8 Ways To Cope With Seasonal Affective Disorder Thanks to effective treatments for seasonal depression, you don’t have to feel as low. By Karen Pallarito Medically reviewed by Stella Bard, MD When daylight saving time ends, you may gain an extra hour of sleep but lose something precious: sunlight. As daylight slips into darkness earlier in the day, depression diagnoses increase.1 Millions of Americans…
Latina Actress Rita Moreno Talks Mental Health & Diversity By Lara Bradley On Tuesday, Sept. 20, CU Boulder’s Cultural Events Board held a conversation in the Universal Memorial Center with actress, singer and activist Rita Moreno. Moreno’s career has spanned over seven decades and 40 feature films. She is one of only 17 individuals to win the prestigious series of…
12 Books by Latinas on Mental Health for All Ages By Sofía Aguilar Many of us in the Latinx community have heard our families dismissing the importance of mental health and the reality of mental health struggles. It’s common to hear our relatives refusing to go to therapy, belittling those who do or take it as a personal offense, and neglecting their mental…
Why Women with Serious Mental Illness Receive Worse Care By Hannah Furfaro Serious mental illness is more common among women than men — but women with serious conditions are often overlooked in psychiatric research, treated less effectively with psychiatric drugs, and face discrimination and stigma by medical professionals who diagnose them and oversee their care. The pandemic likely made a bad situation worse. Health…
Rachel Aviv Challenges Mental Health Stereotypes in New Book The award-winning writer for “The New Yorker” discusses her new book. By Dina Gachman What if the story of your life, as you see it, veers wildly from the narrative placed upon you by others — by society, institutions, family members, or psychiatrists? That question propels each chapter in award-winning New Yorker…
10 Ways to Help a Loved One Living With Mental Illness Family support can make a world of difference to those living with mental illness. Learn how to help the loved one in your life with these simple and easy gestures. By Kimberly Zapata Millions of Americans live with mental illness. According to the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), approximately one in…
Kids Need Access to Mental Health Days Mental Health Days & Kids, a survey from Verywell Mind and Parents, shows that 86% of parents who’ve allowed their children to take mental health days agree they’re impactful. Here’s why they’re important and what to know. By Allison Slater Tate Recently, I asked a soon-to-be high school senior, Abby*, if she ever…
Why Emotional Eating Is Totally Normal, According to a Dietitian It’s okay to eat your feelings sometimes. By Christine Byrne, MPH, RD To say that the term “emotional eating” has a bad rap is an understatement. Diet culture has long gone out of its way to convince us that food is the absolute last thing we should turn to in times of…
Constance Wu Opens Up About Mental Health Struggles By Zoe Christen Jones Actress Constance Wu returned to social media Thursday after an almost three year absence, opening up about her struggles with online bullying and the effect it had on her mental health. Wu said that backlash from a “careless” post she made on Twitter about her show’s renewal resulted in her…
Women’s Mental Health Care in Prison The continued lack of mental, emotional, and social health programming for women in prison during the COVID-19 pandemic may actually cause the virus’s most devastating and long-lasting health effects for this population. By Emma Athena Until September 2021, 33-year-old Cheyanne Tanner was incarcerated at Florida’s Homestead Correctional Institution, a state prison on the southernmost…