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Troops face mental health risk

A "PROFOUND" number of Diggers returning from operational deployment in Afghanistan will be afflicted with post-traumatic stress disorder, a senior former army commander has warned. Major General John Cantwell, who in 2010 served as commander of Australian forces in the Middle East, told the ABC he... (01-May)

Call for mental health care at mines

Mental health initiatives should be employed as standard safety measures on mine sites along with fluoro shirts and eye protection, a health organisation says. The Australasian Centre for Rural & Remote Mental Health says depression, anxiety and stress remain largely hidden on mining sites desp... (01-May)

Bullied children more likely to self-harm

Children bullied during their early years at school are up to three times more likely to self-harm than classmates when they reach adolescence, a study shows. The risk for self-harm was much higher among children with behavioural or emotional difficulties and those from troubled families. Accordin... (01-May)

Gen Z crying out for mental health support

The decline of the traditional family unit and rise of the internet is having a major impact on the mental well-being of young people and it may fall to schools to educate children in life skills, experts say. Generation Z - categorised as the people born in the early to mid 1990s - has been puttin... (01-May)

Schizophrenia and Autism linked

Scientists have labeled 33 genes as being associated with autism and other related disorders and also found several of these genes to be altered in people with schizophrenia, according to a study published in the journal Cell. Of the 33 genes, 22 were linked to autism for the first time. “By seque... (01-May)

Aboriginal mental health issues common

Aboriginal Victorians are almost twice as likely to have depression or anxiety than non-indigenous people, a state government report shows. A survey on the health of adult indigenous Victorians also found almost one in four Aboriginal people had high or very high psychological distress levels; almo... (01-Apr)

Giving up drugs early in psychosis as effective as meds

Giving up drugs early in psychosis makes about as much difference to the disease course as antipsychotics and should be a priority in psychiatric services, say the authors of a ground-breaking Australian meta-analysis. “During early psychosis there’s a window of opportunity to stop drug use. This... (01-Apr)

Revealed: Mentally ill prisoners wait a year for treatment

Severely mentally ill prisoners are being forced to wait more than a year for appropriate treatment and prison mental health beds are consistently full, in a system described as "totally inadequate". NSW Health data obtained by the Herald shows the state's 90 mental health beds in prisons typica... (01-Apr)

New suicide statistics disturbing

Suicide rates are steadily increasing according to the Causes of Death Report released by the Australia Bureau of Statistics. This report records deaths by suicide for 2010 at 2,361, an increase of 480 deaths from 2007 – a useful baseline year when revised methods in data collection were adopted... (01-Apr)

Kylie's Comment: Community based treatment more effective than hospitals

A new report has provided proof to what many of us in the profession knew to be true – providing treatment to those with a mental illness in the community is far more effective than hospital based care. I’m not saying there isn’t a place for treatment in hospitals for those severely and acutely unw... (01-Apr)