People are living in the community with a chronic mental illness, but are not necessarily being hospitalised, writes Sandy Jeffs, a Melbourne author and SANE Australia speaker
Mental illness
Using technology to help young people and ‘mental wealth’
Receiving quality mental health care at the right time is uncommon. Mental health can be both an economic and moral issue, and exciting technological possibilities exist with which it can be combated, writes Jane Burns.
Why pot really is making kids sick: the new scientific link
Cannabis use accelerates the onset of psychotic illnesses, according to a new study. Meta-analysis of data collected over 30 years, from over 20,000 patients, concludes the “age at onset of psychosis for cannabis users was 2.7 years younger than for nonusers”.
Mental health behind bars (part two): why women prisoners are set up to fail
Incidents of mental illness in our prison system are disproportionately high — particularly among female inmates. In part two of a special report into the NSW female prison population, Inga Ting examines how they find themselves behind bars and why they are disadvantaged while they are there…
Mental health behind bars: why women prisoners are set up to fail
Incidents of mental illness in our prison system are disproportionately high — particularly among female inmates. In part one of a special report into the NSW female prison population, Inga Ting examines how they find themselves behind bars and why they are disadvantaged while they are there.
Why leadership is a form of mental illness
Dilbert founder Scott Adams explains why leaders around the world are “undeniably bat-spit crazy”. Basically every country who is an enemy is crazy. And every country — apart from Switzerland — has enemies, so all leaders must be crazy. Geddit?
Why we need to stop saying the word ‘retarded’
We need a new civil rights movement, writes chairman of the Special Olympics, Timothy Shriver, and this time its to crush the rampant prejudices held against people with mental illness. ‘Retard’ shouldn’t be a hilarious insult for your friends.
The befuddling world of brains: left or right?
High school science classes taught you that the left and right handed sides of the brain are very different, but in reality they are far more entwined and reliant on each other. So what happens when you add mental illness or brain injury to one hemisphere?
China fails to live up to its aspirations
If China wants to be regarded as a civilised and important nation than it shouldn’t execute foreign citizens who are suffering mental illness, like it did with Akmal Shaikh, writes George Pitcher.
NT police officer charged over death of mentally ill man
The justice system will finally re-examine the use of police force in the death of filmmaker Bob Plasto, and reassess the training of NT police officers in dealing with mentally ill people.
The Nelson diagnosis: does Turnbull suffer from narcissistic personality disorder?
Brendan Nelson has diagnosed the leader of his Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull with narcissistic personality disorder. Crikey asked personality disorder expert Professor Henry Jackson if the diagnosis is accurate.
Schizophrenia and creativity: it’s in the genes
A gene mutation that leads to increased risk of schizophrenia is now showing a relationship with increased creativity according to new research. Perhaps that explains the artistic temperament.
Guy Rundle: Lateline and the ‘Latvian hooker’ index
Following Godwin Grech’s hospitalisation, there has been some soul-searching in the media about putting manifestly wrong people in front of the camera. Just ask Tony Jones.
Veterans of secret psychedelic tests want answers
Former American soldiers are filing a suit against the CIA and US Army, claiming they were used as human lab rats to test hundreds of chemical and biological substances in the ’70s.
A win for Victoria’s Human Rights Charter
The tale of Victoria’s first successful human rights claim. What could this mean at a Federal level?
Tasmanian children are second class citizens
Tasmania’s children and young people are second class citizens compared with their peers in Victoria, writes Greg Barns.
Privacy laws keep psych patients’ families out of the loop
Most Australians would not be aware that when someone is admitted to the emergency ward of a hospital after self harming, they will not necessarily see a psychiatrist before they are discharged, their family may not be contacted and they may be discharged alone, reports Eleri Harris.
