Category: Depression
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Misdiagnosis nearly killed me
A personal and clinical account of misdiagnosis, neurodivergence, environment, and augmentation. Three books form one argument: mental health fails when behaviour is mistaken for architecture, context is ignored, and clinicians lose the bandwidth to remain curious
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Have you tortured someone today?
One in four of us don’t ‘fit in’. This leads to tremendous psychological pain as we deal with the pain of rejection and the fear of being ostracised. Have you unwittingly tortured your friend today?
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Steve Davis on social media’s fall
Now that Australia has passed the world’s first law on social media and teens, over a decade after it was first realised how dangerous Meta/Facebook/Instagram are to mental health, Steve Davis reflects…
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You’re Not Imagining It, It IS This Weird
A witty, satirical survival guide for the optimisation age, ‘You’re Not Imagining It, It IS This Weird’ exposes the absurdities of wellness, productivity, and authenticity culture while inviting readers to laugh, question, and reclaim their sanity in a world gone strangely sideways
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I wish depression were an emergency
Depression is just as life-threatening as physical illness—yet often invisible. Discover why we should treat depression like an emergency, how recognition can save lives, and what small acts of care can do to pull someone back from the edge
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Raising your Happiness level: 5 words
Hannah Fry (famed science communicator) on the 5-word sentence that can improve your happiness. Brilliant. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Hannah Fry (@fryrsquared)
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Understanding the overlap between complex PTSD, autism, and ADHD
This article explores the overlapping traits and key differences between complex PTSD, autism, and ADHD. It explains how emotional dysregulation, sensory sensitivity, and suicidal ideation can present similarly—while offering clarity on diagnosis, misdiagnosis, and the need for tailored, trauma-informed, and neurodivergent-aware support
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Age-gap relationships in Asia and menopause: Something for men to think about
A marriage between a 60-year-old Australian man and a 40-year-old Vietnamese woman offers emotional enrichment, companionship, and cultural diversity but poses risks like health disparities, menopause-related challenges, societal judgment, and differing priorities. Success depends on empathy, communication, cultural sensitivity, and proactive planning
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Menopause and divorce
A woman gives her heartfelt reality of the statistic that 70% of Australian divorces are because of menopause
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Multimodal framework for depression detection on social media
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, mental health issues like depression have risen, leading researchers to propose a multimodal framework for detecting depression on social media.(Anshul 2024, Li 2024). By combining textual, user-specific, and image analyses, the framework aims to extract features for depression detection.(Anshul 2024, Li 2024). A deep learning model, VNN, was used to generate…
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Detecting depression through facial expressions
This research utilised a dataset with calm, sad, and happy facial expressions to classify depression based on facial information.(Li 2024, Anshul 2024). Techniques like dual-scale convolution and adaptive channel attention were employed to capture significant features in facial regions. The results showed improved depression classification performance, with unique visual patterns specific to depression identified.(Li 2024).…
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Understanding depression
Depression is a complex mental health condition affecting millions worldwide. This guide explores its symptoms, impacts, and effective strategies—like professional therapy, self-care, mindfulness, and medication—offering hope for recovery. Learn how to navigate depression and reclaim emotional well-being
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Re-framing mental health diagnoses
Lee Hopkins explores how the neurodiversity paradigm challenges traditional medical models of mental health conditions. It advocates for a shift towards a more inclusive, humanised approach that recognises cognitive differences as natural variations rather than disorders requiring treatment
