Anxiety

Environment
Our kids have questions about climate change. We are giving them answers
A new video series called ‘Climate Kids’ has been launched to help kids (and their parents) combat climate anxiety and feel equipped to take positive action

Health & Medicine
People coming off antidepressants are looking for help online
Tapering off or ‘deprescribing’ antidepressants is a complex process, but without tailored clinical guidelines, some people are turning to their peers instead of their doctors for support.

Health & Medicine
Supporting Australian doctors to help kids with anxiety
While there is guidance for health professionals to identify anxiety in adults, our new Australian-first guidelines are designed to help treat and manage anxiety in our young people

Health & Medicine
Do we think about anxiety and depression differently now?
A new study investigates whether there’s been concept creep around how we use the terms ‘anxiety’ and ‘depression’

Health & Medicine
Nervous nineties or nerves-of-steel nineties?
Cricketers, on the verge of scoring a century, are often described as being in the ‘nervous nineties’ – a new study uses data to sort fact from fiction

Health & Medicine
When kids get stressed out by the stress of others
Empathy is vital for social functioning. However, new research demonstrates that children who are particularly empathic are also more anxious

Health & Medicine
Transforming mental health care through lived experience
By co-designing mental health care with people who have lived experience, researchers aim to rebuild Australia’s system

Sciences & Technology
Life after the pandemic for your (new) pet
As some of us take the first steps to returning to life after lockdown, there are steps that can help your pet adapt to the new normal – especially if social distancing is the only life they’ve known

Health & Medicine
Why we should worry more about anxiety in older adults
COVID-19 has caused particular psychological stress to older adults from heightened risk of severe illness to social restrictions. We need to know more about anxiety, a ‘silent killer’

Health & Medicine
What actually works for anxiety and depression?
Researchers have written user-friendly guides to the actual evidence for a host of treatments and therapies aimed at anxiety and depression