RAC Mental Health and Well-being

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Wed, 2021-01-27 15:47 — mdmcdonald

This Resilient American Communities (RAC) COVID-19 Initiative workgroup is focused on 1) Improvng mental health and well-being strategies and practices and 2) Longer-term movement toward a more just, healthy, equitable American Society for everyone shaped not only by the need to fix our problems, but also motivated to move toward a better realization of our collective aspirations through the creation of better psychosocial environments in our communities.

Acute and longitudinal individual and transpersonal challenges are clearly stemming from the despair and divisions that are degrading the resilience and regenerative capacities of American communities today. Life in our vulnerable and disenfranchised communities have already suffered greatly from systemic historical inequities.

Suffering in many American communities, especially in communities of color, is being made even more untenable from emerging 21st century challenges, which are especially acute now due to COVID-19 pandemic and syndemic impacts on our society. The discussions in this RAC Mental Health and Well-being workgroup are focused on strategies and actions to help inspire and connect those in the RAC unity of effort to engage in improving mental health and well-being in Resilient American Communities.

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Europeans report big mental health issues despite COVID easing - survey

Thu, 2022-10-06 11:15 — mike kraft

Europeans face big mental health issues despite COVID easing - survey The number of Europeans reporting "bad" or "very bad" mental health soared during the COVID-19 pandemic, even beyond the end of lockdowns, new polling showed on Thursday. Reuters Reuters

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Stress, anxiety and depression may increase the risk of long Covid-- study

Mon, 2022-09-12 10:28 — mike kraft

People experiencing psychological distress are more likely to develop long Covid after an infection, study finds People who were experiencing psychological distress before getting Covid were more likely to have long-lasting symptoms than those who were not, according to new research. NBC News

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Most clinicians treating low-income COVID patients feel morally distressed--survey

Tue, 2022-08-30 09:38 — mike kraft

Constrained by a lack of sufficient resources and faced with difficult decisions amid COVID-19 surges in the first year of the pandemic, nearly 72% of US primary care, dental, and behavioral health clinicians working in safety-net clinics report experiencing mild to intense moral distress, finds a study published late last week in BMJ Open.

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Youth mental health crisis with Sandra DeJong, MD, MSc

Thu, 2022-07-28 16:14 — John Girard

Youth mental health crisis with Sandra DeJong, MD, MSc AMA's Moving Medicine series features physician voices and achievements. Learn more in this discussion about the youth mental health crisis. American Medical Association

Dr. DeJong: Yeah, so it really is unprecedented in my experience to have both this emergency declaration and the surgeon general's advisory. And I think it really is because the situation itself is unprecedented. So what makes it an emergency? We have much higher rates of things like anxiety, depression, suicide.

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I'm tired’: Teachers face mental health crisis due to low pay, pandemic stress, scant support

Thu, 2022-07-28 15:55 — John Girard

Amid COVID, teachers face growing mental health crisis Navigating low salaries, pandemic worries and burnout: Many teachers will tell you this is the job description of modern educators. The result is an expanding mental health crisis among U.S. teachers – a problem so dire that many are leaving the profession. ***@***.*** Cronkite News - Arizona PBS

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Mental health, COVID-19 and fentanyl crisis to blame for Colorado life expectancy decrease

Wed, 2022-07-27 17:55 — John Girard

Mental health, COVID-19 and fentanyl crisis to blame for Colorado life expectancy decrease The average life expectancy in Colorado has dropped nearly three years since 2019, and experts are citing mental health, COVID-19 and the fentanyl crisis as major factors. Logan MacDonald KKTV

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Experts Say We Have the Tools to Fight Addiction. So Why Are More Americans Overdosing Than Ever?

Mon, 2022-07-18 15:43 — John Girard

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Mental Health: Teens made up larger share of U.S. sucides early in panedmic--study

Tue, 2022-04-26 10:50 — mike kraft

Teens Made Up Larger Share of Suicides Early in the Pandemic, Study Finds Across 14 states, an upward trend was seen overall, though certain states had declines Molly Walker medpagetoday

Adolescent suicides made up a larger share of suicides at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic compared to prepandemic years, according to data from 14 states.

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