September/October 2009

The disunited states of being

Date Published: Thursday, 29 October 2009
Source: SMH - online

Coping with dissociative identity disorder is nothing like in a television show.
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Suicide leads death cause for under 35s

Date Published: Wednesday, 28 October 2009
Source: ABC - News

Mental health experts say suicide is now the leading cause of death for men and women under the age of 35.
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1 in 4 teens live with mental illness

Date Published: Thursday, 22nd October 2009
Source: ABC - News

A report into the "state of young people" shows disturbing levels of mental and physical illness among Australian teenagers.
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Study to probe bipolar, schizophrenia links

Date Published: Monday, 12th October 2009
Source: News.com.au

A MAJOR Australian study will seek to answer an emerging and controversial question, whether schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are two faces of the same psychotic illness.
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Australian Advisors Help Guide Innovative International Mental Health Initiative

Date Published: Monday, 12th October 2009
Source: AAP

Mentalympians™ announced today, on this World Mental Health Day, its inaugural advisory group, consisting of twelve advisors based in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Scotland and the United States of America.
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Mental health program going into primary schools

Date Published: Monday, 5th October 2009
Source: ABC - News

Children are the focus of a new campaign with the Federal Government committing more than $12 million to KidsMatter, which aims to improve the mental health and wellbeing of Australian primary and preschool-aged children.
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Sydney centre to tackle youth mental illness

Date Published: Monday, 28 September 2009
Source: ABC - News

The University of Sydney and the New South Wales Government are opening a $16 million youth mental health centre in Sydney for people aged between 12 and 25.
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Many missing in the rush for affordable psychological care

Date Published: Saturday, 26 September 2009
Source: Sydney Morning Herald 

"Andrew Robb, the senior Liberal politician, has performed a valuable public service in admitting to his depression.  A NSW District Court judge, also a depression sufferer, spoke publicly about the illness at a recent international conference of judges, though fear of triggering challenges to his decisions prompted a request for anonymity in the press." 
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Cannabis and the teen brain

Date Published: Wednesday, 9th September 2009
Source: ABC - Life Matters

Associate Professor Dan Lubman from the Orygen Research Centre is looking at the effect of cannabis on the teen brain and has come up with some very interesting preliminary findings.
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