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Women Working In Mental Health Research

MQ Mental Health

In 2014, Dr Andrea Reinecke (UK) developed a life changing intervention for panic disorder that combined CBT and a blood pressure drug into a treatment that only needed to be. Professor Petra Vértes (UK) used genetics to improve understanding of the biological underpinnings of Schizophrenia in 2017.

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Am I Going Through a Nervous Breakdown?

Beautiful Voyager

In the past, mental health experts used many terms such as depression, anxiety, and acute stress disorder to refer to a nervous breakdown. The term is no longer used because it has not been recognized as a mental health disorder by the American Psychiatry Association in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM–5).

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What Are The New Government Guidelines For Children’s Mental Health?

MQ Mental Health

Colette’s work to develop an evidence-based intervention to lower levels of worry and anxiety will inform the development of psychological interventions for stress-related mental health in young people. Another major breakthrough for young people’s mental health came thanks to MQ researcher Colette Hirsch.

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What Are The New Government Guidelines For Children’s Mental Health?

MQ Mental Health

Colette’s work to develop an evidence-based intervention to lower levels of worry and anxiety will inform the development of psychological interventions for stress-related mental health in young people. Another major breakthrough for young people’s mental health came thanks to MQ researcher Colette Hirsch.

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My Mental Health is Bad! Why and What Now?

Stop Abuse Campaign

Emotional and behavioral outcomes may include a propensity towards substance abuse, an inclination to risky or defiant behaviors, anxiety, or depression. When you take care of your mental and emotional health, you improve productivity, foster positive self-esteem, and build better relationships with others. Understand your ACEs.

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R U OK? Focus on Suicide Prevention

Psychological Health Care

According to some experts , surging rates of anxiety and depression, economic decline, job losses, and isolation due to lockdown and social distancing may lead to a 25 per cent increase in Australia’s suicide rate every year for the next five years. Talking about being a burden eg “Things would be better if I wasn’t here.”.

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My Short Stay in a Mental Health Hospital

Beautiful Voyager

Anxiety so strong it tightened my chest to a choking point and made me feel like cutting myself to bleed the anxious feelings out of my system. Yes, one for depression and one for anxiety. One sibling with bipolar disorder and a parent with psychotic depression, neither one chronic. What were my symptoms? Low stress threshold.