February 26, 2020, 11:52 AM By Eric Westervelt Houston Public Media https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/npr/2020/02/25/805469776/americas-mental-health-crisis-hidden-behind-bars/ It’s recreation time at a Los Angeles County jail known as the Twin Towers. Nearly a dozen disheveled young men stand docilely as they munch on sandwiches out of brown paper bags. They’re half-naked except for sleeveless, thick, blanket-like restraints wrapped around them […]
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Moodiness or more? How to tell if your kid’s suffering from a mental disorder
Published: February 27, 2020, 8:06 am, Updated: February 27, 2020, 7:22 pm By Kristen Rogers, CNN Click2Houston https://www.click2houston.com/news/national/2020/02/27/moodiness-or-more-how-to-tell-if-your-kids-suffering-from-a-mental-disorder/ Children’s lives may not be as hard as adults’ lives, but sometimes their moodiness and sadness are more than just a phase. Around one in six US youth ages 6 to 17 has a mental, behavioral or developmental disorder […]
Groundbreaking study on mental health reveals SECOND type of schizophrenia
PUBLISHED: 07:54, Tue, Mar 3, 2020 | UPDATED: 08:53, Tue, Mar 3, 2020 By Tom Fish Express https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1250118/mental-health-study-schizophrenia-types-variations For the first time ever, two distinct neuroanatomical variations of schizophrenia have been identified. Researchers analysed the brain scans of more than 300 schizophrenia patients in the study. The first variation shows lower volumes of grey matter in comparison to […]
Young Workers Seek Mental Health Accommodations, Employers Try to Keep Up
Feb 12, 2020 11:00 am ET By Lauren Weber The Wall Street Journal https://www.wsj.com/articles/managing-mental-health-at-work-is-a-juggle-of-rights-and-realities-11581523201 Managers and younger employees are struggling to adapt as a generation of people with higher rates of reported mental illness enter the workforce. Many of these new workers are coming to offices from colleges and high schools where they received accommodations, […]
Houston Symphony’s New Schumann Festival Explores the Composer’s Genius and Mental Illness
February 5, 2020 at 10:26am By Olivia Flores Alvarez Houstonia https://www.houstoniamag.com/arts-and-culture/2020/02/houston-symphony-s-new-schumann-festival-explores-the-composer-s-genius-and-mental-illness ROBERT SCHUMANN WAS one of the Romantic era’s most prolific and gifted composers. He was also very likely bipolar, says Dr. Richard Kogan, artistic director of the Weill Cornell Music and Medicine Program in New York City. “Schumann may be the best representative of genius […]
Mental health is becoming a priority in sports
February 9, 2020 at 8:38 PM By Jarrod Castillo USC Annenberg Media http://www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2020/02/10/mental-health-is-becoming-a-priority-in-sports/ Being in the top 1% in the world of anything must be a good feeling, right? Now imagine being in the top 1% in the world at a particular sport. Think of all the sacrifices you have made to get there, to […]
How To Move Forward After Going Through A Crisis
Jan. 21, 2020 By Becky Brasfield NAMI https://www.nami.org/Blogs/NAMI-Blog/January-2020/How-to-Move-Forward-After-Going-Through-a-Crisis After a crisis, recovery can be challenging. Our lives are left in turmoil caused by the stressful situation we just managed to overcome. With the worst behind us, we have to pick up the pieces. But unfortunately, there’s no one-size-fits-all formula for how to take steps toward the future. So […]
5 Reminders For Survivors Of Trauma
Jan. 17, 2020 By Odelya Gertel Kraybill, Ph.D., LCPC NAMI https://www.nami.org/Blogs/NAMI-Blog/January-2020/5-Reminders-for-Survivors-of-Trauma In 1991, when I was 17 and living in Tel Aviv with my family, a loud siren woke me from a peaceful sleep. We knew what it meant. We also knew we had to do. I ran, shaking and crying, with my family to our safe […]
Texas To Get Funds To Improve Suicide Prevention Lifeline
Dec 4, 2019 By Courtney Collins & Domini Davis KERA News https://www.keranews.org/post/texas-get-funds-improve-suicide-prevention-lifeline Texas Health and Human Services is getting a financial boost from the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline aimed to help more Texans get the mental health help they need. The $3 million, two-year grant will help the state’s Suicide Prevention Lifeline call centers better […]
Myths around mental illness cause high rates of unemployment
Published 8:02 am CST, Thursday, December 12, 2019 By Bandy X. Lee, Yale University Chron https://www.chron.com/news/article/Myths-around-mental-illness-cause-high-rates-of-14901276.php (THE CONVERSATION) Even though mental illness affects one in five adults – and depression is the leading cause of disability worldwide – secrecy and stigma around the issue continue. The problem is especially acute in the workplace. While individuals with mental […]
6 Ways You Can Help A Loved One On Their Healing Journey
Dec. 26, 2019 By Shainna Ali NAMI https://www.nami.org/Blogs/NAMI-Blog/December-2019/6-Ways-You-Can-Help-a-Loved-One-on-Their-Healing-J Take a moment to consider all the people in your life: your coworkers, friends, family. At any given time, 1 in 5 of these individuals is living with a mental health condition. You may have noticed them struggling, but if you’re not a trained mental health professional, you may not have […]
NAMI Board Of Directors Names Daniel H. Gillison, Jr. As New Chief Executive
Dec 18 2019 NAMI https://www.nami.org/Press-Media/Press-Releases/2019/NAMI-Board-of-Directors-Names-Daniel-H-Gillison-Jr-As-New-Chief-Executive NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, the nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to building better lives for the millions of Americans affected by mental illness and their families, today announced the appointment of Daniel H. Gillison, Jr. as Chief Executive Officer effective January 21, 2020. “On behalf […]