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By The MotherMind Doctor When your close friend tells you she has trouble communicating and it turns out to be a brain tumour, this literally turns life on its head. My friend is a practicing GP and somehow we think doctors are above human tragedy but life happens to them, too. This was all the more shocking because she is in her mid 50s and she is a long practicing health proponent, eating a plant-based diet, with exercise built into her routine, and has Buddhist belie

By Dr E K Wills PS. I wrote this not AI Sunset on the Year 2025 This year has been one of discovery and difficulty for many and I am no exception. Thankfully, I have a guide of sorts in my supervisor/therapist (recommended for all psychiatrists and in fact can be helpful for anyone) who suggested a reflection of the year’s highs and lows in order to discover the potential path for next year. I cheated by looking back over my annual calendar which held some forgotten pearl

Why do we feel the need to take on others’ opinions?

By Dr Emma What if the world were run by women? I recently noticed that I have an underlying sense of frustration pretty much all the time. I knowledge we’ve just come through a pandemic and that we have a cost of living crisis but there’s an underlying sense of resignation and lack of hope. This was probably fuelled by the recent release of the gender pay gap statistics which have been justified as an inevitable product of biology and social roles as well as occupational

By EK Wills There is a lot of information, and not all of it helpful, around developmental conditions such as ADHD. Ironically, it has become the focus of attention for a while now, particularly on socials, but there is still lack of clarity about where to go to get help. The committee for the private practice in psychiatry has had people with lived experience report that they and others in support groups have significant challenges in navigating the complex health system t

For those of us who grew up before the awareness around neurodiversity, we attracted labels like ‘angry’ or ‘prickly’ and ‘sensitive’.

Do you feel like you belong to the community you live in? I personally recall moving over a dozen times before I left high school and I wonder whether that has had an impact on my need to put down roots and feel connected to a community. Australia is a mobile society. Many people do not live in the same place they grew up in, be that the same house or same town. A third of our population are born overseas and only a third of people stayed living at the same address in the las

By EK Wills A week in Bali was an opportunity to reflect on what really matters but the noise of distraction – good and bad- drowned out any true contemplation. The 6 hour flight out of Sydney was a captive start to a downloaded audible version of Waking Up by Sam Harris. I was trying to get some clarity for how I want to settle into post pandemic life, now I have completed my training. This was the opportunity to step out of the fishbowl to gain an outside perspective and ma

I get a nervous stomach or ‘butterflies’, sweat more and my voices has been known to shake when trying to give a confident response. So I do

Women experience mental health issues with much higher rates of depression and seasonal affective disorder (4-6 times more than men) and the

If you have found a way that works with your child, then stick to it and reinforce it. While each child is unique, it helps to continue with

By EK Wills A friend lost her kindred sister to the horror of violence this week. The attacker was someone she had previously trusted and shockingly this is still not unusual in society generally. In the week of International Women’s Day it is important to reflect on the situation for women because the struggle has not eased. In India in 2012 there was an horrific attack on a woman on a bus where she was beaten, raped repeatedly by a gang in Delhi, and left for dead. There wa