Teens don’t need to read the headlines to know that they and too many of their peers are feeling lonely, sad, anxious, and suicidal. Recent headlines, however, confirm what’s happening in their lives.
This week, a Pediatrics study documented a…
Category: Mental Illness
Netflix’s ‘Bird Box’ is blind to the issue of stigmatizing mental illness
This post contains spoilers for Bird Box.
At first blush, Bird Box’s flaws seem inoffensive, if plentiful: A poorly written script, half-baked world-building, paper-thin characters, and the waste of the talents of an Oscar-winning actress on five-yea…
The darker past of nostalgia, once a deadly mental illness
This post is part of Mashable’s You’re Old Week. Break through the haze of nostalgia with us and see what holds up, what disappoints, and what got better with time.
Asylums for the psychotic emerged in the 1800s, when it was deemed immoral to simply …
‘Broverwatch’ is a group of guys who get together to play games and talk about their feelings
At three o’clock every Sunday afternoon, a group of four British lads get together to play video games. This might sound like a pretty standard Sunday, but these chaps congregate so they can talk about their mental health, their feelings, and, well, how crap they are at video games.
They call themselves “Broverwatch.” (And, yeah, they really love playing Overwatch.)
Don’t let the project’s name fool you: Broverwatch couldn’t be further from the bro-y, alpha male get-together you might be imagining. Social media producer Duncan Vicat-Brown—one of the four “bros”—says the project started up because “men don’t talk about their feelings enough.” Read more…
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A Twitter user living with bipolar disorder has pointed out a major problem with stock imagery depicting the condition.
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There’s a problem with the way bipolar disorder is represented in stock images
A Twitter user living with bipolar disorder has pointed out a major problem with stock imagery depicting the condition.
SEE ALSO: Before and after: Women finally get their due in STEM stock photos
In a tweet thread, @Chrystran posted a series o…
Brits are angry that a man’s story about mental illness was cut from TV because of the royal engagement
When the news broke that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle had got engaged, the nation could scarcely contain its excitement. And, for much of the day, our television screens were plastered with shots and footage of the happy couple.
But, for one man wh…
How your brain responds to certain words might predict your suicide risk
When a person becomes suicidal, they don’t necessarily rush to tell friends, family, or even their doctor. They might feel ashamed of their thoughts and emotions, and wish instead for them to simply disappear.
The stigma surrounding suicide is …