Essays & Interviews

Finally, an American President Gets Serious About Mental Health
In the face of pressing economic issues and foreign policy crises, President Biden delivered a State of the Union address this week that offered important recognition of another issue that is impacting all Americans – our mental health and addiction crisis. It comes on top of a robust set of proposals on mental health his administration…
Keep reading
The Confess Project: Barbers Help Black Men Talk About Mental Health
The barbershop is the cornerstone of the Black male community. What better place to offer mental health counseling?
Keep reading
Schools Earn Poor Marks When It Comes to Kids’ Mental Health
A coalition of mental health advocacy organizations released a report card, rating each of the 50 states and Washington, D.C. on their school mental health policies. The group didn’t give out grades, but if they did, there wouldn’t be any As.
Keep reading
More Latino Men Dying By Suicide Even as National Rate Declines
U.S. suicide rates fell slightly in 2019 and again in 2020, the CDC reported last month. But there were some stark outliers. Notably, suicides among Latino men increased by nearly 6 percent.
Keep reading
What’s Behind the Protests Against Schools Trying to Boost Kids’ Mental Health?
A close look at protests over mental health programs at school suggest that the powerful forces driving them are anything but grassroots.
Keep reading
Librarians’ Mental Health Threatened By Book Bans, Abuse And Harassment
Some librarians used to make jokes about Fahrenheit 451 as they pushed back on threats of censorship. But now it hits too close to home.
Keep reading
TikTok’s Narcissism Obsession, and What It Says About Us
Narcissism as a topic is breaking out on TikTok with billions of page views. The NarcTok community is teeming with therapists and “healers” of all kinds, along with self-identified survivors.
Keep reading
We Interrupt This Program to Bring You #BlackJoy
We Black people—Black Americans in this case—know hard times, but our lives also sparkle with joy. Black joy, and not just Black trauma, is our inheritance.
Keep reading
When Positivity Becomes Toxic
We are in the #GoodVibesOnly age, and it’s kind of a bummer. The book Toxic Positivity points the way toward authenticity.
Keep reading
What to Do When the World Is Ending
I am part of a generation that feels, constantly, and even in the most mundane moments, that the world is ending. Almost every article I read these days begins with the same preamble listing all of the overlapping crises, topped off by the…
Keep readingMindSite News in your inbox.
Support MindSite News
Read more…
Policy Tracker

The 988 Crisis Hotline is Coming. Will States Answer the Call?
With the deadline for launching the 988 line just 7 months away, only a few states have enacted legislation to create and fund call centers and other services.
Keep reading