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…
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…
The International Condition of Mental Health Report urges mental health decision makers and advocates to step up commitment and action to change attitudes, actions and approaches to mental health, its determinants and mental health care. By WHO (World Health Organization) The World Health Organization today released its largest review of the condition of world mental health since the turn of…
By Carolyn Rivkees Last year, my therapy sessions began to feel like an ongoing carousel ride: every conversation circled the same few topics without arriving anywhere new. No matter the angle we started from, or how much self-awareness I brought to the discussion, my struggles with self-criticism stayed stagnant. I decided to bring my problems to a local life coach,…
By Kelly Greenwood and Julia Anas When we published our research on workplace mental health in October 2019, we never could have predicted how much our lives would soon be upended by the Covid-19 pandemic. Then the murders of George Floyd and other Black Americans by the police; the rise in violence against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs); wildfires; political unrest;…
By Emily Torres Writing in my journal is not the glamorous habit I make it out to be in my mind. I envision luxe hard-bound volumes full of pristine, poetic calligraphy written by candlelight before dawn. Reality finds me sitting sleepily in a robe, writing nonsense into spiral-bound notebooks until my coffee kicks in. My initial plan for a consistent…
It’s always good to consider the ways that we need to improve. But there’s a difference between self-reflection and negative self-talk. Here’s how you can turn down the volume on your inner critic and hop on board the self-love train.
By Patricia Martin The word “self-love” can feel elusive. We tend to see actionable ways to love others—listening to them, helping them, appreciating them—but when it comes to ourselves, love is often just a feeling and not something we can practice. So we don’t. Most of the time, this isn’t because we don’t love ourselves; it’s because we don’t know how to love ourselves in meaningful ways.…
By Maya Nahra It’s the fear that things won’t work out like you’d hoped they will. It’s the panic you get when plans change. Or when anything changes. That’s anxiety. It’s the wired exhaustion that comes from an addiction to busy-ness. It fuels the perfectionism in your projects and tasks. It’s everyday anxiety, that can distract us from the magic of…
