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Parkland Jurors Must Manage Trial Stress on Their Own
The 12 jurors chosen this past week to decide whether Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz is executed will be exposed to horrific images and emotional testimony, but must deal with any mental anguish alone.
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Wisconsin Stray Becomes Therapy Dog
A Wisconsin Police Department adopted a stray dog to the task force after it was found and trained to be a therapy dog.
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What Is Revenge Bedtime Procrastination? Experts Discuss How to Stop
More people are staying up too late as a way to reclaim control of their lives, but sleep suffers.
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A Therapist Explains Why You Might Want to Unfollow ‘Fitspo' Accounts
Many people try to use social media as a source of “fitspiration,” but obsessing over how others look can make us feel bad about ourselves, and hurt our mental health. Clinical social worker and therapist Dr. Courtney Tracy talks about how we can use social media carefully, and explains researchers’ growing concerns about social media causing suicidal thoughts in teens.
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As Demand Rises, New Tool Helps People of Color Find Therapists of Color
Even as demand for mental health care skyrocketed during the pandemic, many Black people have found it hard finding a therapist who can be culturally responsive to them.
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The Mental Health Impact of Anti-Asian Hate
The recent surge in anti-Asian hate is also triggering a demand for therapists in the Asian and Pacific Islander communities, but finding one, especially one who’s Asian, is proving difficult for many during the pandemic.
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Treating the Trauma of Adoption — For Children and Parents
We often see adoption on our social media feeds in the most glowing light — with loving adoptive parents and happy children celebrating their new family. Less often do we focus on the trauma that adoptees experience, nor do we see the difficult journey of adoptive parents. NBCLX contributor Nathan Willis explores how the trauma of adoption is treated.
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Want to Try Therapy Without a Therapist? Draw a Card.
Dr. Ebony Butler created My Therapy Cards, which encourage assessing one’s emotions, writing in a journal and many other ways of examining the self and bettering mental health. The cards can be used on your own, in a group of friends, or along with a therapist. Butler says the cards can help people who don’t have access to mental health...
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Our Mental Health Crisis: The Stigma and the Struggle to Get Help
Our country faces not one mental health crisis, but several. The first is the stigma around mental illnesses. The second is the difficulty of finding help. NBCLX contributor Alex Wohleber talks to people on the front lines of the crisis. Visit lx.com/mentalhealth for more stories and resources.
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‘It's About Humanity': California Therapy Program Helps Both Kids and Horses
Arnold Guevara started with his Huntington Beach, California-based horse therapy program two weeks after losing his dad in a work accident. “Where I grew up there was sometimes shooting and fires and things like that,” he told NBCLX. “And it gets me worried because I feel like… that’s going to happen to my family.” On one of his first...
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Black Women Lack Access to Mental Health Care. ‘My Therapy Cards' Were Created to Help
Only about 30% of Black adults with mental health issues actually receive treatment each year, according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness. Dr. Ebony Butler created “My Therapy Cards” to help Black women specifically focus on their own mental wellness.
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‘Therapy is Dope!' Removing the Stigma of Mental Health Services for Minority Communities
Therapists Eboni Harris and Eliza Boquin discuss the mission behind their initiative, Melanin & Mental Health, which is trying to expand access to therapy in communities of color by providing a directory of Black therapists and using social media, podcasts and merchandise to normalize mental health conversations.
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Coping With Coronavirus Grief: A Therapist Explains Why It's OK to Laugh in the Face of Tragedy
A growing number of people around the world are coping with some form of grief in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. For some, it is the grief of losing a loved one or a familiar way of life. It can even be grief over the loss of touch. Celebrity therapist Esther Perel explains for The New York Times how...
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Therapists Are Teaming up to Give Free Sessions to Essential Workers
CoronavirusOnlineTherapy.org is made up of more than 3,500 volunteer therapists providing free or low-cost services to frontline workers in the U.S. The group has received more than 7,000 requests in the last two weeks and a shout-out from actress Kristen Bell.
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How Surf Therapy Gives Kids With Special Needs a Day Without Limits
Before the pandemic, a surfer organization gave children with special needs a much-needed beach day
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Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker Signs Bill Banning LGBTQ Conversion Therapy
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker has reportedly signed a bill banning LGBTQ conversion therapy, a process critics decry as a harmful and medically discredited attempt to change a person’s sexual identity. The measure passed the House and Senate by overwhelming margins and went to Baker’s desk. The State House News Service reported Monday afternoon that the governor had signed the...
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Ban on Controversial LGBTQ Therapy Sent to Baker's Desk
Massachusetts lawmakers have sent Gov. Charlie Baker a bill banning LGBTQ conversion therapy, which critics decry as a harmful and medically-discredited attempt to change a person’s sexual identity. The measure passed the House and Senate by overwhelming margins in votes last week and received final enactment in both chambers on Thursday.
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Mass. Lawmakers Seek Ban on ‘Gay Conversion Therapy'
Massachusetts lawmakers are pushing legislation to ban so-called “gay conversion therapy” for minors. The legislature’s Committee on Children, Families and Persons with Disabilities moved two bills Wednesday that would make Massachusetts the 16th state to outlaw the practice — which aims to alter a person’s sexual orientation.
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Online Health Market Offering Free Therapy to New York Mets Fans
An online mental health marketplace is giving free, confidential therapy sessions to Flushing faithful who fill out a form asking for their most difficult moments as fans.