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A Preview of Groundbreaking Work Being Presented at a National Psychiatry Congress This May When I returned to university as a mature-age student to study medicine, I had three children under ten and a daily commute from Sydney to Wollongong. On clinical placement, a supervisor told me he wouldn't have selected me — insufficient return on investment, he said, given my age, gender, and role as a mother. By the end of the placement, he conceded I had done three times the work o

When Doing Good for Patients Means Doing Battle with Bureaucracy by The MotherMind Doctor I've been a psychiatrist long enough to know that healing doesn't always happen in a consulting room. It can happen on a forest trail. It can happen in a number of different environments like wellness activities such as sauna, spa, or simply through learning to breathe differently. These aren't fringe ideas. They're evidence-based interventions with a growing body of scientific literatur

By The MotherMind Doctor The concerning trend around all corners of the internet involves ‘maxxing’ and started with maximising your status in gaming.   Then it was picked up and extrapolated to popular use with obsessional intent on specific aspects of your life like your appearance with ‘looksmaxxing’ for your face, and your body with ‘gymmaxxing’.It can even be referred to for health pursuits like sleep, ‘sleepmaxxing’, and diet…yes maxxing; going so far as strategies such