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The rising use of prescription drugs for weight loss can have life-changing positive effects for those who have struggled to control their weight, but psychiatrists warn that users should pay as much attention to the mental health impacts as to the physical transformation. Licensed in South Africa for treatment of type 2 diabetes and chronic weight management for people diagnosed with obesity, GLP-1 (glucagon-like peptide-1) drugs such as Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro are incr

As more people turn to artificial intelligence (AI) agents for answers to everyday questions, mental health professionals warn that “helpful” advice from chatbots on issues such as stress, anxiety and depression can do more harm than good. Interactions with AI-powered chatbots, particularly by vulnerable young people, have been linked in the USA, Canada and Europe to several cases of teen suicide, mass shootings, murder-suicides and psychological trauma and breakdown result

While women are more likely to be diagnosed with mental health conditions such as depression and anxiety, psychiatrists warn that men are far less likely to seek help, often delaying support until symptoms have already escalated into crisis. On average, one in eight men will have depression and one in five men will experience anxiety at some stage of their lives[i]. However, men’s mental health struggles often go unrecognised, untreated or are masked through anger, with