The erection of barriers and nets at public sites with a high incidence of suicide results in far fewer deaths – at the site and nearby locations.
Jane Pirkis
Installing barriers and safety nets at public sites with a high incidence of suicide can reduce the number of deaths at these sites by more than 90%.
Lance Franklin has been ruled out of Saturday’s qualifying final due to a mental health condition.
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Lance ‘Buddy’ Franklin’s story highlights not only the persistent stigma surrounding mental illness, but the potential of sport to help tackle it.
Melancholia may be a distinct type of depression, with its own clinical signs and symptoms.
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Melancholia has a strong genetic contribution, so it’s largely biologically underpinned rather than caused by social factors (stressors) or psychological factors, such as personality style.
Laugh, it’s Tim Minchin.
Katy Walsh
Goth teenagers are just like other teenagers the world over – they get depressed, they laugh, they’re creative – so why do we pigeonhole?
The idea of a common biological cause for the association between psychological distress and creativity is clearly an attractive one.
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Researchers have suggested a new theory for why neurotic unhappiness and creativity are often found in the same person. But is the assumption that creative people are more neurotic actually true?
Constantly lost in thought? You may want to make the most of it.
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Are you a neurotic who overthinks just about everything? Congratulations, it may mean that you could become hugely successful in a creative job.
Sandra Bland’s body is removed from a Texas jail.
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With the rate of suicide on the rise, it’s time to train law enforcement officials to recognize the signs of mental illness.
The only bad influence was on the kids’ fashion sense.
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New research shows that depression doesn’t spread between teenagers but having mentally healthy friends can protect you.
How do you feel?
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Smartphones could be used to detect the behavior changes that are associated with depression.
Aged care residents are three times more likely to have suicidal thoughts than their house-bound peers.
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More than half (52%) of aged care residents have symptoms of depression, compared with 10-15% of older people living in the community.
A difficult place to come down from.
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Out on a high, but what the road to retirement for top sports stars can be quite a come down.
A diagnostic label such as borderline personality disorder, with its stigma and propensity to invalidate the person’s suffering, clearly has many negative impacts.
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Diagnostic labels usually describe symptoms, attempt to answer the question of what is wrong, and lead to a treatment plan. But “borderline personality disorder” fails on all three counts.
Unhappy pills.
Erich Ferdinand
Combination drugs are considered an innovation of India’s medicines industry but they are not as safe as they should be.
Women planning a family who abruptly stop using antidepressants may be putting themselves in harm’s way.
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Research published today has found an association between commonly used antidepressants and birth defects. But pregnant women face greater harms from stopping their medication abruptly.
MRIs of 9,000 people have shown that depression shrinks parts of the brain.
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Brain damage is caused by persistent depression rather than being a predisposing factor for it, researchers have finally concluded after decades of unconfirmed hypothesising.
Depression isn’t a single condition with a single cause.
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While there may be a connection between inflammation and depression, one doesn’t necessarily lead to the other.
How happy days can be remembered as they really were.
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A study has shown that it is possible to lift rats out of depression by reactivating happy memories. But could it work in humans?
School shootings have future consequences for kids.
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What happens to kids who survive school shootings? What are some of the damaging effects they are left to cope with?
Two-thirds of mothers who had mental health problems in their teens and 20s also had postnatal depression.
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Postnatal depression affects around one in six women. In this sense, it’s the most common complication of pregnancy.
School bullying takes its toll later in life too.
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Children who were bullied had more than a two-fold increase in odds of depression later in life compared with children not victimised by their peers.