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Fear of death underlies most of our phobias

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imageSome people focus their fear of death on smaller and more manageable threats.Pimthida/Flickr, CC BY

This is the first in our Coping with Mortality series, which looks at our fear of death across the ages and how to cope with the dying process. Tomorrow’s article is on helping children process death.

Awareness of our mortality is part of being...

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Antidepressants may not be as effective as we thought, and shouldn't be the only treatment for depression

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imageAustralians are some of the biggest anti-depressant users in the world.Volkan Olmez/Unsplash, FAL

The treatment of depression too often means treatment with antidepressants. Australia has one of the highest rates of antidepressant use in the world. This continues to increase despite mounting evidence they are not especially effective.

My colleague An...

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