If you are living with someone who has mental illness, what should do you do?  How can you help? What are the right, and wrong, things to say and do? And how do you take care of yourself?

If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at [email protected] . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover.

To find out more about depression and support services you can contact Head to Health at www.headtohealth.gov.au  Beyond Blue at www.beyondblue.org.au , Lifeline at www.lifeline.org.au or on 13 11 14 and www.headspace.org.au Thanks to Future Generation Global

Many parents say boys and girls are different from day 1. Boys run around more, girls do quieter activities. Is that just people bringing their own preconceptions and prejudices into it, or is there some physiological truth there? How different are the genders? Are men more aggressive? Women more caring? What about those who don’t feel that the gender identity they were given at birth fits?

If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at [email protected] . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover.

To find out more about depression and support services you can contact Head to Health at www.headtohealth.gov.au  Beyond Blue at www.beyondblue.org.au , Lifeline at www.lifeline.org.au or on 13 11 14 and www.headspace.org.au. Thanks to Future Generation Global

How are mental illness and mental health conditions diagnosed? How often do mental health professionals get it right? Are they getting better at it?   Shouldn’t there be a machine by now, that can just look at our brain and tell us exactly what is going on?

If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at [email protected] . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover.

To find out more about depression and support services you can contact Head to Health at www.headtohealth.gov.au  Beyond Blue at www.beyondblue.org.au , Lifeline at www.lifeline.org.au or on 13 11 14 and www.headspace.org.au. Thanks to Future Generation Global.

Many of us have too much stuff, but find it hard to get rid of any of it. Who knows, you just might need that year 10 maths book one day. For some, hoarding becomes a real problem that interferes with their life. Why do people hoard? How do you treat hoarding?

If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at [email protected] . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover.

To find out more about depression and support services you can contact Head to Health at www.headtohealth.gov.au  Beyond Blue at www.beyondblue.org.au , Lifeline at www.lifeline.org.au or on 13 11 14 and www.headspace.org.au.Thanks to Future Generation Global.

What makes us want to get to the top? What is ambition?  Where does it come from? What is the right mix between having goals, but not being so focussed on them that we forget to enjoy the ride?

If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at [email protected]. Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover.

To find out more about depression and support services you can contact Head to Health at www.headtohealth.gov.au  Beyond Blue atwww.beyondblue.org.au, Lifeline at www.lifeline.org.auor on 13 11 14 andwww.headspace.org.au. Thanks to Future Generation Global.

Do we have kids because of a genetically strong instinct? Or because we want to nurture and love? Could it be because we want to feel important? Or even be because we think doing so might help us become better people?

If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at [email protected] . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover.

To find out more about depression and support services you can contact Head to Health at www.headtohealth.gov.au  Beyond Blue at www.beyondblue.org.au , Lifeline at www.lifeline.org.au or on 13 11 14 and www.headspace.org.au . Thanks to Future Generation Global.

Finally, the biggest question of all. Who are you? How do we work out our identity? How does it change through life? How does our sense of our who we are affect our mental health?

If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at [email protected] . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover.

To find out more about depression and support services you can contact Head to Health at www.headtohealth.gov.au  Beyond Blue at www.beyondblue.org.au , Lifeline at www.lifeline.org.au or on 13 11 14 and www.headspace.org.au Thanks to Future Generation Global.

Whenever we talk to someone at work, socially or at home, status is almost always a factor. How is our status determined? Is it all about relative power, or at least our perception of it?  How does our status affect our mental health?

If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at [email protected] . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover.

To find out more about depression and support services you can contact Head to Health at www.headtohealth.gov.au  Beyond Blue at www.beyondblue.org.au , Lifeline at www.lifeline.org.au or on 13 11 14 and www.headspace.org.au Thanks to Future Generation Global

Everyone has experienced a bully at school or in the workplace. How do you deal with bullies? Why do some people bully others?

If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at [email protected] . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover.

To find out more about depression and support services you can contact Head to Health at www.headtohealth.gov.au  Beyond Blue at www.beyondblue.org.au , Lifeline at www.lifeline.org.au or on 13 11 14 and www.headspace.org.au.Thanks to Future Generation Global.

When bad things happen – a loved one dies, a natural disaster, the end of a relationship - how do we deal with it? Can we learn to cope better?

If you have any questions or comments email Ian and James at [email protected] . Let them know any other topics you’d like them to cover.

To find out more about depression and support services you can contact Head to Health at www.headtohealth.gov.au  Beyond Blue at www.beyondblue.org.au , Lifeline at www.lifeline.org.au or on 13 11 14 and www.headspace.org.au. Thanks to Future Generation Global.