The most important function of a mental health helpline is to connect you with treatment providers to reduce the impact a mental illness has on your functioning. All calls to a hotline are private and confidential, which can ease the discomfort about making the call for some people. When you...
According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI),one in five adultsin the United States has a mental illness. This number amounts to millions of children, adolescents, and adults. In the past century, advancements have been made in treating these conditions. Whether one lives with ...
It is important to measure the impact of the JoyPop™ app on wellbeing as it is theorized to represent an element of mental functioning that is partially independent from the presence/absence of mental illness among Canadian students [28, 36]. Resilience will be measured using the Connor-...
Mental illness, if left untreated, can get worse over time and cause serious problems. If you think you may hurt yourself or are having suicidal thoughts, get help right away by calling: 911 or your local emergency number Mental health specialist Suicide hotline number Your close friend or ...
If you or someone you know is in emotional distress or suicidal crisis, call the National Suicide Prevention Hotline at 988 or 1-800-273-TALK (8255). For more information about mental health care resources and support, The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) HelpLine can be reached ...
Haidt, J. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness (Random House, 2024). Odgers, C. L. The great rewiring: is social media really behind an epidemic of teenage mental illness? Nature 628, 29–30 (2024). Article CAS Google Schol...
Mental illness can take a variety of forms, such as anxiety, depression and phobias—but it’s often misunderstood or goes untreated. Experts compassionately discuss the medical, psychological, and spiritual aspects of mental illness, and they point listeners to sources of help. ...
Fostering hope has been shown in variousresearch studiesto help decrease symptoms of depression and improve mental health, self-esteem and the ability to function with a chronic illness. In astudy of older adults, hope was linked to better physical and mental health and health behavior outcomes....
“It’s unimaginable, hard to conceptualize, for those who don’t work in this field, what the level of need really is,” said Quinn Anderson, who manages the National Alliance on Mental Illness HelpLine, which offers referrals to all sorts of mental health support. Mental health advocates ...
July 29 2024 ReviewArts Hysterical — search for an explanation behind a wave of teenage mental illness Dan Taberski looks at the events of 2011 in a New York town when a group of girls all came down with Tourette’s-like symptoms