It can make a guy feel like a Stan Roper fogey to be surprised that there really is a digital service for everything. Yes, it’s a magical world when you can use Uber to get a cab in 5 minutes to meet a person you Tinder-swiped 10 minutes ago. But crisis texting? Doesn’t counseling at that level require a personal touch, something face to face, or at least voice to voice?
New government research shows that female military veterans commit suicide at nearly six times the rate of other women, a startling finding that experts say poses disturbing questions about the backgrounds and experiences of women who serve in the armed forces.
At a coffee shop in northeast Minneapolis, a short walk from his home, Adam Levy turns over his left forearm to show the spider tattoo that his son Daniel designed. It’s from the day he and Daniel got tattoos together, a father-son outing that left him with this souvenir.
A five-year study of 1800 men found that those with an undiagnosed sleep disorder (diagnosed during the study) who were prone to falling asleep in the daytime, were four times more likely to suffer depression than those without a sleep disorder.
June marks PTSD awareness month and new statistics show the alarming number of veterans in our country who are dealing with the mental disorder, triggered by experiencing or seeing a traumatic event.
Hillary Rodham Clinton’s policy advisers held discussions with stakeholders in Iowa and New Hampshire who are involved in helping people dealing with substance abuse and mental illness, as Clinton looks to make those issues a large part of her 2016 presidential campaign.
Sara Lazar, a neuroscientist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, was one of the first scientists to take the anecdotal claims about the benefits of meditation and mindfulness and test them in brain scans. What she found surprised her — that meditating can literally change your brain.
College life isn’t easy.
Steve, my patient, fancied himself a poet, first and foremost. Brilliant, yet sadly bedeviled by schizoaffective disorder — a condition somewhere between schizophrenia and bipolar — he feared he would die before his gift was discovered. “I think I’m dying,” he said every week. His poetry reflected this preoccupation. For example:
Katie Joy Crawford, 23, has struggled with anxiety for over a decade. She says there were times when it was debilitating and staying in bed seemed far easier than facing the real world.