Category Archives: Mental Health

The Recordermade an effortin 2019 to put a spotlight on mental health by telling the stories of people who have struggled with mental health issues and the advocates who want to reduce the stigma associated with those issues. Often times, those advocates were or are still the ones who also struggle. TaMaraBreeding-Goode said she has tried to take her life four or five times and wrote her first suicide letter when she was 11 years old Continue reading →

Any parent who has tried to access mental health help for a child knows just how challenging that can be. You need coordination across multiple siloed systems, explains Dr. Seema Marwaha, an internal medicine physician at St. Continue reading →

Pray for Sleep is a heavy metal band with a mission beyond just making music. The band has designed a program outreach for schools called Scream Back to help students with mental-health and behavioral issues Continue reading →

People expect the holiday season to be filled with cheer, but it can be very stressful. Continue reading →

As a pediatrician making the rounds in the intensive care unit, I rely on the numbers to tell the story of my patients condition. A girl is here, and her blood pressure numbers are low. Her medication dosage: high. Continue reading →

The way we consume media has changed dramatically over the past five years. Long gone are the days of waiting week by week to find out what happens next on your favourite show now streaming services like Stan, Netflix, Amazon Prime and other platforms have you covered, dropping entire eight-episode series to enjoy wherever you hang your hat. This shift in the way we watch has created a cultural ripple, from the discourse on Twitter to good ole fashioned water-cooler talk Continue reading →

For its second annual fundraiser, the nonprofit Kid in the Corner is doing what it does best: Breaking down the stigma that surrounds mental illness. On Saturday, Dec. 28, the nonprofit organization will hold two performances of Every Brilliant Thing, a one-woman play about a daughters life-long journey to understand her mothers suicidality by creating a list of reasons to live Continue reading →

Right now, the agriculture horizon is a bit cloudy. A five-year decline in farm income, retaliatory tariffs on U.S Continue reading →

Mental and physical health have long been proven to be connected even if you feel like they share no bonds. In reality, being stressed, for example, can make you gain or lose weight. Consequently, it is very important to understand how to handle both sides of your health Continue reading →

Reprinted with permission from DCReport If Donald Trump were not president, he would have been heldandevaluated long ago.Mental health professionals have deemed this a no brainer since early 2017.Dangerousness is more about the situation than the person, and we ask questions such as whether the environment, including others, can constrain the person and whether one has access to weapons. The concerns expressed at an ethics conference at Yale and in the public-service book,The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, unfolded over the past two years with exactitude:incitements to violence, cruel policies against children that lay thegroundwork for future violence,andthe fostering of a culture of violence bothdomesticallyandabroad. With the impeachment hearings, Trumps behavior has grown even more erratic his psychological structure makes him especially prone to violent revenge in the face of humiliation. Continue reading →