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[Link] I live with 28 other men — and my wife. The power of connection changed everything for me

Read: 30/1/2022 www.abc.net.au

COVID has brought to light just how traumatic disconnection can be, especially for young people. Loneliness, after all, has been described as its own sort of epidemic.

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[Link] Sam lives in Tasmania but has to fly to Melbourne to get the ADHD help he needs

Read: 6/12/2021 www.abc.net.au

Tasmania has just one specialist ADHD clinic servicing the whole state and only three psychiatrists that will take ADHD patients. For Mr Mitchell, it meant he resorted to visiting a psychiatrist in Victoria to manage his disorder.

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[Link] What to Do if Your ADHD Medication Messes With Your Appetite and Body Image

Read: 18/11/2021 www.vice.com

When Spencer Jardine was 15, she was diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and prescribed treatment in the form of Adderall.

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[Link] This Couple Survived the Unite the Right Car Attack. The Trauma Tore Them Apart.

Read: 11/11/2021 www.vice.com

On the day of the violent “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, Marcus Martin wore his red-and-white Jordans.

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[Link] Natasha was told she was being manipulative. But she had a misunderstood disorder

Read: 13/10/2021 www.abc.net.au

Natasha Swingler has lived with complex mental illness from a young age. It would take some time until she would learn of her diagnosis — borderline personality disorder, or BPD.

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[Link] $40m psychedelic medicine institute launches in Melbourne

Read: 30/7/2021 www.smh.com.au

A world-first global research institute that aims to develop new pharmaceutical-grade psychedelic medicine to treat mental health disorders is launching in Melbourne on Friday.

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[Link] ‘No One’s Ever Talked to Me About This Before’

Read: 30/7/2021 www.nytimes.com

Social media creators are helping women and people of color identify possible symptoms of A.D.H.D., a disorder most often diagnosed in white boys. “When I was a kid, I had the sense things were more difficult for me,” Tiffany Bui recalled.

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