Mental Health

Stressed, bullied and burnt-out workers are being blamed for an unsustainable burden on a compensation scheme designed for people who lose limbs or break bones on the job.

Krish Waje has spent most of her life in fight-or-flight mode. That's how she describes living with anxiety, Australia's most common mental health condition

An underfunded mental health system "driven by crisis" has been highlighted as a stand-off over psychiatrists' pay reaches the courtroom. Successive

A battle involving overworked psychiatrists and an underfunded mental health system will come to a head amid calls for urgent action. NSW's acute mental

The true scale of an "alarming" rise in Indigenous Australians dying by suicide may still be under-reported, with concerns about gaps in data and barriers to culturally

Tailored work and study support can improve the mental health of young people and get them into jobs and university, despite concerns related stress has a negative impact.

Long hours, complex operations, competition to succeed at the highest level and looking after the lives of patients exact a heavy mental toll on Australian doctors.

"Bed block" in the NT health system led to death of a Tiwi Island mother, a coroner has found, recommending that NT government urgently fund the doubling of mental

Sending mentally unwell patients for involuntary treatment in private hospitals remains on the table, after more than 110 public psychiatrists quit. The mental

Nurses are throwing their weight behind psychiatrists' push for a pay rise, fearing patients will die unless public hospital mental health services are seriously improved.

At 13, Clare's child revealed she didn't feel like she belonged in her body. "She said 'mum, I sometimes feel girly, but I know I'm a boy

Patients are waiting nearly four days in emergency departments for dedicated mental health beds and are increasingly being treated in general wards, in developments psychiatrists

A worsening psychiatrist shortage in Australia's largest health system has prompted calls to lift restrictions on overseas-trained doctors. Almost two-thirds

Plans to reform the mental-health system in Australia's most populous state could necessitate replacing hundreds of psychiatrists who are threatening to resign.

Interstate psychiatrists are baulking at $3050 a day to stand in solidarity with quitting NSW colleagues as the state resorts to telehealth to deal with an unfolding mental

When Jess sought help in a mental health crisis, emergency doctors pointed her in the direction of a private hospital. "Even though I was, like, acutely

Hospitals are planning to close several vital specialist mental health beds across a state as more than half of public psychiatrists prepare to resign. One

Australia's most populous state is accused of abandoning mental health patients by failing to meet pay demands to retain psychiatrists. The NSW government

The parents of late US PGA Tour player Grayson Murray have announced the launch of a foundation in their son's honour. Murray, who took his own life at

Growing up without the security blanket of a visa allowing a permanent place in Australia leaves asylum-seeking children with worse mental health because of parental stress,