Anxiety

Charlie's 12-year-old daughter is so anxious that she bites her nails until they bleed. Here are some ways parents can help children in distress.

Primary-school students around Australia are tackling their reading anxiety by reading to dogs thanks to volunteer program Story Dogs.

Amy Poehler reprises her role as Joy in the upcoming Inside Out 2, a film that explores the changing emotions of adolescence — and she says complex ones like anxiety can help teach us more about connection.

With 38 per cent of Australian students classed as "chronically absent", Alesco Secondary College, in the Hunter region of New South Wales, offers students a flexible approach and an alternative to mainstream schooling.

With a perfect biological and psychological storm stealing the slumber of teenagers, experts are calling for sleep to become a mainstay of their mental health treatment.

By the time she was 19, Rikki Hoyland had already been sexually assaulted twice. The Queensland youth worker represents a new generation of adolescents experiencing sexual assault at rates never seen before.

Considering the rise in mental health crises in young women, a new approach is desperately needed.

After decades as a big coffee drinker, Jesse recently gave it away, and says he is already noticing health improvements. Experts agree there are a range of benefits to ditching the daily grind.

Patients and workers within the health system say the mistreatment of people with self-inflicted wounds is "normalised" due to a lack of training on best practice.

Girls who go through puberty early are at higher risk of anxiety and depression than their later-developing counterparts. Why does this happen, and how can parents help kids through this time?

Childhood maltreatment is responsible for up to 41 per cent of common mental health conditions including anxiety, depression, substance abuse, self-harm and suicide attempts, according to a new study.

Helping teenagers navigate their mental health is a job for entire communities — not just parents. But how do we support them best? Send us your questions and we'll do our best to find the answers.

'High functioning' can be a loaded term but in relation to anxiety, a clinical psychologist says it's use can have positive outcomes. 

Selena Gomez has opened up about her struggles with mental illness and her journey to self-acceptance while on a panel at the SXSW festival in the United States. Gomez has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and the autoimmune disease lupus. 

It's like a vinyl record playing the same part of the song over and over. With a record, this is usually because of a scratch. Why we overthink is a little more complicated, writes Kirsty Ross.

From mood swings and anxiety to full-blown psychosis, many women experience significant changes in their mental health in the years leading up to menopause, but experts say a holistic approach can be key to alleviating the symptoms.

What does it take to engage the kids who, for many reasons, have failed to find their place in the mainstream system? This school may have found the answer. 

According to new research perinatal depression and anxiety is one of the leading causes of maternal death in Australia. It's a shocking statistic. How can it be turned around?

PTSD, anxiety and depression dogged Michael Jefferies after he left the military, but he was able to start healing in an unexpected place.

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.

Mental load is burden created by the unseen, exhausting unpaid labour associated with juggling work, family and running a household. But there are ways to ease the pressure.

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.