Day: April 19, 2021

African-Americans

April 19, 2021

Racism’s corrosive impact on the health of Black Americans

Bill Whitaker reports on how decades of research show that racism is adversely affecting Black Americans’ health in several different ways.
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Anxiety

April 19, 2021

Healing invisible scars: How to tend to COVID- and shutdown-induced mental health wounds

When the COVID pandemic hit, doctors and mental health experts foresaw the cataclysmic problems the disease would cause — not just the deaths, but the rippling outward effects of so[…]
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Anxiety

April 19, 2021

A politician’s mental health is as crucial as a pilot’s. Why don’t we tend to it?

It doesn’t take an insurrection to acknowledge that lawmakers face high levels of stress on the job that can lead to trauma.
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Anxiety

April 19, 2021

Would universities call parents in a mental health crisis?

“What you learn once you suffer a loss like suicide is that it’s only other people who have experienced it who have got any comprehension of just how devastating it[…]
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