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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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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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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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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Read: 3/11/2021 getpocket.com
According to addiction expert Dr. Anna Lembke, our smartphones are making us dopamine junkies, with each swipe, like and tweet feeding our habit. So how do we beat our digital dependency?
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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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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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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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