Transgender Kids and Gender Dysphoria

Supporting mental health in children with gender issues Writer: Caroline Miller Clinical Expert: Paul Mitrani, MD, PhD The experience of being transgender or gender nonconforming means that a person’s gender at birth (their assigned gender) does not match the gender they feel…

November is Men’s Health Awareness Month

SilverCloud Health part of amwell November is Men’s Health Awareness Month with International Men’s Day falling on November 19th. Men’s Health Awareness Month is dedicated to bringing awareness to a wide range of men’s health issues. As we focus on men this…

Situational awareness basics — look and listen : Mental environment

U.S. Fire Administration This is the second bulletin in a two-part series on situational awareness for the physical and mental environments. In Part 1: Physical Environment, you will learn how to identify situational awareness deficiencies and open up to a broader…

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Coping with Losing a Pet – Mental Health Help

Authors: Lawrence Robinson, Jeanne Segal, Ph.D., and Robert Segal, M.A. Preface by John Riley Hello, Publisher here and I wanted to share something with you. Yesterday we lost our second pet dog, his name was Jack Jack (white and brown…

Japan’s “Hikikomori” Population Could Top 10 Million

What type of Mental Illness is this and is there a solution? Collected and published by John Riley and brought to you by Nippon.com & frontiersin.org Hikikomori has been defined by a Japanese expert group as having the following characteristics: (1)…

Celebrities Who Are Open About Addiction

 Medically Reviewed by Smitha Bhandari, MD on September 10, 2020 Robert Downey Jr. The actor says he used drugs before he was a teenager and spent most of his early career under their influence. He had several high-profile arrests in the late 1990s…

Can smartphones help predict suicide?

By Ellen Barry | The New York Times Special thanks to Japantimes.com for making this article available Katelin Cruz at a park near her home in Ware, Mass., on Sept. 1, 2022. Cruz uses a phone and FitBit to submit…

Substance use treatment for Veterans support and US Locations map guide

U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs As the resident Veteran for HereNOW Help I wanted to share the resources that have afforded many of my Veteran brothers and sisters throughout the entire United States. If you know someone who is a…

How Does a Court Ordered Mental Health Assessment Work? Is it helpful for rehabilitation.

New Directions and preface by John Riley Preface There is currently a multiple murder trial (Today is October 26th 2022) in which the defendant, Darell Brooks Jr, drove through the Waukesha, WI Christmas Parade killing 6 and injuring more than…

Almost 60 percent of pregnant teens say they have used one or more substances in the past year, nearly double the rate of non-pregnant teens, researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have found.

Use of these substances continues during pregnancy, especially among younger teens, the study found. More than one-third of all pregnant teens ages 12 to 14 said they used one or more substances in the previous month, the Austin American-Statesman reports. Pregnant teens…

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