Sage, a copper-colored Paint quarter horse, stood calmly as Devon Sachey attached a lead rope to the docile animal, leading him out of the pen at HEARTS Therapeutic Riding Center.
As an advocate of free speech, I am an unlikely person to defend the current move towards “safe spaces” and “trigger warnings” on university campuses. And I am not going to. But I am going to tell a story to illustrate that words can be weapons, and that those weapons can cause great harm.
My friend, Marsha, is the oldest of seven and the daughter of a World War II combat veteran. Marsha’s father, like most men of his generation, spoke very little about his war experiences, and what happened in the war was never directly known by most of his children.
Kiley Lyall is leading the pack as the first runner with autism to land the cover of Women’s Running magazine.
Frank Bruno leans in towards me and delivers a stare once reserved for his opponents in the ring. “I know I will have this illness for the rest of my life,” he says. “But I will never, ever, let it beat me. I am going nowhere.”
Patti LaBelle may be one-of-a-kind when it comes to her singing career, but this “Godmother of Soul” says she isn’t unique in terms of her experience as a mother. Like many women, LaBelle, too, struggled with postpartum depression.
A new system that uses a wireless implant has been shown to record for the first time how brain tissue deforms when subjected to the kind of shock that causes blast-induced trauma commonly seen in combat veterans.
Part of the Labrador retriever’s training was to sense when the demons of war had invaded Wade Baker’s dreams.
“I was having a nightmare, a flashback,” Baker, a Gulf War veteran, once told an interviewer. “And I woke up with Honor standing on my chest, licking my face.”
He tried to push his service dog away, but Honor persisted.
Bipolar disorder is a genetic medical condition. People with it experience cycles ranging from being depressed with low energy to hyperactive or manic. According to TheMighty.com, “about 5.7 million adults in the U.S. live with bipolar disorder, but the illness is often misunderstood.”
For a disorder that’s one of the leading causes of disability across the globe, depression has surprisingly few lasting treatments. Light therapy has been found to be effective for people dealing with seasonal affective disorder (SAD), but for “regular” (non-seasonal) depression the results have been more mixed. But a new randomized clinical trial suggests that fluorescent light may also work for major depressive disorder – in fact, it may even be better than medication when it comes to remission from one’s symptoms. The research, especially if they’re replicated in the future, will certainly give therapists and the rest of us some food for thought.
In his newest Vlogbrother’s video, author John Green opens up about his experience living with a mental illness — as well as one huge problem with the way we talk about it.
They have been part of our families for decades, but now animals are also helping to improve our health.
Seniors in one community continue to flock to llamas brought in as therapy animals.
“It’s pretty unusual when you say you have a therapy llama. I get some pretty weird reactions,” said therapy llama owner Niki Kuklenski.
I’m a friend, daughter, student, and activist. I am also a person who lives with generalized anxiety disorder and mild depression. Out of all the ways that I define myself, my mental illness has presented the greatest struggle, but also the greatest growth, change, and self-examination.
Amy Luxenburger rested her head on her mother’s shoulder in the back seat of the car, suspended somewhere between reality and the illness that imprisoned her mind. She stared at the birds outside.
He’s been one of the most well-liked meteorologists in the Twin Cities for decades. But 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS Morning Chief Meteorologist Ken Barlow has been living with a secret – details he shared with his morning co-anchor and friend Chris Egert.