Category: Mental Health
An urgent and persuasive warning about the toll of ‘phone-based childhoods’ At the start of the 2010s, rates of teenage mental illness took a sharp upward turn, and they have been rising ever since. Among US college students, diagnoses of depression and anxiety more than doubled between 2010 and 2018. More worrying still, in the […]
The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt – a pocket full of poison The Guardian
“Anxiety is not cute” analysis of twitter users’ discourses on romanticizing mental illness BMC Psychiatry
How we’re applying neuroscience to advance mental health research | News | Wellcome Wellcome Trust
Scaling up mental health care and reducing stigma World Health Organization (WHO)
ADHD medications deliver surprise bonus benefits New Atlas
Building a sense of community key to improving people’s mental health News-Medical.Net
Mental health culture risks ‘normal anxieties’ being labelled illness, says Mel Stride Express
Measure, a win for governor but criticized by disability rights advocates, will raise $6.4bn for housing and treatment facilities California voters narrowly approved a measure that will dramatically restructure the state’s mental health system. The Associated Press called the race two days after polls closed. Proposition 1, which was the only statewide measure on California’s […]
What Gavin Newsom’s Prop. 1 means for mentally ill Californians CalMatters