Anxiety

Cilla Pershouse admits she "lost her sense of self" after the birth of her third child, but help came in the unexpected form of a new colleague at her farm - a border collie puppy named Ash Barky.

The discomfort of change can be better than the discomfort of not changing, and living a dissatisfied life. It's a lesson these people learnt through personal experience.

Ava Towers stopped attending school, refusing to get out of the car at drop-off. Her father didn't know what to do, until a specialist team reached out to help.

Many Australians experience obsessive-compulsive disorder and Yasmin Arkinstall is one of them. She's telling her story through a one-person opera.

Twila Whittingham always thought of music as medicine, so when doctors found a pre-cancerous tumour in her breast mid-last year, she knew she would need more than conventional treatment to cope.

From the streets, to the courts, to the halls of power — school strikes may look smaller but students are finding other ways to fight for climate action and a better future.

We asked clinical psychologist Dr Sophie Li, from Old People's Home for Teens, for practical ways to support a teen through wellbeing challenges. These are her tips.

Group chats are more popular than ever, and offer a more intimate form of conversation compared to social media. But unclear rules of engagement can lead to problems.

The "silent walking" trend on TikTok has highlighted how much we rely on audio distractions to get us through the day. But is it a problem?

With one of the most common yet stigmatised mental illnesses, people with borderline personality disorder often feel they are turned away by emergency first responders despite their high suicidal risks. Now experts and advocates want a change on this. 

Mental health disorders among young people have soared by nearly 50 per cent in 15 years, new data shows, as experts warn the health system is struggling to cope with the growing complexity and demand.  

Luke Thomson was known as a confident and outgoing footy coach, so his mates were surprised when he was diagnosed with anxiety and depression.

Although emotions like fear and anxiety originate in your brain, they ultimately travel through your body and make your heart race and your stomach twist, writes Arash Javanbakht.

A lack of doctors trained in treating adult ADHD has led to long waitlists for expensive appointments, with fears those finally reaching out for help are being turned away.

Tony Read has been to the edge and made it back, where many others have not. Once he was able to get help for his mental health, it was "life-changing" — now, he and others are calling for better resourcing for people doing it tough in regional areas.

Barry Vassella's anxiety emerged with the sudden force of a gunshot, overwhelmed by a memory he could not yet decipher, and sparked simply by a log on the ground at a golf course.

New data suggests there's been a dramatic rise in the number of primary school children aged 12 and under suffering from high levels of anxiety.

Rural mental health services say they're 'flat out' amid a spike in people reaching out, as stresses on farms are reportedly higher over the past year.

Farmers have seen new challenges added to their existing pressures in the past 12 months, citing the promised phase-out of live sheep export, the rising cost of production, and livestock markets down on last year.

After a 10-month Senate inquiry handed down recommendations this week, families experiencing school refusal are hopeful their voices are being heard at last.

The most common disorders for women were depression, a specific phobia and post-traumatic stress disorder. For men it was depression, a specific phobia and alcohol abuse. 

Lauren Jackson was granted an exemption to take medicinal cannabis when she made a fairytale comeback to basketball. But its use — both within and outside sport — remains stigmatised while Australia's laws are difficult to understand and navigate.

Fitness trackers are offering increasingly sophisticated data on your sleep, but could they be increasing sleep anxiety? Kate O'Halloran asks the experts.

Scientists in Western Australia will soon be trialling magic mushrooms on people living with depression.

After six months off, Leigh Sales returns to ABC TV as the face of Australian Story. Switching off gave her a new perspective on how news is covered and the impact it's having.