Category Archives: Mental Health

A new online wellbeing hub has launched today enabling Surrey residents to access a range of mental health and emotional wellbeing sessions virtually from the comfort of their own home. Surrey Virtual Wellbeing is designed to become a one-stop-shop where those who require mental health or emotional wellbeing support can view, register and access online activities including virtual coffee mornings, group chat sessions and tailored exercise classes all sessions that ordinarily would have been held face to face prior to the current lock-down measures. The Hub hosts a range of activities and support sessions from Surrey third sector organisations including Community Connections (Richmond Fellowship, Catalyst, Mary Frances Trust and their partners), Age UK Surrey and The Surrey Coalition of Disabled People Continue reading →

Judy Darcy is B.C.s Minister of Mental Health and Addictions. Arlen Redekop / PNG The COVID-19 pandemic has changed almost every aspect of our lives. Many of us are living with isolation and loneliness, financial worries, the challenges of home-schooling our kids and working from home as well as the fear of becoming sick with COVID-19. Continue reading →

To help those who are having trouble coping with isolation with current circumstances caused by the global pandemic, Rio Grande City hosted a virtual mental health summit Wednesday, offering tips and resources to deal with that newfound stress. The summit featured Rio Grande City Mayor Joel Villarreal, a licensed professional counselor; Dr Continue reading →

Zachary Oren Smith, Iowa City Press-Citizen Published 3:39 p.m. CT April 17, 2020 The new, east side University of Iowa Counseling Service location aims to make it easier for students to access mental health services.(Photo: Holly Hines / Iowa City Press-Citizen) As our state and nation continue to suffer from the deadly COVID-19 pandemic on various fronts, many Iowans will face inevitable adverse effects to their mental health. The regrettable decisions by past Iowa governors and legislators to close several mental health centers across the state are contributing to the current mental health crisis. Continue reading →

There was an afternoon in early March when I couldnt stop thinking about the first line of Philip Roths novel The Plot Against America: Fear presides over these memories, a perpetual fear. As I scoured the Inwood and Washington Heights neighborhoods for hand sanitizerwhich I eventually found, thanks to a tip from my sister-in-law, at a local smoke shopI imagined Roths words as a magical lifeline to a safe future, from which I could calmly gaze back at this desperate time. Our city was not, like that of Roths narrator, under threat from an authoritarian Presidentnot exactly, anywaybut, as the coronavirus descended, the anxiety was palpable Continue reading →

After the NCAA womens basketball season was canceled, along with all other winter and spring college sports, Carmen Tebbe Priebe headed to Carver-Hawkeye Arena anyway. Shes a sports psychologist who works with the University of Iowa athletic department, and there she found gobsmacked players and coaches eating lunch, their final meal as a team. Tebbe Priebe scanned their faces and began bracing not only for intense emotions, but for wide-ranging variability on how the news was being digested Continue reading →

NAPL;ES As more people are affected by COVID-19, the need for mental health services is at its highest. A Collier County center said theyve seen an increase in people dealing with substance abuse as well as mental health issues. Continue reading →

Experiencing intense flashbacks, nightmares, irritability, anger, and fear? In the face of a traumatic event like the Covid-19 pandemic, it's common to feel this way. While many people associate post-traumatic stress disorder with something like war, it's achronic psychiatric disorder that can occur in people who have experienced or witnessed a traumatic event, such as a serious accident, terrorist attack or a physical assault Continue reading →

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) With kids out of school for the remainder of the year, local mental health agencies say that is going to put more pressure on the need for their services. Continue reading →

MAINE, USA We have learned that COVID-19 can affect each person differently. Yet, it does not discriminate against any individual on this planet. Paula Urback, a psychiatric nurse practitioner, based out of Portland, Maine says, Don't be afraid of getting sick Continue reading →