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How To Know If Your Baby Blues Are Actually Postpartum Depression Each person s body and mind react to pregnancy, childbirth and its aftermath differently. As with any major life change, adjusting to motherhood can be difficult, especially when other factors may affect how you cope. It s important to know when certain behaviors should be addressed with therapy or medical attention. Postpartum depression is one of these factors that can affect your adjustment to motherhood. The condition affects 1 in 9 women, according to ... Huffington Post - Sat. Aug 4
In Detention, Troubling Cases Of Self-Harm Among Migrant Youth Under the Trump administration, hundreds of migrant children have allegedly languished in custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement ORR for months . But detention, child experts warn, can put kids at great risk, including for a well-known concern in juvenile detention Self-harm. A spate of recent lawsuits and case files have surfaced troubling evidence of young migrants self-harming in federal custody, particularly in the secure facilities that house k ... Huffington Post - Sat. Aug 4
An Immigrant Community Haunted By Suicide By Tim Henderson BALTIMORE It started in this southeast neighborhood last fall, not long after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers raided Baltimore and other sanctuary cities. In October, a popular 16-year-old Mexican-American boy died by suicide at home. The next month, a 42-year-old mother from El Salvador told her husband and two daughters to go Christmas shopping without her a puzzling request for a family who liked to shop together. When ... Huffington Post - Sat. Jul 21
How To Talk About Your Mental Health When No One Wants To Listen According to the American Psychiatric Association, people from racial and ethnic minority groups are less likely to receive mental health care than the rest of the U.S. population. Communities of color often lack adequate access to medical treatment for mental illnesses. They also face challenges like higher levels of stigma, misinformation and language barriers . While an individual may have their own [mixed feelings] toward how they think about mental he ... Huffington Post - Sat. Jul 21
Destiny's Child's Michelle Williams Reveals She's Seeking Mental Health Help Destiny s Child legend Michelle Williams candidly discussed her mental health on Tuesday and revealed to her fans that she is seeking help from professionals. The singer tweeted on Tuesday that she has encouraged others with mental health issues to seek help, and now she s taking her own advice. For years I have dedicated myself to increasing awareness of mental health and empowering people to recognize when it s time to seek help, support and guidance fro ... Huffington Post - Sat. Jul 21
The U.S. Has A Long History Of Drugging Distressed Kids In Its Custody Among the most disturbing allegations against privately operated shelters publicized last week by a Reveal and Texas Tribune investigation was the charge that the Office of Refugee Resettlement routinely administers children psychotropic drugs without lawful authorization, according to court filings. The allegations focus primarily on the Manvel, Texas-based Shiloh Residential Treatment Center, a federally funded multi-use facility that houses detained imm ... Huffington Post - Mon. Jul 2
As A Mental Health Crisis Sweeps Across Colleges, Students Step Up To Fix It For Sara Valente, the transition from high school to her freshman year at Harvard was rocky. She was homesick, anxious about making new friends and, as she puts it, obsessively comparing myself to my classmates. The stress of Harvard quickly overwhelmed me, the computer science major explains. I felt I had nowhere to turn. After a year, the teen reached out to the Ivy League school s on-campus mental health providers and began attending weekly therapy sess ... Huffington Post - Mon. Jul 2
New York, Virginia Become First States To Mandate Mental Health Education New York and Virginia are the first states to enact laws that require schools to include mental health education in their curriculums. The New York legislation, which was written in 2015 and enacted on Sunday, directs all K-12 classrooms to get instruction about mental health as part of the overall health curriculum. Virginia s law, which is set to take effect this fall, is less wide-reaching, requiring mental health education for the first two years of hi ... Huffington Post - Mon. Jul 2
Why This Man Crusades For Mental Health After Nearly 30 Years In Prison America s corrections system locks away a staggering number of people with mental health issues. An estimated 20 percent of people in jails and 15 percent in state prisons have a serious mental illness , according to a paper compiled by the Treatment Advocacy Center. Resources for these conditions aren t always available during incarceration or upon release and lack of access to care can cause a worsening of symptoms or adjustment issues after a former inm ... Huffington Post - Mon. Jun 25
How To Tell If You're In A Co-Dependent Relationship With A Friend Vanessa Hannah Bright , a therapist based in New York City, often sees a troubling pattern play out in her office. A client will come in to discuss what s going on in their life and unknowingly describe what appears to be a co-dependent friendship. A friend let s call her Diane with some unhealthy or self-destructive aspects as part of her personality often due to childhood trauma reaches out to another friend let s call her Violet for support. If Violet i ... Huffington Post - Mon. Jun 25
Being Transgender Is No Longer Considered A Mental Disorder By World Health Or... The World Health Organization will no longer classify being transgender as a mental health disorder, the public health agency announced Monday . Transgender and genderqueer identities, which WHO refers to as gender incongruence, are in a section about sexual health conditions in a newly updated version of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems ICD . WHO, which is part of the United Nations, calls the ICD a bedr ... Huffington Post - Wed. Jun 20
8 Sneaky Signs Anxiety Is Taking Over Your Life Considering that your life is a massive pile of stress we feel you , it s easy to shrug off perpetual angst as nothing more than run-of-the-mill worrying but downplaying your feelings might mean you end up ignoring clues that a more serious anxiety issue is at play. The earliest signs of an anxiety disorder are really easy to miss, mainly because there s no big event that brings our attention to our reactions think being hyperorganized or skipping a party ... Huffington Post - Wed. Jun 20

How To Know If Your Baby Blues Are Actually Postpartum Depression

Each person s body and mind react to pregnancy, childbirth and its aftermath differently. As with any major life change, adjusting to motherhood can be difficult, especially when other factors may affect how you cope. It s important to know when certain behaviors should be addressed with therapy or medical attention. Postpartum depression is one of these factors that can affect your adjustment to motherhood. The condition affects 1 in 9 women, according to ...

