Category: Mental Health
How I learned to trust myself and heal a horrendous memory | Mental Health Perspectives
The Mental Health Project is a Seattle Times initiative focused on covering mental and behavioral health issues. It is funded…
Head-lines: a mental health news show run by puppets
© Provided by LA Times A stage with curtains opening to reveal the Head-lines logo. Being a kid has never…
How Discrimination Affects Your Mental And Physical Health
FilippoBacci via Getty Images Beyond stress, discrimination can cause more health problems for those who have to deal with it…
Hearing and Seeing Birds Can Boost Mental Health, Study Suggests
Just seeing or hearing birds may spark an improvement in mental well-being that can last up to eight hours, British…
CHOP opens new mental health center in West Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia opened a new mental health center in West Philadelphia on Thursday. CHOP says…
Relatives of St. Louis school shooter were concerned about his mental health, earlier confiscated a gun, police say
Relatives of the gunman who killed a student and teacher Monday during a St. Louis school shooting had long been…
ECMO May Come With Mental Health Costs
Use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) was associated with a modestly increased risk of new mental health diagnoses in patients…
Judges must divert more cases to mental health treatment, task force says
(Reuters) – Court systems in the U.S. need to do a better job of diverting individuals in some cases to…
How Social Media Affects Mental Health by Causing Withdrawal
Perhaps the most ironic modern-day cause of withdrawal, isolation, and even depression, comes via social media. On the one hand,…
Montgomery County Jail earns first-for-Ohio mental health accreditation award
The Montgomery County Jail has become the first in the state to receive a new accreditation award, focusing on mental…
