Day: January 24, 2021

Anxiety

January 24, 2021

Mental health experts prepare for ‘second wave’ of pandemic

Mental health experts are seeing an uptick in calls during the pandemic. However, they are preparing for when frontline workers, who the community calls for an emergency, will need help[…]
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Anxiety

January 24, 2021

Not ‘just depression.’ She seemed trapped in a downward mental health spiral. The real cause was a profound shock.

Something was clearly wrong with Blaine Butler. Her family, loath to make the 39-year-old research scientist feel worse, tried valiantly to ignore it during their 2018 Christmas Eve celebration.
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Anxiety

January 24, 2021

How Black barbers have become mental health advocates for African American men

Ray Conner traces his ambition to be a barber back to when he was a kid in Detroit. Growing up, he was abused. He watched his mother battle drug and[…]
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Anxiety

January 24, 2021

Lost touch: how a year without hugs affects our mental health

Humans are designed to touch and be touched – which is why so many who live on their own have suffered during the pandemic. Will we ever fully recover?
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