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Mental Health and Wellbeing Connect is a new service dedicated to those who are supporting people living with mental health and substance use challenges or psychological distress.

Self-medicating with alcohol doesn't solve the causes of depression, which is common in rural communities.

Mental health issues and illnesses may impact on a person’s thoughts, perceptions, feelings and behaviours. Most people can manage their condition with medication, counselling or both.

Farming life and work can be hectic and stressful.

People with borderline personality disorder may exhibit extreme behaviour, such as repeated self-mutilation or taking overdoses of medication.

Paranoia is the irrational and persistent feeling that people are ‘out to get you’ or that you are the subject of persistent, intrusive attention by others.

People with body dysmorphic disorder constantly worry about the way they look.

Dissociation is a mental process where a person disconnects from their thoughts, feelings, memories or sense of identity.

People with schizophrenia do not have 'split personalities' and they are not intellectually disabled.

Without treatment, frequent and prolonged panic attacks can be severely disabling.