Huffington Post - Sat. Aug 4

In Detention, Troubling Cases Of Self-Harm Among Migrant Youth

Under the Trump administration, hundreds of migrant children have allegedly languished in custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement ORR for months . But detention, child experts warn, can put kids at great risk, including for a well-known concern in juvenile detention Self-harm. A spate of recent lawsuits and case files have surfaced troubling evidence of young migrants self-harming in federal custody, particularly in the secure facilities that house k ...

Huffington Post - Sat. Aug 4

An Immigrant Community Haunted By Suicide

By Tim Henderson BALTIMORE It started in this southeast neighborhood last fall, not long after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers raided Baltimore and other sanctuary cities. In October, a popular 16-year-old Mexican-American boy died by suicide at home. The next month, a 42-year-old mother from El Salvador told her husband and two daughters to go Christmas shopping without her a puzzling request for a family who liked to shop together. When ...

Huffington Post - Sat. Jul 21

How To Talk About Your Mental Health When No One Wants To Listen

According to the American Psychiatric Association, people from racial and ethnic minority groups are less likely to receive mental health care than the rest of the U.S. population. Communities of color often lack adequate access to medical treatment for mental illnesses. They also face challenges like higher levels of stigma, misinformation and language barriers . While an individual may have their own [mixed feelings] toward how they think about mental he ...

Huffington Post - Sat. Jul 21

Destiny's Child's Michelle Williams Reveals She's Seeking Mental Health Help

Destiny s Child legend Michelle Williams candidly discussed her mental health on Tuesday and revealed to her fans that she is seeking help from professionals. The singer tweeted on Tuesday that she has encouraged others with mental health issues to seek help, and now she s taking her own advice. For years I have dedicated myself to increasing awareness of mental health and empowering people to recognize when it s time to seek help, support and guidance fro ...

Huffington Post - Sat. Jul 21

The U.S. Has A Long History Of Drugging Distressed Kids In Its Custody

Among the most disturbing allegations against privately operated shelters publicized last week by a Reveal and Texas Tribune investigation was the charge that the Office of Refugee Resettlement routinely administers children psychotropic drugs without lawful authorization, according to court filings. The allegations focus primarily on the Manvel, Texas-based Shiloh Residential Treatment Center, a federally funded multi-use facility that houses detained imm ...

Huffington Post - Mon. Jul 2

As A Mental Health Crisis Sweeps Across Colleges, Students Step Up To Fix It

For Sara Valente, the transition from high school to her freshman year at Harvard was rocky. She was homesick, anxious about making new friends and, as she puts it, obsessively comparing myself to my classmates. The stress of Harvard quickly overwhelmed me, the computer science major explains. I felt I had nowhere to turn. After a year, the teen reached out to the Ivy League school s on-campus mental health providers and began attending weekly therapy sess ...

Huffington Post - Mon. Jul 2

New York, Virginia Become First States To Mandate Mental Health Education

New York and Virginia are the first states to enact laws that require schools to include mental health education in their curriculums. The New York legislation, which was written in 2015 and enacted on Sunday, directs all K-12 classrooms to get instruction about mental health as part of the overall health curriculum. Virginia s law, which is set to take effect this fall, is less wide-reaching, requiring mental health education for the first two years of hi ...

Huffington Post - Mon. Jul 2

Why This Man Crusades For Mental Health After Nearly 30 Years In Prison

America s corrections system locks away a staggering number of people with mental health issues. An estimated 20 percent of people in jails and 15 percent in state prisons have a serious mental illness , according to a paper compiled by the Treatment Advocacy Center. Resources for these conditions aren t always available during incarceration or upon release and lack of access to care can cause a worsening of symptoms or adjustment issues after a former inm ...

Huffington Post - Mon. Jun 25

How To Tell If You're In A Co-Dependent Relationship With A Friend

Vanessa Hannah Bright , a therapist based in New York City, often sees a troubling pattern play out in her office. A client will come in to discuss what s going on in their life and unknowingly describe what appears to be a co-dependent friendship. A friend let s call her Diane with some unhealthy or self-destructive aspects as part of her personality often due to childhood trauma reaches out to another friend let s call her Violet for support. If Violet i ...

Huffington Post - Mon. Jun 25

Being Transgender Is No Longer Considered A Mental Disorder By World Health Or...

The World Health Organization will no longer classify being transgender as a mental health disorder, the public health agency announced Monday . Transgender and genderqueer identities, which WHO refers to as gender incongruence, are in a section about sexual health conditions in a newly updated version of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems ICD . WHO, which is part of the United Nations, calls the ICD a bedr ...

Huffington Post - Wed. Jun 20

8 Sneaky Signs Anxiety Is Taking Over Your Life

Considering that your life is a massive pile of stress we feel you , it s easy to shrug off perpetual angst as nothing more than run-of-the-mill worrying but downplaying your feelings might mean you end up ignoring clues that a more serious anxiety issue is at play. The earliest signs of an anxiety disorder are really easy to miss, mainly because there s no big event that brings our attention to our reactions think being hyperorganized or skipping a party ...

Huffington Post - Wed. Jun 20