Students at Luray Middle School broke away from their classroom routine on Friday to take time for their mental health. This year, Luray Middle School has held “Spike Day” on certain Fridays, where students in good standing with the school can take an hour at the end of the day to participate in activities like … Read more
In 2004, voters in Miami-Dade County did something extraordinary. They chose to raise their own taxes to help people with mental illness by building a facility that would transfer them from the county jail, where they often languished without treatment, and instead send them to a place where they could get the help they needed. … Read more
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Highly sensitive to noise due to childhood trauma, Nili is stressed when air raid sirens send her to a crowded shelter where her “internal war” overlaps with that raging outside. The experience of Nili, whose name has been changed for this article, shows the particular vulnerability of people with mental health conditions when facing the … Read more
Sitting for hours on a regular basis can be harmful to your body and brain. A new study shows that keeping your brain active helps to reduce some of the negative effects of sedentary behavior. Engagement means activities like knitting or solving puzzles, instead of scrolling or passively looking at a screen. Scientists at the … Read more
Every Saturday morning, Phil Cenedella sets up at the corner of Newport Avenue and Abbott Street, just steps from the sand at Ocean Beach, with a small group of volunteers to serve food and connect people living on the street to services. Cenedella, who chairs the OB Task Force on Homelessness, is trying to bring … Read more
All over the world, people are struggling. Rates of anxiety, depression, loneliness, and burnout increase. While these may seem like unrelated phenomena, recent papers take a position that draws from similar sources. That is, capitalism. How can capitalism cause so many psychological illnesses today? Karim Bettache from the Chinese University of Hong Kong is of … Read more
Late last week, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced the creation of a new Office of Community Safety. The news comes as the fulfillment of a key campaign promise: the creation of a comprehensive Department of Community Safety, which would, among other things, free up mental health crisis response by replacing police response with … Read more
When someone goes through a mental health crisis, loved ones are thrown into a maze of important and important decisions. Where to find care? How to deal with insurance? When to call 911? For those in LA’s large Chinese immigrant community with limited English, helping loved ones can be challenging and isolating. Starting Monday, a … Read more
“Kaiser executives say they’re not using AI to make patient care determinations, but they won’t say what technology is underpinning the online questionnaires that automatically determine whether patients need an urgent appointment and assess whether they may be a threat to themselves,” said Carolyn Staehle, a behavioral therapist in San Francisco. “Whatever Kaiser wants to … Read more