More Than a Third of Students Had Poor Mental Health During the Pandemic
New government analyses are providing a comprehensive and troubling snapshot of the mental health of America’s youth during the COVID-19 pandemic. One analysis of data from a nationally...
Calls for more perinatal mental health support, as parents neglected until at crisis point
ooking down at her newborn son, struggling to feel joy or even connection, Melissa Hocking felt completely alone. She had first raised the alarm in the final months of her pregnancy, seeing a...
Mental health patients face ‘unacceptable mortality gap’
Life expectancy of people with severe mental health problems today is the same as it was for the general population in 1950 – an “unacceptable” problem that needs urgent attention, according to the...
Aviation industry encourages pilots to come forward with mental health problems
Australia’s aviation industry has been trying to change a culture among pilots of under-reporting mental health conditions, particularly since the issue came into the spotlight during the...
ADD Risks: In Child Suicide, Most Common Mental Health Diagnosis Is Attention Deficit Disorder
Suicide is always a hard topic to address, and losing a child to suicide can be especially difficult for a family to comprehend. Although many individuals who choose to take their own lives often...
Could bad buildings damage your mental health?
Screaming sirens, overcrowding, traffic; life in the city isn’t always relaxing. These stressors aren’t simply inconvenient or irritating, though; research has suggested that urban living has a...
Can social media help maternal mental health?
She irritates your parents. She baffles your grandparents. The preoccupied young mum feeding, with one hand, organic sweet potato puree to her eager eight-month-old, and checking her Facebook...
One in Four Students Suffer From Mental Health Problems
Stress and anxiety are making day to day life difficult for hundreds of thousands of students The extent of mental health problems in UK universities has been laid bare in a new YouGov survey of...
