Mental Health

Health & Safety

School shootings: It's hard to spot the warning signs. Prevention steps can help

5:21pm December 05, 2021

NPR's David Folkenflik talks to Jillian Peterson, co-founder of The Violence Project, about methods to prevent school shootings before they occur, especially when there are warning signs.

Dispatches From Within: To know that other people saw me like that

3:24pm December 05, 2021

by Chloe Patterson, Shaelyn Sebastian and Bailey Wickline

WFDD's Radio 101 has chosen to use initials in the following story due to the sensitive subject matter and to protect the students' privacy.

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Danyelle Clark-Gutierrez and her service dog, Lisa, shop for food at a grocery store. Clark-Gutierrez got the yellow Labrador retriever to help her cope with post-traumatic stress disorder after she experienced military sexual trauma while serving in the

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More veterans with PTSD will soon get help from service dogs. Thank the 'PAWS' Act

4:43pm December 03, 2021

by Stephanie O'Neill

Service dogs have long helped veterans with vision or mobility problems. Now the PAWS Veterans Therapy Act will help connect specially trained dogs to some veterans with symptoms of traumatic stress.

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Steps you can take to shake the feeling that you're an imposter

6:24am December 02, 2021

by Diana Opong

NPR's Life Kit team looks at the factors that contribute to experiencing impostor phenomenon and how to deal with them. (This story originally aired on Feb. 14, 2021 on All Things Considered.)

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Ian Fishback's death spotlights the mental illness crisis suffered by veterans

6:24am December 02, 2021

by Quil Lawrence

Ian Fishback was a green beret who exposed torture by U.S. troops in Iraq. After serving four combat tours and earning a PhD in philosophy, Fishback died last month in a nursing home at 42.

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Dispatches From Within: It becomes an equity issue

6:18am December 01, 2021

by Addison Ashby, Christian Morrison and Elizabeth Seal

For many teachers and students, the beginning of the 2021-2022 school year was a surreal moment.

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LGBTQ

Dispatches From Within: There was everybody else, and then there was me

8:00am November 29, 2021

by Janay Brokenborough, Watson Carter, Sophie Welch

For M, and every other trans student, the daily roll call at the beginning of the class can feel like a punch in the gut.

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Native tribes have responded to the pandemic with creative ways to stay connected. Veronica Concho and Raymond Concho Jr. grew traditional Pueblo foods and Navajo crops with their grandchildren Kaleb and Kateri Allison-Burbank in Waterflow, N.M.

Hit hard by COVID, Native Americans come together to protect families and elders

11:25pm November 24, 2021

by Rhitu Chatterjee

Indigenous Americans suffer disproportionate effects of COVID, including the mental health impact. But a collective mindset has helped them find creative solutions to buffering the stress.

An old mental hospital sits in Trieste's San Giovanni Park. The facility closed over 40 years ago, but its ocher pavilions are filled with activity.

A public mental health model in Italy earns global praise. Now it faces its demise

9:31am November 24, 2021

by Sylvia Poggioli

Trieste has a reputed approach to bringing people with mental illnesses out of hospitals and into the community. Now the region's hard-right politicians are breaking the system apart.

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People who think they have CTE are seeking treatment at a controversial brain clinic

4:45pm November 23, 2021

by Sacha Pfeiffer

The brain disease CTE can only be diagnosed through autopsy. But there is a quiet population of everyday people afraid they have it — and they're turning to dubious treatments.

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