Maternal Mental Health: How to Manage the Mental Health Challenges of Being a Mum

Being a mother can be a wonderful and fulfilling experience, but it can also come with mental health challenges.
Whether you’re a new mum, or dealing with toddler tantrums, managing …

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Anger Management: 5 Tips to Control Your Temper

Feeling angry is a normal emotion that everyone experiences from time to time. It is a natural response to situations that you perceive as threatening, frustrating, or unjust.
Anger can …

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How to Deal with Loneliness for Better Mental Health

Feeling lonely? It’s a common feeling of isolation, sadness or dissatisfaction with your social connections or relationships.
The feeling may last for a short while or it can remain for …

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Simple Habits to Adopt for a Mentally Healthy 2023

Make 2023 the year you focus on your mental health. Forget short-lived New Year’s resolutions and rigid goal setting, instead commit to adopting some simple habits to boost your mental …

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Change to Medicare Subsidy Arrangement for Psychological Services

Medicare subsidised visits to psychologists have been reduced from 1 January 2023.
This means the number of Medicare subsidised psychology sessions you can claim has dropped from 20 to 10, …

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How to Manage Mental Wellbeing During Pregnancy

Dealing with Antenatal Anxiety and Postpartum Depression
Your mental health and wellbeing are just as important as your physical health during pregnancy and following childbirth.
While welcoming a new family …

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How To Get the Most from Mental Health Week 2022

Mental Health Week and World Mental Health Day are marked in October each year.
It’s a good time to reflect on the importance of looking after your mental health and …

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Suicide Prevention: How to Have an R U OK? Conversation

Thursday September 8 is R U OK? Day. It’s a National Day of Action when you are reminded that every day is the day to ask, ‘are you ok?’ and …

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How to Stop Ruminating and Relax Your Mind

Have trouble turning off the mental chatter? You want to relax, but your brain keeps analysing your last conversation, overthinking past mistakes, or replaying an unpleasant incident on repeat.
If …

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Navigating Sexual Orientation and Mental Health

Sexual orientation is not a mental illness. Rather, people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersexual or asexual (LGBTQIA+) often face an increased risk of mental illness due …

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