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Dec 23, 2024 · MindSite News is a new nonprofit, nonpartisan digital journalism organization dedicated to reporting on mental health in America.
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Sep 27, 2021 · A new, editorially independent, digital publication focused on mental health, resilience and recovery The U.S. and much of the world is in the midst of a deepening and poorly understood mental health crisis – a crisis that was festering long before the COVID-19 pandemic. The enormous increase in mental and psychological suffering during the pandemic […]
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1 day ago · The Night Parade: A genre-bending memoir that helps reshape the cultural narrative on bipolar illness, grief and family (from January 2024)Jami Nakamura Lin. Debut author Jami Nakamura Lin has always struggled with what she calls “the tidy arc of the typical mental illness memoir, the kind whose trajectory leads towards being ‘better,’ though the writers usually don’t pretend they are ...
The Real Cause of the Youth Mental Health Crisis? No Free Play
Apr 25, 2024 · Youth mental health crisis rooted not in cell phones, but in lack of free play, new research suggests Kaspars Grinvalds/Shutterstock. When my children were in elementary school in Berkeley, California, I gradually became aware of two worrisome trends: hardly any kids on our street played together in the neighborhood after school, and there was an inordinate focus on academics and testing.
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School Shooting: Beyond Thoughts & Prayers Is Mental Health
Sep 17, 2024 · While it’s common for children and teens who experience a school shooting to have immediate reactions to trauma, such as trouble sleeping or concentrating, only a small portion will go on to develop post-traumatic stress disorder, said David Schonfeld, a developmental-behavioral pediatrician who directs the National Center for School Crisis and Bereavement at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.
Mental health giving rises a bit but still too low - MindSite News
Sep 25, 2024 · An Interview with Kristen Ward. Ever since some preliminary research in 2018 from the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for High Impact Philanthropy found that only 1.3% of all dollars donated by foundations and philanthropists went to mental health, the sector has been called out for giving too little attention – and too few dollars – to address a critical need.
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MindSite News: Press clips from our 2021 launch to the present MindSite News: A website that reports exclusively on mental health launches this week. Peter Early. PeteEarly.com, October 1, 2021. Hiding in Plain Sight: Finding Healing for Mental Illness. Kee Dunning. Forbes. March 16, 2022. MindSite News, a digital publication focused on mental health news, […]
New Findings on PTSD - MindSite News
Dec 13, 2023 · Good morning, MindSiters! A new study may help get to the bottom of why post traumatic stress syndrome is so hard to treat: It suggests episodes of post traumatic stress are processed as happening in real life rather than in the past.
The Case for Hope - MindSite News
May 20, 2024 · “Mukhtar taught me that we humans are endowed with strength – and hope – that, if we recognize it and flex it, can achieve the impossible,” Kristof writes in an essay for the New York Times titled “The Case for Hope.”Some of the words that appear most often in this newsletter, like “mental health” and “depression,” never come up.