Mental Health

Average wait times for ambulances in Tasmania have exceeded worst-case scenario projections, despite extra resourcing, with many staff wanting to change careers, new survey results show. 

As winter isolation sets in, community choirs are providing connection, belonging and emotional support.

While it's a bit of fun for some, the social media trend known as looksmaxxing can have major impacts on young men's physical and mental health.

A progress report on a major mental health inquiry sparks fears that a major housing commitment has fallen to the wayside.

When Tammy Shipley felt herself sliding into psychosis, she made a heartbreaking decision: She walked into a police station and asked to be arrested, believing prison would keep her safe. Here's what happened next.

While gardening alone is not a treatment for mental illness, a growing body of evidence links it with higher levels of mental wellbeing and life satisfaction.

Victims of alleged abuse at a Queensland mental health facility have been left disappointed after the state's health minister did not offer a public apology.

Specialists from war-torn Ukraine are heading to regional New South Wales for trauma response and rehabilitation training.  

The WA health minister and director of the state's country health service have unreservedly apologised to a 17-year-old left in an emergency room for 116 hours waiting for specialised mental health care.

Fremantle Dockers midfielder Nathan O'Driscoll says he has received "nothing but love" after posting on social media about his struggles with anxiety and how he contemplated taking his own life.

WorkSafe charges Northern Territory Health with failing to comply with health and safety duties over the death of a mental health in-patient at Royal Darwin Hospital in 2022.

A trusted assistant, two doctors, a middleman and the "Ketamine Queen": How Matthew Perry's inner circle preyed on the Friends star's addiction before his death.

Too many Australians still see dementia as an inevitability, according to new data, but there is a list of steps you can take to reduce the risks.

An inquest into the death of a NSW Police recruit who was less than three months into the job hears differing opinions about whether it was related to his work.

A coroner has found that the death of an RAAF serviceman could have been prevented, including when he left a military health centre during a mental health crisis. Warning: This story contains discussion of suicide and mental health issues.

From footy tips to Taylor Swift bets, teenagers are being lured into gambling. Almost 34 per cent of Australian teens gamble and everyone from teachers, experts, to the young people themselves are sounding the alarm.

Motherhood has a way of making family patterns impossible to ignore. Suddenly you start asking questions you never asked before.   

Jess Yugovich is among the Australians trying MDMA-assisted psychotherapy after being diagnosed with PTSD, as highly regulated facilities process the drug for therapeutic use.

Kalman Tal's loved ones have told of their distress at how the 66-year-old's leg was amputated in a public park. Farm worker John Yalu has today been sentenced for manslaughter.

A world-first research project is aiming to prevent family and intimate partner homicides with similar strategies to those being used to tackle terrorism and lone-actor attacks.