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- Childbirth - pain relief options
Understanding your pain relief options can help you cope better with the pain of childbirth.
- Survivor reactions to traumatic events
If you have survived a traumatic event, whether you were injured or not, it's important to recognise that trauma also causes emotional harm. Survival is often associated with complex emotional reactions that cause distress and make it hard to resume everyday life after the event. These are known as ‘survivor reactions’.
- Dementia - safety issues
Safety checks and modifications around the home can help ensure the safety of a person with dementia.
- Cannabis (marijuana)
Cannabis has many harmful effects on health.
- Inhalants
Inhalants are chemical substances that give off fumes that can be breathed in to achieve a 'high'.
- Epilepsy and ageing
People over 65 years of age have the highest incidence of epilepsy of any age, accounting for almost a quarter of cases of new onset epilepsy. Learn about causes, risk management and treatment.
- Porphyria
Porphyria can affect the skin, nervous system, gastrointestinal system or all of these, depending on the specific type.
- Early signs and intervention with mental illness
A range of services are available to assist you with mental health difficulties. Getting help early can reduce the severity of mental illness symptoms and the impact on people’s daily lives.
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD)
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is characterised by physical deterioration of the brain, dementia and walking difficulties
- Mental health first aid
Mental health first aid is the help you give to someone developing a mental health problem, experiencing a worsening of a mental health problem or in a mental health crisis.