DON'T EVER GIVE UP
2021-11-30 California Joins States Trying to Shorten Wait Times for Mental Health Care April Dembosky, KQED When Greta Christina fell into a deep depression five years ago, she called up her therapist in San Francisco. She’d had a great connection with the provider when she needed therapy in the past. She was delighted to […]
2021-11-30 The thousands of vulnerable people harmed by Facebook and Instagram are lost in Meta’s ‘average user’ data Mark Zuckerberg’s company says the kids are all right, but the data it presents is only about how the average social media user is doing. AP Photo/Eric Risberg Joseph Bak-Coleman, University of Washington Fall 2021 has been filled […]
Reducing Stigma Stigma is discrimination against an identifiable group of people, a place, or a nation. Stigma is associated with a lack of knowledge about how COVID-19 spreads, a need to blame someone, fears about disease and death, and gossip that spreads rumors and myths. No single person or group of people are […]
2021-11-21 What Happens After a Campus Suicide Is a Form of Prevention, Too Aneri Pattani If you or someone you know is in crisis, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255 or text HOME to the Crisis Text Line at 741741. CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Ethan Phillips was 13 years old when […]
Misremembering might actually be a sign your memory is working optimally You don’t really need to remember what you ordered at the bakery a couple weeks ago. andresr/E+ via Getty Images Robert Jacobs, University of Rochester When asked the other day about a bakery near my home, I responded that I’d recently eaten its mouth-watering chocolate […]
Raising Awareness of Parkinson’s Non-Motor Symptoms Via Storytelling (StatePoint) With the help of an Airstream trailer traveling the country, people with Parkinson’s disease will soon have a unique opportunity to record and share their experiences and personal stories as part of a program called “Yours, Truly.” Nonmotor symptoms associated with Parkinson’s disease, as […]
2021-11-10 Florida Program to Aid Brain-Damaged Kids Often Told Families No. It’s Promising to Change. by Carol Marbin Miller and Daniel Chang, Miami Herald ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Republished from propublica.org under a creative commons license. […]
2021-11-10 A Judge Takes His Mental Health Struggles Public Mark Kreidler In 1972, just 18 days after he was selected to run for vice president with Democratic Sen. George McGovern, Thomas Eagleton was forced off the ticket. The issue? Years earlier, Eagleton had been hospitalized and treated with electroshock therapy for depression. The disclosure […]
(To stay on this page right click on links to open in a new tab/window) Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a psycho-social intervention[1][2] that aims to improve mental health.[3]CBT focuses on challenging and changing cognitive distortions (e.g. thoughts, beliefs, and attitudes) and behaviors, improving emotional regulation,[2][4] and the development of personal coping strategies that target solving current problems. It was originally designed to […]
Older Adults and Mental Health Overview It’s just as important for an older person with symptoms of depression to seek treatment as it is for someone younger. The impact of depression on health in older adults can be severe: much research has reported that depression is associated with worse health in people with conditions like […]