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Taboos and therapists who don’t understand: Mental health struggles are more complicated for BIPOC youth

11/04/2023binomo

Warning: This story contains mentions of self-harm.

The early days of COVID-19 were difficult for Zaid Baig.

Even though he’d felt unhappy long before the pandemic, the 23-year old Carleton University student said he found himself lonelier than ever. Online school felt unreal, he couldn’t see his friends anymore, his daily routine was upended.

“It kind of feels like a BlackMirror episodes,” he remembered.

It all came to a breaking point during the first lockdown.

“The isolation really created this whole idea in my head that things are not going to get better,” he said.

“And because of that, I

Peace Runners 773 uniting West Side community through holistic wellness

07/04/2023binomo

Running club providing holistic health to the West Side community

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CHICAGO (CBS) — On the West Side, one man is on a mission to bring people together through holistic wellness.

That includes mental and physical health.

CBS 2’s Jackie Kostek joined the group as they head out on a weekly run in the neighborhood.

The group met early Friday morning and got in some warmups before heading out for an eight-mile run around Garfield Park.

Jackie Hoffman who started Peace Runners 773 a couple of years ago says it’s

An Explosion in St. Petersburg Killed One of Russia’s Leading Pro-War Bloggers. Here’s Everything We Know

03/04/2023binomo

Russian police investigators inspect a damaged ‘Street bar’ cafe in a blast in Saint Petersburg on April 2, 2023 that left leading Russian military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky dead. Credit – Olga Maltseva—AFP via Getty Images

An explosion at a cafe in central St. Petersburg on Sunday killed one of Russia’s leading pro-Kremlin bloggers, according to Russia’s interior ministry.

Maxim Fomin—known by his pseudonym Vladlen Tatarsky—was a prominent military blogger whose vocal support of Russia’s war efforts had earned him as many as 560,000 followers on Telegram.

Tatarsky was conducting a meet and greet at the cafe on the bank

People Are Using ChatGPT For Therapy. Here’s What Mental Health Experts Think About That.

01/04/2023binomo

An android robot holds its hand up to its chin while listening to a man who is laying on a couch talk — BuzzFeed News; Getty Images

Kyla Lum, 19 from Berkeley, California, started experimenting with AI and was impressed with how much it resembles having a conversation with a human. In fact, the interactions in some ways reminded her of therapy.

Because she lacked the time and money for a real therapist, Lum started using ChatGPT, the AI technology that simulates human behavior and thinkingfor mental health support, “I enjoyed that I could trauma dump on ChatGPT anytime and anywhere, for free, and I would receive an unbiased response in return along with advice on how to progress with my situation,”

mental health and wellbeing in the workplace – RoSPA Workplace Safety Blog

27/03/2023binomo

More than ever before, mental health is a topic for open discussion in the media, within our social circles and of course at work. Mental health and wellbeing is all about how we think, feel and behave, and is usually caused by a reaction to a difficult life event, which can be caused or made worse by work-related issues. In particular, working in isolation away from managers and colleagues can add stress to a workforce that is already facing a significant amount of pressure.

The scale of the problem

Globally, an estimated 264 million people suffer from depression, one of

US Life Span Falling Behind Our Peer Countries

15/03/2023binomo

March 6, 2023 · 7:29 AM

From NPR:

The average life expectancy for Americans is shortened by over seven months [in 2021]according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

That decrease follows an already big decline of 1.8 years in 2020. As a result, the expected life span of someone born in the US is now 76.4 years — the shortest it has been in nearly two decades.

But we still have the best healthcare system in the world, right? Not if you judge it by life expectancy. From Health System Tracker:

Life expectancy in the

Anne Arundel Co. health officer stepping down for public health post with state

04/03/2023binomo

Anne Arundel County Health Officer Dr. Nilesh Kalyanaraman, who led the Maryland county through the COVID-19 pandemic, is stepping down from his post to take a top public health role with the state.

Kalyanaraman’s last day with the county will be March 21, before he becomes the deputy secretary for public health services at the Maryland Department of Health, according to a news release from Anne Arundel

Guardant Health, Inc. (NASDAQ:GH) Given Consensus Rating of “Moderate Buy” by Brokerages

10/02/2023binomo

Shares of Guardant Health, Inc. (NASDAQ:GH – Get Rating) have been assigned an average recommendation of “Moderate Buy” from the nineteen analysts that are currently covering the firm, Marketbeat Ratings reports. One analyst has rated the stock with a hold recommendation and thirteen have given a buy recommendation to the company. The average 1-year price objective among analysts that have issued a report on the stock in the last year is $89.00.

Several equity analysts recently weighed in on the stock. BTIG Research cut their price objective on shares of Guardant Health from $80.00 to $60.00 in a research report