Category Archives: Mental Health Awareness

Stress of Discrimination Can Harm Mental Health | Psych Central …

Mays calls for a better coordinated public health effort to better integrate what is known about the outcomes of discrimination into health care profiles. “We screen for mental health disorders when we are putting together an …

Social anxiety ruined my life – until I found the one place I felt at …

Social anxiety disorder seems to be rooted, as Sartre plausibly pointed out, in the fact that most of what we are is a projection of what others think of us. We should all be afraid of “the look” of another person because it's an …

mental health services for prisoners need to improve further, says …

Some improvement has been made in managing the mental health needs of prisoners, but there is still a long way to go, said Prisons and Probation Ombudsman Nigel Newcomen. Today he published a review on prisoner …

Resilience Peer Network to supplement student mental health services

Gong-Guy added the network will give students access to mental health care services different from those offered at hospitals or Counseling and Psychological Services. She added the program is in its early stages, and …

NAMI San Diego – Why Equating Mental Illness with Violence Harms …

We too often forget that those struggling with mental illness are constantly forced to fight a battle on two fronts. Not only do they have to grapple with themselves—with their own thoughts and mind—but they also have to …