The Latest Breaking News from Depression

As we return to normality, people may well be thinking about going off their mental health medicines, particularly antidepressants.

Mental health is key to health and wellbeing. Yet two in five Australians aged 16 to 85 (44%) experience a mental illness during their lifetime, commonly anxiety or depression. And more than 32 million antidepressant prescriptions are dispensed on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme each year for these diagnoses.

Leonie Elliott played the nurse Lucille Robinson on the much-loved programme, but has now quit the show after her character returned to her home in Jamaica

Burnout is now such a specific experience that researchers are investigating whether it should be included as a mental health condition in its own right, alongside psychological illnesses like anxiety or depression, with which burnout is frequently confused. And this Australian research is at the cutting edge.

Research suggests traumatic childhood experiences embed themselves in our brains and put us at risk of mental illness, but epigenetic editing may offer us hope of removing them

Linda Sutherland was told she was suffering with depression, after losing her husband Ronnie, but her two children took her to the doctors after growing concerned and realised their mum had a progressive stage of Alzheimer's

A new study suggests that physical activity is 1.5 times more effective than psychotherapy or the leading drugs in treating depression, according to experts at the University of South Australia. Read further on Dynamite News:

The findings could be linked to an increase in the prevalence of depression.

LSD and natural psychedelic substance found in the venom of toad among substances used for research