How People With Mental Illness Can Weather-Proof Finances for Bumpy Spending Patterns
Melbourne street artist Akemi Ito* once maxed out a credit card in a single day buying $3500 of homewares online.
The Australian Scientists Cracking the Genetic Code of Clinical Depression
Two-thirds of Australians with clinical depression have used multiple antidepressants to manage their condition, the nation's largest study on...
Medical Staff Mental Illness: Getting Help With No Fear
An expert advisory committee will examine how regulatory bodies can seek to protect patient safety without discouraging health practitioners from...
An Outline of Recovery Based, Psychology Focussed Therapeutic Groups in an Inpatient Mental Health Unit
The Adult Mental Health Unit (AMHU) at The Canberra Hospital is an acute inpatient unit that provides treatment for people with severe mental health...
Understanding and Addressing the Causes of Behaviour
Dementia Support Australia (DSA) consultants often find that the smallest changes can have the biggest impact on a person’s wellbeing. Just like they...
Mental Illness Need Not Be a Death Sentence, Allan Fels Warns
People with a serious mental illness are dying on average 14 to 23 years earlier than other Australians, prompting a push for a national focus on...
Parenting With a Mental Illness
When you meet 34-year-old mother-of-two Narelle* for the first time, you’re not actually meeting her, but her ‘representative’ as she tells it.
13 Signs of Potential Mental Illness in a Child
Most parents have an instantaneous desire to protect their children. We tend to our children’s needs: If an unexplained rash appears, we see the...
Is Increased Mental Illness A Consequence Of Sobriety?
A common theme amongst people recovering from substance addiction is the development of increased mental health issues such as anxiety disorders...
Calls To Review Antipsychotic Use In Kids
An expert in child psychiatry says no child under the age of six should be prescribed an antipsychotic and would like to see a review of these...