Mental Health News

Gen Z: Back to the Future
Gen Z’ers may be driving sales of flip phones in an effort to disconnect from the harmful effects of omnipresent social media. Also in this edition: Investigating LBGTQ suicides in Utah. How queer ecology helped a gay man embrace his identity. Late diagnoses for some women with ADHD. And more.

An Awakening – and a Wakeup Call
In an astonishing development, a woman who was catatonic for two decades with a diagnosis of schizophrenia was treated for lupus and…woke up, opening a new avenue of psychiatric treatment. Plus: The biggest problem with plans that force people into mental health treatment is also the simplest, an opinion writer declares: It’s forced.


One Mind Accelerator Helps Startups Tackle the Toughest Problems in Mental Health
Eleven startup companies graduated form a 10-week accelerator program – and eacgot a $100,000 investment from One Mind, a nonprofit working to develop better treatments for mental illnesses. The goal is to launch a new set of companies that can address some of the most urgent unmet needs in mental health.

Why AI Bots Should Not Work a Hotline
Another warning of why a chatbot doesn’t belong on a counseling helpline. Dr. Greenberg on taking a pause. More families with trans kids flee red states. And more.

Promoting Asian American mental health
A bill aimed at better addressing mental health needs in Asian American communities was reintroduced in Congress. And incarcerated moms try to work through the grief of losing the right to parent their children.

Ukraine: Life During Wartime
War isn’t only about bombs, bullets and deaths on the battlefield. It is also about people away from the fighting, struggling to maintain a modicum of normalcy and hope in their daily lives.

Ukraine: Life During Wartime
War isn’t only about bombs, bullets and deaths on the battlefield. It’s also about people away from the fighting, struggling to maintain a modicum of normalcy and hope in their daily lives. In this three-part series, we learn about the lives of people living away from the front line and we hear from a Ukrainian…

#DisabledJoy Lives On
Two new MindSite News stories look at #DisabledJoy and the slow progress of 988 awareness campaigns. Plus a diversion program is getting people with mental illness out of jail and into treatment. The latest news on ketamine, and more.


The 988 Crisis Lines’s Growing Pains
A MindSite News Original explores the first 9 months of the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.


Few People Know About the 988 Lifeline – and Many Who Do Fear Calling it Will Lead to a Police Response
Almost a year after the launch of the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, only 13% of U.S. residents know the line exists and what it’s for – and many of those who do know are afraid that calling it will summon the police, according to a new survey.


New warning on teen mental health
The Surgeon General calls for immediate action on social media dangers for kids The grief of parenting without our own parents. Millennial dads stop up to the plate. And more.

Do Grief Dreams Help Ease Loss?
A look at how racism affects the mental health of Black youth, sometimes at an early age. Scientists challenge the “toxic culture” and mental health crisis in academic science.
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