Mental Health

Isolation and loneliness are back among the top factors for elevated suicide risk following the COVID-19 pandemic, a major report reveals. Cost of living and

Female and gender-diverse teenagers are more likely to experience worsening mental health during high school than their male classmates. A study of more than

Psychiatry has topped the list of extreme fee-charging medical specialties, with those seeking vital mental health care among the hardest hit. A report from

Australian men are being urged to reach out for help after research revealed a high number are facing mental challenges impacting their relationships, productivity and quality

Richard Schweizer considers himself lucky. The mental health policy worker, who lives with schizophrenia, depression and anxiety, has had access to wraparound

Psychological injuries weighing on Australia's largest workers' compensation scheme have prompted bleak warnings it will collapse without reform. Businesses

Jamila Rizvi and Rosie Waterland are all too familiar with what it means to be unwell. Rizvi was diagnosed with a rare brain tumour at 31. Eight years on she

Paul Warren remembers being flung in the air in the rough mountainous terrain of the Baloch Valley in Afghanistan. Then he looked down to see his severed leg.[subscribe]

A mind-altering medication chemically akin to ketamine will be made cheaper to improve the lives of Australians suffering from treatment-resistant depression - the first new

Caring for mental health is hitting young people hardest in the hip pocket, with algorithmic social media bleeding into their lives and a cost-of-living crisis weighing on

Small business owners simply don't have time for mental health. They're head of operations, head of marketing, head of sales. They keep customers happy

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