Mental Health

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (140+ words) Names can be tricky for our brains to learn and remember effectively, as they usually don’t have intrinsic meaning and act merely as arbitrary tags. This often results in remembering other characteristics of a person while the actual name slips…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (612+ words) September is National Suicide Prevention Month, a time to remember those we have lost and to ask what we can do differently to prevent another death. For me, suicide prevention is personal. My husband, Don, died by suicide after months…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (90+ words) The Washington Post It’s 6:30 a.m. on a Saturday morning and I hear the pat-pat-pat of children’s feet on the hardwood floor above me, then, giggles, and I see two young boys at the top of the staircase. I hear an…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago   (612+ words) September 13, 2026 — 4:30pm Dressed for spring in yellow and pink, Chizuru Sammut stopped to listen to the birds in Sydney’s Lane Cove National Park on Sunday morning. She paused to smell some crushed myrtle leaves, which research shows boost immunity and reduce…...

1+ mon, 23+ hour ago   (100+ words) Breaking news and analysis on politics, business, world, national news, entertainment and more. In-depth DC, Virginia, Maryland news coverage including traffic, weather, crime, education, restaurant reviews and more. Ibogaine is illegal in the United States, but Texas is on the…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (1411+ words) September 12, 2026 — 5:00am Nineteen of Victoria’s 21 adult mental health and wellbeing services are failing to meet their target for admitting acutely mentally unwell Victorians to a bed within eight hours. Five years after the state government promised to fix the broken mental…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (648+ words) Alberta’s fractured health care needs to be put back together, the NDP said Thursday. At the Calgary announcement of the party’s Future of Health Care plan, a doctor and a one-time patient took the podium to deliver the diagnosis. Dr. Luanne…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (871+ words) September 10, 2026 — 7:30pm The International Sport Concussion Conference was held in Melbourne earlier this week, in the days preceding the first regular-season NFL game played on Australian soil. During Tuesday’s session, research figures from the Australian Sports Brain Bank were presented. Of…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (736+ words) A few weeks ago, my younger, and only surviving son Shawn, turned 65. Yes, the big 6-5. My “baby” is 65. What a shocker, it was, waking up to that reality. And what a blessing. I thought back to the day he was…...

5+ day, 7+ hour ago   (23+ words) The Detroit News 9/11 survivors face growing health crisis 25 years later...