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Managing your mental health requires more than a monthly appointment.

Ready for resolutions? A psychologist recommends you prioritise this

If someone told you all you needed to do to maintain physical health was visit a doctor once a month, you’d laugh. So why do we think it’s true of our mental health?

  • Ahona Guha

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Johanna Barry with daughter Makenzie, who suffered night terrors and hallucinations which her parents attributed to the asthma drug she was taking at the time.

This asthma drug is taken by millions. Now scientists have found it in the brain

The findings, presented at a conference in Texas last week, have raised pressure on Australian authorities to better warn patients about the risks of montelukast.

  • Angus Thomson
Former premier Daniel Andrews with the now premier, Jacinta Allan.

Labor promised to fix our mental health crisis. I made the mistake of believing them

Three years after accepting all 74 recommendations from the Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System, the government’s actions aren’t tracking well.

  • Simon Katterl
Trigger warnings have become ubiquitous to television, podcasts and social media posts.

The biggest problem with trigger warnings? They’re quite triggering

Though intentions may be good, trigger warnings have become more about the people making warnings than those assumed to need them.

  • Bianca Denny
Psychologists say Medicare rules around GP referrals are preventing people from getting help.

It’s a nice idea, but more therapy won’t fix our growing mental health crisis

As a psychologist, it is sad to see an increase in self-interest among some who perpetuate the idea that more sessions is the only antidote to our problems.

  • Bianca Denny
The 21st-century dog is more likely to be a pampered “fur baby” who sleeps under the doona, dines on organic pasture-raised lamb with ancient grains, enjoys, or endures, spa baths, and is possibly on Prozac.

Yes, they make us feel better. But your pet is not your therapist

When did we get to the point that people come second to animals and a human needs to explain why they don’t wish to share space with your pet?

  • Bianca Denny
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Hunter Karam.

Hunter had friends and a busy job. He still felt something was missing

It’s been described as a “silent epidemic”; now a NSW parliamentary inquiry will shine a spotlight on the distress triggered by a lack of social connection.

  • Megan Gorrey
A push is under way for the government to introduce a federal human rights charter and explicitly outlaw mental health-related vilification.

‘Too-hard basket’: The workplace stigma against one in five Australians

One in four bosses would not hire someone with depression or bipolar disorder, according to a report that has revealed the depth of mental health discrimination in the workplace.

  • Broede Carmody
More Australian men are going to therapy these days, but what are they talking about?

What are Australian men talking about in therapy?

From toxic masculinity to parenting issues, these are the six most common topics men are bringing to the therapy room.

  • Staff Writer
Men play a pivotal role in each other’s mental health.

Men need to be better at helping men. Their lives depend on it

As a society, we have made progress in talking about men’s mental health. But not nearly enough.

  • Sarah Berry

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