AHA News: Break Up Binge-Watching by Taking a Stand
Latest Mental Health News MONDAY, March 7, 2022 (American Heart Association News) It’s after midnight, well past your normal bedtime, and you’re about to start watching your third straight episode of that police drama or classic comedy while sitting on the couch with a blanket. Sounds like a cozy way to wind down the night. […]
White House Plan Will Tackle Mental Health Crisis in America
Latest Mental Health News FRIDAY, March 4, 2022 (HealthDay News) President Joe Biden has announced a new plan to expand mental health and drug abuse treatment that would devote millions to suicide prevention, mental health services for youth and community clinics providing 24/7 crisis care. Health insurers would also have to cover three mental health […]
Is Pandemic Social Media Use Worsening Tic Disorders in Teens?
Latest Mental Health News TUESDAY, March 1, 2022 (HealthDay News) For reasons that remain murky, new research warns that a spike in social media use during the pandemic might have worsened tic disorders in children. Tics are sudden twitches, movements or sounds that people do repeatedly because they can’t control their body. In the study, […]
Eating Disorders Are Different for Men
Latest Mental Health News MONDAY, Feb. 28, 2022 (HealthDay News) People tend to have a specific image when they think of eating disorders — a disturbingly skinny white girl with reed-thin arms, her ribs and shoulder blades prominent. You don’t think of a ripped, beefy muscle man chugging a protein shake and fretting about carbs […]
AHA News: Understanding ‘Black Fatigue’ – And How to Overcome It
Latest Mental Health News THURSDAY, Feb. 24, 2022 (American Heart Association News) Before she gave the feeling a name, Mary-Frances Winters felt it constantly. She calls it “a dull droning sound that is always present” and “an underlying syndrome of sorts that permeates my very being.” It’s the exhaustion born of “the day-to-day small acts […]
Pandemic Didn’t Dent Americans’ Optimism, Polls Find
Latest Mental Health News THURSDAY, Feb. 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) Despite the crushing challenges of navigating a worldwide pandemic during the past two years, Americans remain as optimistic as ever, a series of surveys shows. The surveys were conducted between 2008 and 2020, and included 2.7 million adults who were asked to use a 10-point […]
Microdosing LSD: Can It Help or Harm Mental Health?
Latest Mental Health News WEDNESDAY, Feb. 23, 2022 (HealthDay News) Microdosing has become trendy in the era of drug legalization, with TV shows like “Nine Perfect Strangers” promoting the potential positives of regularly taking tiny amounts of psychedelics. But a new study finds that short-term microdosing of one hippy-era psychedelic, LSD, doesn’t appear to cause […]
Science Pinpoints the Brain’s ‘Singing Center’
Latest Mental Health News WEDNESDAY, Feb. 23, 2022 (HealthDay News) If a great singer seems to light up your mind, it’s not your imagination. Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have identified a group of neurons in the brain that react to singing but not to other types of music. “This was a finding […]
Millions of Americans Taking Risky Drug Combo – MedicineNet Health News
Latest Mental Health News WEDNESDAY, Feb. 23, 2022 Millions of American adults take a potentially deadly duo of prescription opioid painkillers and sedatives at the same time, researchers warn. The side effects of concurrent use of opioids and sedatives such as benzodiazepines (such as Xanax or Valium) may be even stronger in people who are […]
How To Find A Therapist Who Focuses On Asian American Mental Health
Before finding an Asian American mental health practitioner, Agnes Morelos’ experiences with therapy felt lacking. She’d go to sessions and either water down her observations as a Filipina, Chinese and Spanish woman, or simply not address some of the more thorny aspects of her race and ethnicity ― like her lingering guilt over pursuing a […]