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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]