Nexstar Broadcasting’s series debunks PTSD myths
We applaud Nexstar Broadcasting for their Mental Health Awareness series, including this piece on debunking PTSD Myths. Below is the text they composed. If you're in the greater Cleveland area and suspect that you or someone you love might be experiencing PTSD, we hope you'll reach out. PTSD is often portrayed in movies by soldiers…
Anxiety Attacks versus Panic Attacks: Mayim Bialik weighs in.
She's more than just TV's Blossom or one of the Big Bang Theory gang. Mayim Bialik also holds a PhD in Neuroscience, which she uses as a jumping-off point for articles and vlogs for her Grok Nation website. In once recent article, she addressed the similarities and differences between anxiety attacks and panic attacks, and…
What if we talked about physical health the way we
What if we talked about physical health the way we talk about mental health? The folks at attn: have created a clever video that imagines situations in which people with physical health issues are treated the same way people with mental health issues often are, and seeing these scenarios play out highlights the absurdity of…
Vice’s Noisey tackles the link between music and mental health
You know we're advocates of anything that helps raise awareness for mental health issues and destigmatize them. In that vein, we're fans of a lot of what we're seeing from Vice's Noisey in their Noisey Mental Health series. Below is the first video from this series that we were exposed to, and we may share…
PTSD affects 1 in 11 new moms… so why don’t
We're grateful to Today for shining a light on a postpartum condition that gets very little press: PTSD. There's a lot of good information about postpartum depression available to new moms now, but we'd be surprised if you've heard much about postpartum PTSD before. Here's an excerpt from Today's story, and if you're in the…
When it comes to suicide game rumors, Snopes before you
Whenever we see an article with a sticking title that's spreading like wildfire online, we check Snopes.com to see whether or not whatever it is has been reviewed by the fact-checking site. In this age of fake news or news we aren't sure is fake, this is a resource that has become invaluable. Today we…
Brooke Fox on the Unintended Consequences of Netflix’s “13 Reasons
Suicide is an issue mental health professionals deal with from the perspective of both the individuals who are contemplating or have attempted suicide and from the perspective of those who have lost a loved one to suicide. Because of this, we collectively tend to perk up when mainstream media depicts suicide-- especially as it relates to…
One mom’s perspective on raising a heroin addict
If you haven't been following the news, there's a heroin epidemic sweeping the United States, and it's particularly intense in Ohio. One of the things we've seen over and over is the effects of this epidemic on the people who love addicts-- their friends and families. This is an epidemic not just of individuals who…
Prince Harry’s First-Hand Account of How Counseling Helps
We always appreciate it when a public figure helps destigmatize mental health issues by sharing their own, and that can be especially effective when it's one of the most visible people in the world doing the sharing. In the podcast embedded below, Prince Harry tells The Telegraph's Bryony Gordon about how "he only began to…
