Tag: Mental Health

8 Ways To Cope With Seasonal Affective Disorder

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…

Why Women with Serious Mental Illness Receive Worse Care

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

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…

Women’s Mental Health Care in Prison

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…