Category Archives: Mental Health Awareness

What I Wish I Could Tell My Doctors After Experiencing Postpartum …

depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. I remember my first checkup in both instances. They screened me for postpartum depression after giving me a half-hearted, barley empathetic assurance that in pregnancy “things …

If Prisoner Sarah Reed Was Denied Mental Health Care her Death …

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Opinion: Increased funding needed for students' mental health support

During the past legislative session, $10 million was appropriated to help schools provide school-based mental health services. Glenace Edwall, director of the state Human Services Department's mental health services, said …

mandatory mental illness screening and the drive … – InvestmentWatch

by Ron Paul. undefined. The United States Preventive Services Task Force recently recommended mandatory depression screening for all Americans. The task force wants to force health insurance companies to pay for the …

Zika virus raises issues of both abortion rights and disability rights

Chloe Angyal writes in the Huffington Post about how the Zika virus may put abortion rights and disability rights on a collision course, although the causal connection between Zika and birth defects has not been established.