Anxiety

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

Business & Economics

Rates of diagnosed mental illness soar

Mental concerns like depression and anxiety are now the most common serious illness among Australians, with rates among women rising to 20 per cent