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This May, take action, raise your voice, and help change the conversation around mental health! Since 1949, Mental Health Awareness Month has been a driving force in addressing the challenges faced by ...
According to the National Institute of Mental Health, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is diagnosed in people who face traumatic events, the repercussions of which are experienced by them for ...
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has written to some of its mental health nursing members in an attempt to provide reassurance about its stance on their specialty. The move follows controversial ...
Feelings about being diagnosed and living with epilepsy will vary from one person to another. Mental health issues such as anxiety and depression are common in people with epilepsy. In some cases, ...
Faced with the increasing possibility of significant Medicaid cuts, San Diego County supervisors did not back away from further mental health care investments Tuesday, approving requests for ...
It’s among an array of mental health services on the chopping block in Governor Maura Healey’s budget proposal for the coming fiscal year. A proposed 7 percent increase in the department’s ...
and behavioral disorders and improve mental health. The committee that wrote the report began its study in 2023, and the report was finalized before recent major structural and workforce changes ...
Social media is a part of many people’s daily routines, and there’s growing concern about its effects on mental health. But while it often has a bad reputation, social media is not inherently ...
Postnatal mental health services are closing across the country due to a lack of funding despite record numbers of women seeking help, The Independent can reveal. One in five of the 600,000 women ...
Editor’s Note: Help is available if you or someone you know is struggling with suicidal thoughts or mental health matters. In the US: Call or text 988, the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. Globally ...
Exposure to fine particulate air pollution (PM 2.5) from wildfire smoke is linked to increased emergency department (ED) visits for mental health conditions, according to a recent study.
The unit started as a pilot program in late 2022, nearly two years after the fatal police shooting of Walter Wallace Jr., who was experiencing a mental health episode when police responded to his ...