Mental Health

A market of dubious remedies has sprung up as more everyday people fear they have CTE

4:55pm November 22, 2021

by Sacha Pfeiffer

The degenerative brain condition known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy gained infamy due to cases in high-profile professional football players. But CTE goes far beyond the NFL.

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Why people with mental illness are at higher risk of COVID

12:25pm November 22, 2021

by Rhitu Chatterjee

Federal health officials have been urging adults with psychiatric conditions to get a booster shot to increase their COVID protection. It turns out being mentally ill puts you at higher risk.

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Anxiety and grief comes with climate change

9:26am November 20, 2021

by Alex Smith

The environmental movement is doing more to address the psychological toll on activists and volunteers, encouraging resilience and self-care to counteract anxiety and grief over planetary damage.

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When Greta Christina heard that Kaiser Permanente mental health clinicians were staging a protest on Oct. 13, 2019, over long wait times for therapy, she made her own sign and showed up to support them. She's had to wait up to six weeks between therapy ap

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Americans can wait many weeks to see a therapist. California law aims to fix that.

7:00am November 18, 2021

Many Americans with mental illness report waiting weeks for care, even for serious depression or suicidality. Now California has a new law for insurers, limiting those wait times to two weeks or less.

Why COVID poses a greater risk to people with a mental health diagnosis

4:44pm November 17, 2021

by Rhitu Chatterjee

The CDC has added mental illness as a risk factor to qualify for a booster. Those with a mental health diagnosis are at a higher risk of getting infected, being hospitalized and dying from COVID-19.

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After two student suicides over one October weekend, UNC students created a makeshift memorial on the Chapel Hill campus. To reduce the risk of suicide contagion, any memorial sites or activities should be limited, experts say, and should not glorify, vil

Colleges are turning to science to limit suicide contagion and help heal campuses

4:08pm November 16, 2021

by Aneri Pattani

The new strategy is called "postvention." It means having a plan built on truth, compassion and counseling that quickly addresses the mental health needs of friends and classmates after a suicide.

Teachers are asking for extra holidays and mental health resources to fight burnout

8:02am November 13, 2021

Scott Simon speaks with Sobia Sheikh, a math teacher in northwest Washington state, about teacher burnout.

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University of Kansas undergraduate Marc Veloz speaks at an environmental rally outside Lawrence city hall. He says his interest in activism was driven by concern over the disproportionate effect climate change had on communities of color in his hometown o

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As climate worsens, environmentalists also grapple with the mental toll of activism

7:00am November 13, 2021

by Alex Smith

After her son's death, a mother in the Midwest promotes mental health for environmentalists. It's part of a larger push to address the burnout and psychological stress that can affect activists.

Left to right: Filipino American health care workers Karen Cantor, Karen Shoker, and John Paul Atienza were among many who cared for COVID patients in the early days of the pandemic.

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Filipino American health workers reflect on trauma and healing on COVID's frontlines

10:53am November 09, 2021

by Rosem Morton

They have shouldered an outsize share of COVID-19's burden, statistics show. Many lost family members; others got sick themselves, recovered and carried on. Meet the caregivers.

Suboxone and a similar medicine, Subutex, are both proven to help people with opioid addiction stay in recovery. Yet the Drug Enforcement Administration often makes it hard for pharmacies to dispense it.

DEA takes aggressive stance toward pharmacies trying to dispense addiction medicine

4:41pm November 08, 2021

by Aneri Pattani

A West Virginia pharmacist wanted to help those hit by the opioid crisis. But a few years after he began providing medications to treat addiction, drug enforcement raided his pharmacy.