The Latest Breaking News from Depression

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While mothers with postpartum depression have always faced barriers accessing the care they need, things have been particularly bad since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The past few years have seen more attention being paid to maternal mental health. Many people are now aware of conditions such as postnatal depression, which affects one in seven mothers.

SSRI treatment linked to reduction in severe mental illness symptoms

Between 10 and 15% of women suffer postnatal depression in the first year after their child is born, experts said.

We’ve lived in more places than we can remember, but home is where the games are

Doctors in the ACT made an unsettling discovery after a patient complained of depression and forgetfulness.

News reports this morning describe how shocked doctors removed a live worm from a woman’s brain in a Canberra hospital last year. The woman had previously been admitted to hospital with stomach symptoms, dry cough and night sweats and months later experienced depression and forgetfulness that led to a brain…

Since the start of the COVID pandemic, there has been more attention given to problems of mental ill-health including depression than ever before. A new therapeutic option, especially for depression, transcranial magnetic stimulation, is slowly helping to address some of these considerable unmet needs in our community.