Category Archives: Mental Health

The treatment of mental health conditions appears to have received a boost with a recently announced research collaborationbetween digital mental health company SilverCloud Health and Microsoft Research. The partnership was designed to further step up the formers online offering with artificial intelligence Continue reading →

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - A Cedar Rapids woman is sharing her story about mental health, and she's finding that it's helping other people to open up too. Anne Harris Carter was born and raised in Cedar Rapids. Continue reading →

Ismael Rodriguez Lopez was shot in the back of the head inside his home in July 2017 after police in a Mississippi suburb of Memphis went to the wrong home looking for an assault suspect. Now an attorney for the city of Southaven is arguing that Lopezs familys $20 million federal lawsuit should be thrown out because the 41-year-old Lopez, who was in the country illegally and had a criminal record, had no constitutional protections. If he ever had Fourth Amendment or 14th Amendment civil rights, they were lost by his own conduct and misconduct, attorney Katherine Kerby wrote in a Sept Continue reading →

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Everyone knows building a company is difficult but how many really realize how brutal the process actually is? 583 million people which is 8% of the worlds population are now devoting their lives to entrepreneurship. An alarming 72% of these entrepreneurs are affected by a mental health condition! Naturally, deteriorating mental health and the failure to cope with it often becomes the reason several business owners give up on their ideas and hard work, and opt-out of the industry owing to the inability to deal with business failure Continue reading →

Christopher Robbins | Photodisc | Getty Images Cases of burnout have been increasing at an alarming rate in recent years among millennials and Gen Zers. Continue reading →

DENVER Every day that Janet van der Laak drives between car dealerships in her sales job, she keeps size 12 shoes, some clothes and a packed lunch a PB&J sandwich, fruit and a granola bar beside her in case she sees her 27-year-old son on the streets. Jito, come home, she always tells him, using a Spanish endearment. There he can have a bed and food, but her son, Matt Vinnola, rarely returns home. Continue reading →

There has been a boom in online therapy companies over the past several years. Millions of Americans deal with mental illness each year, and more than half of them go untreated. As the mental health industry has grown in recent years, so has the number of tech startups offering virtual therapy, which range from online and app-based chatbots to video therapy sessions and messaging. Continue reading →

Note: This post talks about mental health and suicide. For anyone struggling, please reach out to the National Suicide Prevention Hotline (1-800-SUICIDE), which is available 24 hours a day to help you Continue reading →

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Counseling Services strives to deliver evidence-based clinical practices, create a university-wide culture of mental health awareness and wellness, and promote an awareness of the mental health resources available on campus. Continue reading →