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The researchers in the US should break their outrage addiction
Researchers at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government have created a new initiative to help researchers in their training cope with mental-health challenges. The initiative aims to reduce the stigma faced by early-career researchers by improving mental-health literacy, encouraging peer-support networks, and creating structures across the research enterprise to take responsibility for mental health.
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College student explores rare mental health condition
Vargas Arango, a 24-year-old student at Miami Dade College, said in his podcast, ‘The Monsters We Create’, that he has a schizoaffective disorder, a chronic mental health condition where a person experiences symptoms of schizophrenia, such as hallucinations or delusions, and mood disorders like depression. Arango also said that he’s not dangerous. “I’m just one…
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A mental-health crisis gripping science is caused by toxic research culture
The science of mental health is emerging an epidemic in the US, Canada and India, according to a report. The report cited a study which found that rates of depression and burnout are similar with those found in high-risk occupations such as health care. “Yet the research system still tends to put power in hands…
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The example is being set by John Fetterman
US President Joe Biden held a summit on mental health and called it the “defining public health crisis of our time”. “We’re at a moment when more than half of our citizens are experiencing some sort of mental health issue,” he added. According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), over 21…
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There has been a rise in mental health visits and revisits among children.
A US Preventive Services Task Force on Tuesday recommended that doctors screen all children under the age of eight for anxiety and depression. The task force wants to reduce the number of children whose mental health conditions cannot be seen. Mental health distress among children has intensified in the last few years, a research showed.