The Latest Breaking News from Anxiety

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.

Letting out a belch may seem like a normal part of life, but not everyone can do it. Now people with the condition are finding each other — and a potential treatment — online.

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Confident he is fully healthy after a years-long string of injuries and certain he has control of the anxiety issues that scarred his past, Daniel Robertson is convinced that at age 28 he is ready to start his career over.

Binky has set the date for her labour at the hospital favoured by the royals

The days of the uniform anxiety that forced many women and girls to walk away from the sport may finally have come to an end

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.

New research links higher social anxiety symptoms to experiencing more dependent stressful life events than people without social anxiety.

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

Some 32% say that if they could treat their mental health issues with cannabis-based remedies over antidepressants then they would because they think it's safer

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

A report from the front lines of California’s Black mental health crisis.