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Seeing a spider is possibly the worst fear I can imagine. It is a fear that consumes my daily life to such an extent that I can’t walk into a room without checking the walls first. SBS Insight guest Matt Tichelaar describes just how debilitating a true phobia of spiders can be.

05 Nov 2013

5 min read

Research shows that one of the best ways to ward off 'frailty' that often comes with ageing is to build up your muscles and embrace weight training.

15 Jan 2019

5 min read

The heat probe on NASA's Mars InSight mission has hit an obstacle and has been stuck for the last few days.

06 Mar 2019

3 min read

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In 1998, Louise wrapped her car around a pole and was seriously injured. Life as she knew it was never going to be the same again.

15 Jan 2019

4 min read

“It felt like I was put out to pasture.”

19 Apr 2017

3 min read

Australia's leading forum for debate and powerful first-person stories. Follow discussions with a panel of experts regarding the latest social, economic and political issues from across the world.

Prue Hawkins is a 33-year-old lawyer and has been unemployed since February. Prue is looking for law jobs but says she’d work anywhere, but that's not always possible because of her brittle-bone disease.

16 Sep 2014

5 min read

Should we still be using the term 'hypochondria' to describe forms of health anxiety? In most psychology circles it's been dropped definitively, in favour of more specific and less negative terms, but others argue that decision may have been too hasty.

22 Feb 2022

6 min read

Insight hears from parents, doctors, nurses and ethicists about how life and death decisions have to be made in the face of great uncertainty - and in some cases a matter of minutes.

07 Jul 2015

3 min read