Today
How Alec’s life turned from hopeless to full of hope
Pervasive feelings of isolation and sadness are drowning the hopes of young adults, but one program has been shown to turn that around.
- Julie Hare
This Month
Psychedelics as a serious investment? These billionaires think so
Australia is among the first countries to use the drugs for treating anxiety, depression and PTSD. A decision in the United States could be pivotal.
- Michael Smith
July
‘Old people sometimes scare me’, says Gen Z
Today’s teens know they are missing out on some of the fun, but are baffled previous generations did so many adult things so young says psychologist Jean Twenge.
- Julie Hare
Stressed teens would rather finish school with no ATAR than sit exams
Students at co-educational schools reported the highest scores on emotional and mental wellbeing, and girls-only school students the lowest.
- Julie Hare
America’s most powerful export may be anxiety
What if mental health cannot be separated from culture, and cultural forces are making young English-speakers unhappy?
- Derek Thompson
- Analysis
- The Breakdown
Mark Zuckerberg shows he is, like a teen, desperate to be cool
The man who has everything is still stung by criticism and anxious for validation online, proving his critics right about Meta’s effects on mental health.
- Nick Bonyhady
Mental health crisis for young women started in 2012, study finds
More research has found a strong link between the emergence of social media and depression, anxiety and self-harm.
- Julie Hare
June
Jobs are booming in this industry, but the cause is rooted in sadness
A mental health services recruiter says demand for employer assistance programs has skyrocketed since the pandemic as people battle cost of living pressures.
- Gus McCubbing
- Exclusive
- Workplace
Employers lose more than 655,000 days of work to mental health claims
Increased awareness around mental health and the rising cost of living are contributing to a big jump in workers’ compensation for mental health injuries.
- Euan Black
The average retiree has 7800 days to fill. Here’s how to find your passion
Researchers at Macquarie University have identified the “big five” activities that mentally healthy people do every day.
- Lucy Dean
The trouble with psychedelics
The gold-standard methodology for testing a drug’s efficacy, the double-blind trial, does not work for substances that affect the mind.
- Jonathan Lambert
How to dementia-proof your life in your 40s
Research shows that this decade plays a crucial role in predicting your future brain health – and nobody knows why.
- Charlotte Lytton
May
- Opinion
- Opinion
Gentrified mental health has undermined access for the seriously ill
The high costs and limitations of access are unquestionably privileging the privileged.
- Updated
- Tanveer Ahmed
- Opinion
- Mental disorders
Is it time to stop talking about mental illness?
I believe many young people are being encouraged to frame normal experiences as psychiatric conditions. There are even financial motivations.
- Peter Quarry
Parents unite to end ‘daily battle with kids’ over phones, social media
Banning phones in schools is only part of the solution. What happens at home is even more important.
- Julie Hare
Do you worry that you worry too much?
Well, that’s OK. Worrying is an essential part of life says Samir Chopra, who provides a rewarding and challenging alternative theory to facile self-help books.
- Becca Rothfeld
April
- Analysis
- Perspective
Why Schizophrenia no longer has to be a life sentence
Until the 1950s, there was no effective therapy and painful experimental treatments, such as brain surgery and sulphur injections, failed. That’s all changed.
- Jill Margo
- Opinion
- Opinion
Drugs and mental illness a fatal mix
It is not uncommon for mental health patients to fall off the radar of authorities. But the dangers explode when sufferers come into contact with illegal drugs.
- Tanveer Ahmed
The kids aren’t all right. Are phones really to blame?
In his new book Jonathan Haidt claims phones are the cause of the international epidemic of adolescent mental illness. And with that one tricky word, “cause,” he opens himself up to what’s likely to be a world of pain.
- Judith Warner
March
The nine lessons for happiness everyone should know
Just like maintaining physical fitness, you have to keep working on your mental health if you want to keep feeling the benefits, research shows.
- Gwyneth Rees
