Mental Health
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Health & Medicine
Olympians shouldn’t pay a punishing mental price for gold
As we head into the Paris Olympics, the mental health of elite athletes is finally becoming less stigmatised and that can only be a good thing
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Health & Medicine
Your cold house is bad for your mental health
New research finds that the poorest Australians in the worst health are living in the coldest homes during Australian winter and it’s putting their mental health at risk
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Health & Medicine
The young people getting nature on prescription
The early results of a new trial on ‘nature prescribing’ show promise for helping young people with mild mental illness
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Arts & Culture
No bandwidth to think is the cost of being time poor
Cyber time poverty can affect all of us as distractions from social media, work messages and 24-hour news, but we can fight back
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Education
BMX teaches a valuable lesson: Success requires hard work and failure
BMX bike riding goes beyond physical fitness; enhancing mental health, social connectedness and personal growth
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Politics & Society
Opinion
What the Bondi Junction tragedy tells us about compulsory treatment
How should we balance public safety with the rights of people with a mental illness to make decisions about their own wellbeing?
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Health & Medicine
Too many people die after leaving prison
The high rate of death soon after release from jail is tragic, but also avoidable. This urgently needs a coordinated, whole-of-government response
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Health & Medicine
Is menopause bad for your mental health?
A new Lancet series challenges the long-held view that links menopause and poor mental health – finding no evidence of a universal or uniform increase in risk
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Health & Medicine
People with experience of mental health conditions should be paid to help others
The expertise of people with lived experience of mental health conditions should be employed to help turbocharge system-wide reform
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Business & Economics
Australia’s young people are getting lonelier
Younger Australians are more likely than their parents or grandparents to feel alone in the world, finds the annual HILDA survey