Category Archives: Mental Health

WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAW) -- Alarming data revealed by the youth risk behavior survey showed nearly 20% of students do not feel safe at school in Marathon County, and suicide plans and attempts are going up. Continue reading →

Erin Spicer, Staff Writer | Read All About It was a student-organized event that focused on promoting mental health and using forms of self-expression such as slam poetry as a positive emotional outlet. The gathering began with a brief address from one of the licensed counselors from the Counseling Center on campus Continue reading →

Voters in the New Jersey towns of Metuchen and Collingswood both passed property tax increases dedicated to shoring up the state's ailing psychiatric care infrastructure. NJ.com reports that the referendums were placed on the ballot amidst increasing concerns about teen and youth suicide, which are at their highest point since the 1990s. In 2017, 100 suicides were reported among the 15- to 24-year-old age group Continue reading →

Hall Health and the Counseling Center the UWs two mental health service facilities are facing a major supply and demand dilemma. With roughly 30 mental health professionals serving over 47,000 students (a ratio of roughly one counselor to 1,700 students), wait times to see a counselor can be several weeks. Continue reading →

Eating alone, once considered an oddity, has become commonplace for many across the Western world. Fast food chains are promoting eating on the go or al desko. Why waste time in your busy day sitting down at a table with others Continue reading →

BOISE "Spring 2014, I had bumps that were starting to appear on my neck and face and stuff, we didnt know what it was," said David Kinnaman, a patient at St. Luke's Mountain States Tumor Institute Continue reading →

Cuts in mental health beds have gone too far, leading to the shameful practice of patients being sent hundreds of miles from home to be treated, according to psychiatrists. Continue reading →

Minister of State for Mental Health and Older People, Jim Daly will visit Clonmel on Tuesday November 19 to meet with people campaigning for the re-opening of acute psychiatric beds in Clonmel. Hundreds of people took to the streets of Clonmel in September to protest about the under-resourced mental health services in Tipperary, and Minister Daly has been under increasing pressure since then to visit the town. Minister Daly, on a previous visit to Clonmel, described the closure of St.Michaels psychiatric unit as a wrong that had been done and he expressed a desire to put that right. Continue reading →

Photo by Tina Liu | The Rice Thresher Illustration by Tina Liu By Amy Qin 11/6/19 4:02pm Content warning: This piece contains references to suicide, which can be triggering. The 24/7 Wellbeing hotline number is 713-348-3311 Continue reading →

A meta-analysis recently published in The Lancet Psychiatry found that using medicinal cannabinoids to treat mental health disorders cannot be justified, due to a lack of evidence of effectiveness and known risks of the substances. The analysis reviewed 83 studies involving 3000 people from 1980 through 2018 Continue reading →