Interesting statistics on mental health, examining the illness of depression quoting Robin Williams as exemplars. Links to articles correlating depression and humour.
Slain Iranian asylum seeker Reza Berati. Oh lovely readers, I do not even know how to write this. I'm despairing of what has happened to Australia since 2001, since that first time, in my memory, we turned back those seeking refuge. This doesn't feel like my country, the country which provided a haven for my darling parents.
A viewpoint on the writer's analysis of humour used as a mask for pain. Links to other comedians who have written of their own experience with a mental disorder.