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According To A New Study, Patients Are Texting, Smoking, Or Tweeting During Appointments
Since the start of Covid-19, telehealth platforms have been used for medical and therapy appointments. A new survey, however, suggests that during visits patients aren’t paying attention. Instead, they are doing everything from checking e-mail, to scro…
Has Covid-19 Made You Feel Lonely? Try Group Therapy
Rates of loneliness were high long before the pandemic and are only increasing. We can use technology to stay connected, but one potential intervention that is not often talked about is group therapy. Author Christie Tate provides insight into why it w…
Here’s What Five Teenage Podcasters Want Parents To Know About Mental Health
Gael Aitor, Mark Hugo, Thomas Pham, Kayla Suarez, and Isaac Hurtado are high school seniors that host the popular podcast Teenager Therapy. They often talk about mental health to their teenage listeners, but not often to their parents. Here’s what they…
8 Things Mental Health Experts Want You To Know On World Mental Health Day
In honor of World Mental Health Day, these are the 8 things mental health experts want you to know right now about mental health.
Recovery And Tutus: MTV Puts A New Face On Teenage Addiction
In telling the story of Alba, a 16 year old struggling with depression and substance use, who wears pink, tells jokes, and above all, has hope, MTV’s new docuseries 16 and Recovering, changes the image of what it means to be someone struggling with tee…
MTV Shifts The Narrative Of Teen Addiction With 16 And Recovering
MTV’s new docuseries, 16 and Recovering, which airs its final episode this week, shifts the narrative of addiction to recovery and changes how addiction in teenagers is shown on television. Experts explain how doing this helps to change the stigma surr…
On National Physician Suicide Awareness Day, A Story Of Survival
Today is National Physician Suicide Awareness Day. To honor this day, we could discuss the statistics of how 300-400 physicians die each year due to suicide. But, instead, this is the story of Dr. Justin Bullock, a resident physician with Bipolar Disor…
5 Tips A Psychologist And Holocaust Survivor Can Teach Us About Surviving
After 6 months of the pandemic, there is a constant uncertainty that we don’t know how to cope with anymore. Dr. Edith Eger, psychologist and Holocaust survivor, understands living through the uncertainty of trauma and she shares her 5 tips with all of…
How To Decrease Back To College Anxiety: Just Breathe.
With college students returning to campuses with worsening mental health and not enough counselors to see them, alternative solutions are needed for support. One possible solution is a comprehensive program which includes deep breathing, at least accor…
Buffy The Vampire Slayer Cast Reunites To Surprise Frontline Worker
A simple post in a Facebook mom group they belong to, led to a group of friends helping to reunite the cast of Buffy the Vampire Slayer in a video to surprise longtime fan and physician Alex Anderson MD.
