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Star Athletes Open Up About Mental Health at Healthy Minds Festival

Athletes shape how Americans picture strength, which puts them in a unique position to show that male vulnerability belongs in that picture.

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Nature Rx: A Prescription That May Save Your Life

A healthcare movement that “prescribes” time outdoors and in community to people struggling with their mental health.

A wide shot of Cornell University's campus in the fall, with students walking down a wide sidewalk.
Cornell Assault Prompts Parents to Talk With Their Sons

Sexual assault on campuses nationwide is still a grave problem.

The Unseen Toll: Depression, Anxiety Plague Black Women a Year After Being Fired by DOGE

When Trump cut DEI programs and allowed DOGE to gut the federal workforce, hundreds of thousands of Black women lost their jobs. Many are still reeling.

Exclusive: A Maternal Policy Expert Weighs in on Lindsay Clancy Mistrial

Policy expert Joy Burkhard discusses maternal mental health policy, postpartum psychosis misunderstandings, and new CA mental health parity laws.

$1 Million to Help Heal Minnesota’s Cascade of Trauma

In today's newsletter, NAMI Minnesota has launched a new grant-giving initiative to help agencies doing crucial work to support mental health.

Chicago Launches its First Psychiatric Street Team

Meet Chicago’s first Street Psychiatrist, a student of the street medicine pioneer Jim Withers. Plus, a look at the American Penal Press Contest.

Trump’s Student Loan Changes Cause Anxiety and Panic

Borrowers face rising payments under the Trump administration's student loan changes. Plus: teaching emotional literacy to teen girls, and why the new CDC youth mental health report is facing criticism.

Rumors of Kids Quitting College En Masse Are Exaggerated

This week: what the data says about Gen Z students quitting college, and why postpartum mental illness is more than depression.

Why Is Georgia Blocking Recovery Homes for Substance Abuse?

Georgia towns are using zoning loopholes to shut recovery homes down, even as addiction and mental illness surge statewide.

Why Are Mothers Punished for Parenting?

Those of us who roamed freely as kids can be arrested for letting our kids do the same.

Twenty-Five Years After 9/11, These Survivors Find Healing By Helping Others
How Football Affects Your Child’s Brain Health

For young football players, what matters is fewer years of contact and fewer hits within those years.

The Lindsey Clancy Murder Trial

Women nationwide watch the Lindsay Clancy trial and see themselves in her story, plus an investigation into hospitals that fail patients with addiction.

Grief and Rehabilitation in a California Prison

This month: a DUI offender's path to rehabilitation, Lindsay Clancy revisited, Illinois prison protests, a fatal cell fire, and Missouri's competency crisis.

Meta Pays $17 Billion Settlement for Lawsuit Over Child Harm 

Meta will pay up to $17.1 billion and reshape how its platforms operate after 47 states argued that they are harmful and also addictive to children by design.

A Little-Known Psychological Disorder Afflicting Boys and Men
Dads’ Paid Parental Leave Is Good for Families

A look at how the whole family benefits when dads receive paid parental leave.

When Protecting Kids From Risk Goes Too Far

We explore childhood independence and the psychological cost of shielding kids from risk.

How to Save a Life: Lessons From 2 Bridges, 15 Years Apart

David Bartley, a suicide prevention expert who survived an attempt himself, on what saves lives.

 How Neighbors Are Saving Lives Through Overdose Reversal

How many community people transition from life savers to ‘super savers.’

More Teens Are Turning to AI for Emotional Support

For many youth, chatbots are their primary source of guidance.

Sober Living Gyms and Hangouts Aid Addiction Recovery

This month, we look at abuse of opioid settlement funds, another state investing in the Norway prison model and a trans woman’s story about surviving solitary confinement

How to Survive Solitary Confinement

This month, we look at abuse of opioid settlement funds, another state investing in the Norway prison model and a trans woman’s story about surviving solitary confinement

Better Screening for Postpartum Psychosis Is Critical

An expert in perinatal psychiatry makes the case for changing the health system’s process of screening for postpartum psychosis.