Mental HealthOct 6, 2025
7 Reasons Why Body Positivity Is a Mental Health Movement
Body positivity is often framed as a cultural trend about self-love and diverse beauty. But at its core, it is much more than ...
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Mental HealthOct 5, 2025
Anxiety in autumn: Causes and what helps
Anxiety in autumn, or fall, can occur due to changing light levels. As the sun rises later and sets earlier, people may feel ...
Mental HealthOct 5, 2025
Breaking the Silence: Men, Mental Health, and Addiction Recovery
For generations, men have heard that they have to tough it out, push through, and never show weakness. While resilience is ...
Mental HealthOct 5, 2025
Hidden cellular “power switch” could transform Parkinson’s treatment
Researchers uncovered a key cellular regulator, PP2A-B55alpha, that controls both the cleanup of damaged mitochondria and the creation of new ones. In Parkinson’s disease models, reducing this regulator improved symptoms…
Mental HealthOct 5, 2025
Damsels in distress: Women’s mental health matters
Women are more prone to certain types of mental health conditions such as eating disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder and ...
Mental HealthOct 4, 2025
How Amarachi Igwilo is tackling maternal, mental health
Preventive healthcare remains one of the most effective strategies for reducing global disease burdens. Nigerian nurse researcher ...
Mental HealthOct 2, 2025
A single dose of psilocybin may rewire the brain for lasting relief
Penn researchers found that psilocybin can calm brain circuits tied to pain and mood, easing both physical suffering and emotional distress in animal studies. The compound works in the anterior cingulate cortex…
Mental HealthSep 30, 2025
Statement from Laura Chanchien Parajón, MD, MPH, Director (Acting), CDC's National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, on the passing of Suzy Ellis, Tips From Former Smokers® participant
We extend our deepest condolences to Suzy's family, her friends, and all who cared about her.
Mental HealthSep 29, 2025
The Defensive Line And Suicide Prevention For Underserved Communities
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Eric Wood writes about college mental health and ...
Mental HealthSep 29, 2025
What's Driving the Suicide Crisis?
Suicide remains a mental health crisis in the United States. According to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, suicide ...
Mental HealthSep 29, 2025
Growing Up With a Mentally Unwell Parent: Three Core Themes
What is it like to grow up with a parent who struggles with mental illness? This was the central question of a study conducted by ...
Mental HealthSep 29, 2025
Languishing In Loneliness: How People Cope In A Commodified World
Just like Anjan Chatterjee, many people sought professional help after relying on Siri for emotional support. Humans naturally ...
Mental HealthSep 26, 2025
Staggering Data Reveals Why Men Avoid Addressing Mental Health Struggles
Regardless of who you are, anyone struggling with mental health is going through an extremely tough daily battle, and that ...
Mental HealthSep 26, 2025
CDC expands Listeria outbreak to include more prepared meals
3 additional illnesses and 1 additional death have been reported in this outbreak.
Mental HealthSep 24, 2025
Theoretical model uses neuroimaging data to link brain alterations to schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is a chronic mental health disorder characterized by hallucinations, delusions, disorganized thinking and atypical ...
Mental HealthSep 24, 2025
For-profit corporations are buying up more psychiatric hospitals. Some flout federal law with scarce repercussions.
This article originally appeared on ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The ...
Mental HealthSep 24, 2025
CDC Reports Latest National Data on Syphilis in Newborns and Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs)
New CDC data shows U.S. cases of newborn syphilis increased for the 12th consecutive year in 2024
Mental HealthSep 23, 2025
CDC Report Finds Sharp Rise in Dangerous Drug-Resistant Bacteria
A CDC report found a dramatic increase in a dangerous type of drug-resistant bacteria.
Mental HealthSep 23, 2025
How dehydration secretly fuels anxiety and health problems
Not drinking enough water could intensify stress responses. Researchers found that under-hydrated individuals had cortisol levels more than 50% higher during stressful situations. Poor hydration didn’t make participants…
Mental HealthSep 22, 2025
Understanding Barriers to Mental Health Care for Rural Americans
MISSION, Kan., Sept. 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- (Family Features) Rural America is experiencing a mental health emergency.
Mental HealthSep 22, 2025
Psychiatric hospitals turn away patients who need urgent care. The facilities face few consequences.
This article originally appeared on ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The ...
Mental HealthSep 18, 2025
Lake County Suicide Prevention Coalition highlights ongoing efforts
In observance of Suicide Prevention Awareness Day, the Lake County Suicide Prevention Coalition continues to remind the community ...
Mental HealthSep 17, 2025
New survey shows rural Pennsylvanians face lack of mental health care
A new survey of residents in rural parts of the United States, including rural Pennsylvania, shows many face challenges in ...
Mental HealthSep 17, 2025
Serious mental illness often brings rapid weight gain – but support is missing
Being diagnosed with a serious mental illness like schizophrenia or bipolar disorder often brings an overlooked challenge: rapid ...
Mental HealthSep 16, 2025
Why so many young kids with ADHD are getting the wrong treatment
Preschoolers with ADHD are often given medication right after diagnosis, against medical guidelines that recommend starting with behavioral therapy. Limited access to therapy and physician pressures drive early…
Mental HealthSep 16, 2025
Stress measured in hair could predict depression and anxiety in children
Researchers from the University of Waterloo discovered that measuring long-term stress through children’s hair samples can reveal early signs of mental health risks in those living with chronic physical illnesses…
Mental HealthSep 15, 2025
What is body image?
World of Wellbeing is the vodcast series that's all about how to look after you and your mind. In this episode, wellbeing and ...
Mental HealthSep 15, 2025
AIISH organises workshop on ‘Prevention of Self-harm and Suicidal Behaviours’
The Department of Clinical Psychology, All India Institute of Speech and Hearing (AIISH), Mysuru, organised a workshop on ...
Mental HealthSep 14, 2025
Sleepless nights may raise dementia risk by 40%, Mayo Clinic reveals
Chronic insomnia may do more than leave you groggy, it could speed up brain aging. A large Mayo Clinic study found that people with long-term sleep troubles were 40% more likely to develop dementia or cognitive…
Mental HealthSep 13, 2025
Preventing suicide needs everyone’s input. Here’s how the GAA plays its part
It was World Suicide Prevention Day on Wednesday. Maybe you noticed, or maybe it passed you by. Maybe the world’s on fire and ...