Psychosis

Meredith Campbell's world was turned upside-down when she started suffering severe depression with psychosis. But she says a little-known therapy helped save her life. 

Jane McRoberts has spent much of her life as an outsider, but after a terrifying episode and a lot of inspiration she got on board with a community she's always longed for.

In the space of 12 months, Natalia derailed her career, ended her relationship, spent $120,000 in savings and lost access to her kids. It started with an ADHD diagnosis.

Alison Watts's grandmother was diagnosed with "puerperal insanity" and institutionalised not long after giving birth to her father. He didn't meet her — or know she was alive — until his early 20s.

A man who kidnapped and stabbed his mother-in-law because he believed she was responsible for his daughter being taken away will spend up to eight years behind bars.

A request by an Adelaide prisoner with schizophrenia to move from a high-security jail to a mental health facility could have been a cry for help before he was released and killed an Adelaide mother, an inquest has heard.

A man who killed his son and dumped his body in an outback mine shaft is one step away from being discharged from a mental health facility, a South Australian court hears.

An Adelaide man with schizophrenia wins a retrial after spending more than three years in custody following an incident in 2017 where he threw a bottle at an elderly man and stole his backpack.

One in five residents in rural aged care nationally is given mind-altering anti-psychotic drugs without a diagnosis, but laws aimed at phasing out the practice have been shelved. Steven Schubert reports.

Little Green Pharma already produces medicinal cannabis, and will now begin supplying psilocybin to Australian drug trials. 

Immersive videos of crawling spiders or dizzying heights delivered via a VR headset are helping people manage their phobias.

A man who assaulted a terrified emergency department nurse as she cowered in the corner of the treating room is banned from the Eyre Peninsula city and from using alcohol or drugs.

Research suggests there are some differences between what drives women and men to kill their children. This will help us make sense of such unfathomable crimes, writes Denise Buiten.

SA's deputy coroner says dual occupancy rooms in psychiatric wards at public hospitals "should no longer be permitted" after one patient killed another while sharing a room at Noarlunga Hospital in 2014.

Victoria's mental health system "wasn't fit for purpose" heading into the coronavirus crisis, the state's Mental Health Minister admits, as an Australian Of The Year mental health advocate warns young people in particular are "looking down the barrel".

Julie Dempsey has been placed in seclusion hundreds of times over the past four decades and her most recent experience was just as harrowing as her first, leaving her feeling "subhuman". According to a new report Victoria's seclusion rate is higher than the national average.

One in 10 mental health patients discharged from hospital in Canberra are leaving worse off than when they entered. Milly Baker is one of them.

Premier Daniel Andrews says a levy to help fix Victoria's mental health system will be a "major part" of next year's state budget, as he vows to carry out a royal commission's plan to overhaul the "failing" system.

Australians suffering acute mental health episodes in rural and remote areas are increasingly having to travel far from family and friends for life-saving treatment, leading to calls for more specialist clinicians in the country.

A young Aboriginal woman's rights "were not adequately protected" when she received two rounds of electroconvulsive therapy without proper authorisation, an investigation finds.

Public holidays are often opportunities to relax but for some they can cause extra stress, requiring mental health authorities to prepare for a rise in their expected case load.

Faulty duress alarms at the Royal Adelaide Hospital could leave patients and staff at risk, as new problems beleaguer a mental health unit opened by the South Australian Premier just two months ago.

Regional Australians are feeling 'pill shamed' and are avoiding treatment due to the stigma around mental health medication and a lack of confidentiality in small-town pharmacies.

Less than 12 hours after making what police called an "extremely serious" attempt on her own life, Chloe Lashay was told the hospital needed her bed and she would have to leave.

Artificial intelligence more accurately predicts outcomes for people at high risk of psychosis in a new study, and could change the way we organise health care.