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Head start for help

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Mental health therapy a click away

Health / Cassie Maher Progress Leader News http://progress-leader.whereilive.com.au/news/story/head-start-for-help/

MILLIONS of Australians affected by anxiety disorders could benefit from a world-first at Hawthorn's Swinburne University.

A groundbreaking program offers free online psychological assessments, diagnoses, referrals and educational information on conditions such as obsessive compulsive disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder.

All In Your Mind

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Australian Story, ABC TV
May 11, 2009

"Professor Cyndi Shannon Weickert once dreamed of being a famous chef until her twin brother Scott Shannon was diagnosed with schizophrenia in his teens.

After witnessing the devastating symptoms of delusions and hallucinations first-hand in the person she loved the most, Cyndi Shannon Weikert embarked on a life mission to find a cure."

View the program or read transcripts at the ABC website: http://www.abc.net.au/austory/specials/allinyourmind/default.htm

Babies removed from new mothers

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The Australian
February 19, 2009

"CHILD protection workers are removing newborn babies from troubled first-time mothers before they leave the maternity ward."

Read more at The Australian website: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,25075583-2702,00.html

Bridge death: man on murder charge 'in acute psychiatric state'

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The Age
Kate Hagan
January 29, 2009

"A man charged with the murder of his daughter after she was allegedly thrown from the West Gate Bridge is in an "acute psychiatric state'', a court has heard."

Sex hormone 'can relieve schizophrenia'

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The Age
March 16, 2008

"Hormone patches used to help older women through menopause can also radically improve the most debilitating symptoms of schizophrenia, a trial on Australian women has found."

ABC News
Mar 17, 2008

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/03/17/2191600.htm

and in 2005

http://www.abc.net.au/health/minutes/stories/2005/02/03/1295229.htm

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The 'Forgotten People'

by Anna Malbon from the Progress Press October 22, 1996

WHEN nine-year-old "Tom" was asked to draw a picture of himself with his mother be drew her trying to strangle him.

Tom entered the world of adults too early. If he was ever immune to the complications and pain of life that adults try to shelter from children, he says he can't remember.

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