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How to recognise mental illness in children and adolescents

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Children are often unable to verbalise their feelings of anxiety or depression, instead presenting with physical symptoms or odd behaviour. Diagnosis and treatment is crucial to set them on a healthy life-long path of managing their illness
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We should not weaponise mental illness

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The case of Roxanne Joseph lays bare society’s inconsistencies about who deserves our empathy
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Beyond betrayal: Is redemption possible for a journalist who lived a lie?

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A young reporter lied about having cancer. Did her well-connected father cross the line protecting her? And does it endanger trust in journalism?
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Rapists who prey on the mentally ill

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Mentally ill men and women are easy targets for rapists, who are often known to them, and they don’t always report such incidents through fear
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WHO removes classification of transgenderism as a mental illness

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The WHO has recategorised transgenderism from being a ‘mental disorder’ to being a condition relating to ‘sexual health’
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Mining joy from anxiety’s depths

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That nagging fear may cause you to fall apart, but it may also serve as a call to action
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Maneta wears his mind on his sleeve

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Mental illness, feminism and racism are explored in a new collection of short stories by Rofhiwa Maneta
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On our ill-conceived normality: An ode to ‘the mad ones’​

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In the words of Edgar Allan Poe: “Men have called me mad, but the question is not settled whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence …
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