By Renata Hill, Moodfuel News The cold, dark months can have a profound affect on us, but simple techniques will help As we move into winter with shorter daylight hours and falling temperatures, does a cloud follow you around? Do you feel tired or sluggish, maybe even cranky, too, and

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By Alison Berg and Jeremy Moore, Rocky Mountain PBS Pain management and mental health were too challenging for traditional medications, so this woman is using prescribed ketamine DENVER — After a car crash nearly six years ago left her with bouts of chronic neck pain, anxiety and depression, Allison Foley felt

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By Matt St. Pierre, National Council for Mental Wellbeing, and Renata Hill, Moodfuel News These public services both support U.S. residents with various needs, but there are distinctions between them as well The launch of the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline (Lifeline) this past July was a historic moment

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By Marc Sallinger, 9News Number of pre-trial defendants awaiting mental health services for competency restoration tops 400 DENVER — Colorado's severe lack of mental health beds creates a series of problems. One issue with the bed shortage is that people are waiting in jail for months rather than getting

By Ahmed Aboulenein, Reuters Drug wholesalers are challenging psychiatric prescriptions available to small pharmacies A crackdown by U.S. drug wholesalers in response to the opioid crisis is preventing some pharmacists from dispensing a combination of stimulants and sedatives routinely prescribed by psychiatrists to help patients manage conditions like anxiety

By Henry Howard, American Legion Emory University works with veterans to relieve their PTSD using a VR headset and exposure therapy A soldier dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder relives the episode he cannot escape. While he navigates the Humvee through the darkness just outside Mosul, Jones is on his right,

By McKenna Princing, Right as Rain Having this discussion can be challenging, but it is essential Since the beginning of the pandemic, mental health crises and emergency department visits among youth have increased. Suicide risk is increasing among preteens, too. Nationwide, it is the second-leading cause of death among kids

By Tanmoy Goswami, Sanity Beware of the reckless boom in mental health apps "Our research has found that, in gathering data, the developers of mental health-based AI algorithms simply test if they work. They generally don’t address the ethical, privacy and political concerns about how they might be

By Travis Lupick, Yes! Magazine “Our job, as human beings, is to learn from our suffering” I've always been a rebel,” Gabor Maté says in The Wisdom of Trauma, a new documentary film about the acclaimed physician’s groundbreaking work in mental health. “In communist Hungary, in grade