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Latest news: Mental Illness

‘Horrific’ triple-zero calls mounted during mass attack

‘Horrific’ triple-zero calls mounted during mass attack

Ambulance officers responded to up to 4000 calls for assistance on the day of a horror mass stabbing attack in the Bondi Junction shopping centre.

Cop felt she was 'going to die' pursuing mass killer

Cop felt she was 'going to die' pursuing mass killer

Cop felt she was 'going to die' pursuing mass killer

Cop felt she was 'going to die' pursuing mass killer

A senior police officer defeated her fears and kept cool as she faced down a knife-wielding man during a shopping mall stabbing rampage.

Funding for depression treatment breaks 30-year drought

Funding for depression treatment breaks 30-year drought

Funding for depression treatment breaks 30-year drought

Funding for depression treatment breaks 30-year drought

A novel approach to treating depression derived from a popular club drug offers hope to tens of thousands of Australians living with the chronic mental illness.

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Cost of mental healthcare stacking up on troubled youth

Cost of mental healthcare stacking up on troubled youth

Steeply rising prices for mental healthcare appointments hurt young people the most, adding to the psychological burden while enduring a cost-of-living crisis.

PM accused of 'condemning young people' at health pitch

PM accused of 'condemning young people' at health pitch

A protester has heckled the prime minister over the government's record on climate change while he was announcing big spending plans for youth mental health.

Plea to help unlock common condition's genetic secrets

Plea to help unlock common condition's genetic secrets

Australians living with the nation's most common mental health condition are being enlisted to help unlock its genetic secrets.

Public mental health system 'overwhelmed' as staff quit

Public mental health system 'overwhelmed' as staff quit

Psychiatrists are demanding a big, one-off pay increase as they face off in court against a state government refusing to budge.

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Alarm at rise in suicide rate among Indigenous people

Alarm at rise in suicide rate among Indigenous people

Alarm at rise in suicide rate among Indigenous people

Alarm at rise in suicide rate among Indigenous people

Indigenous Australians die by suicide at three times the rate of non-Indigenous according to figures that may understate the true number of deaths.

Mental health plan to protect both doctors and patients

Mental health plan to protect both doctors and patients

Mental health plan to protect both doctors and patients

Mental health plan to protect both doctors and patients

Unprecedented levels of stress, anxiety and burnout have prompted the peak body for doctors to make health workplaces hospitable for practitioners and patients.

Double mental health beds, coroner tells government

Double mental health beds, coroner tells government

Double mental health beds, coroner tells government

Double mental health beds, coroner tells government

The NT government should urgently fund the doubling of mental health beds, a coroner says, after finding that a Tiwi Island mother died because of “bed block”.

Resignations puts private mental health care in play

Resignations puts private mental health care in play

Resignations puts private mental health care in play

Resignations puts private mental health care in play

Dozens of public health specialist resignations remain in play as data outlines how few have rescinded their threat to quit the system.

Nurses join psychs demanding urgent mental health boost

Nurses join psychs demanding urgent mental health boost

Nurses join psychs demanding urgent mental health boost

Nurses join psychs demanding urgent mental health boost

After a stack of public psychiatrists signalled they would resign, nurses are urging a state government to prevent the mental health sector from crumbling.

Man with 'sexsomnia' cleared of rape after jury warning

Man with 'sexsomnia' cleared of rape after jury warning

Man with 'sexsomnia' cleared of rape after jury warning

Man with 'sexsomnia' cleared of rape after jury warning

Jurors have found a man diagnosed with "sexsomnia" not guilty of raping a woman in his sleep after being warned against debating possible sex crime laws.

'Opportune' ads lure quitting interstate psychiatrists

'Opportune' ads lure quitting interstate psychiatrists

'Opportune' ads lure quitting interstate psychiatrists

'Opportune' ads lure quitting interstate psychiatrists

Dissatisfied public hospital psychiatrists who have quit over pay and conditions are being enticed across the border with a job-ad blitz in major newspapers.

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Wards shut as fears mount for mass psychiatrist walkout

Psychiatrists have begun to walk away from their jobs in the public system over an intensifying wage dispute which threatens to cause significant bed closures.

Last-ditch bid to stop psychiatrists quitting en masse

Replacing psychiatrists with nurses and counsellors will not lower standards, state leaders insist, as crisis plans are drawn up for looming resignations.

Doctors warned 'aggressive' tactic will impact families

Families of people with poor mental health will bear the brunt of chaos caused by psychiatrists resigning as experts warn the public system is failing patients.

Major study sheds light on depression's genetic links

Tens of thousands of Australians helped contribute to the world's largest study into depression genetics, generating hope for more tailored treatments.

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EDs face surge of patients with psychiatrist exodus

Emergency departments could bear the brunt of housing large numbers of mental health patients after 60 per cent of one state's psychiatrists threatened to quit.

Call before shooting 'not satisfactory', coroner finds

The conduct of a social worker who spoke to a suicidal man hours before he died in a confrontation with police was not satisfactory, a coroner has found.

Children of asylum seekers on 'trajectories of risk'

Children of asylum seekers who are still in limbo with their visa status in Australia carry the emotional burdens of their parents, researchers have found.

Man avoids jail for 'bizarre' urination on Woolies meat

Further jail has been spared for a man who urinated on meat at an inner-city store with the 22-year-old to be treated for mental health issues in the community.

'Rot in hell': family anger at train station killer

A Canadian with schizophrenia has faced the distraught family of a stranger he killed in an unprovoked attack after they got off a train at the same station.

Young people's anxiety soars over cost of living

The percentage of young Australians worrying about the cost of living has more than doubled in two years and it is now their biggest concern, a survey suggests.

Warning Australians' data at risk in social media ban

Global tech giant Meta and X owner Elon Musk warn the federal government's push to ban people younger than 16 from social media will affect all Australians.

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