Veterans are at higher risk of mental illness than the rest of the Australian population. Many of them are seeking help, but the way care is provided to this group must consider their unique needs.
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Traumatic experiences affect people closest to the victims.
Cannabis use is common among trauma survivors, and may improve some of the symptoms of those with PTSD.
Remembering past events, experiences or emotions is a big part of being human. But if dwelling on the past is distressing, here's what you can do to help.
Research shows that ketamine can produce long-term reductions in symptoms of treatment-resistant depression.
A recent review found moral injury was experienced by a wide range of people in different professions, including journalists, police, teachers and soldiers.
The brain can do a lot, but it is vulnerable, especially to traumatic events. Over the years, researchers have learned the unique ways in which it is damaged by experiencing or witnessing trauma.
Teen survivors of school shootings face unique complications and challenges. In the wake of two suicides by teen survivors of the shootings in Parkland, Fla, a child psychiatrist exlpains.
In a landmark ruling by a Victorian court, a former Age journalist has successfully sued for damages after consistently covering traumatic cases in her job.
The media frenzy surrounding George Pell's conviction may force victims of child sexual abuse to relive their own trauma.
Some 80% of young people will experience a traumatic event by the time they become an adult. Here's how teachers and parents can support them.
How books can help veterans overcome physical and mental trauma.
Mass shootings bring terror in ways that people watching from afar can only imagine. And yet, society at large is also affected, a trauma psychiatrist writes.
To some extent, shell-shock still shapes our understanding of PTSD today.
Quetiapine is an antipsychotic drug to treat severe mental illness, but it makes people feel sleepy, so has also been used as a sleeping pill – by prescription and illicitly.
The deaths of 11 worshippers at the Tree of Life synagogue filled people with sadness and fear. Transforming the grief into meaning is very difficult, a trauma psychologist writes, but ultimately healing.
After 9/11, academic investigation seemed to seek out trauma rather than signs of resilience.
Dealing with graphic videos and images can harm journalists' mental health.
The news that a former moderator is suing Facebook over unsafe work practices suggests it's time we finally took the mental health of moderators seriously.
PTSD is a relatively modern term, but the symptoms are as old as civilisation itself.
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Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Wayne State University
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Professor of Communication, Deakin University
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Program Manager, Journalism, RMIT University
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Chair of Clinical Psychology, University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, Deputy Director Phoenix Australia Centre for Post-traumatic Mental Health, University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in Media and Communications, University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in English, The Open University
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Associate Professor at The Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use, University of Sydney
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Professor and Chair of International Relations, University of Bath
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Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Yale University
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Senior research fellow, Charles Sturt University
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Research Scientist, BC Centre on Substance Use and Assistant Professor in the Division of AIDS, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia
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PhD student in Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia
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Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Wayne State University
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Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology, Monash University
