From 2005 to 2017, major depression rose by 52% among teenagers. This trend – which is most pronounced in girls born after 1995 [1] – is starkly absent in older adults. Source: Monitoring the Future: A Continuing Study of American Youth (12th-Grade Survey), 2017 [2] What’s the explanation? Complex problems […]
Exercise more effective than medicines to manage mental health, says study
University of South Australia researchers are calling for exercise to be a mainstay approach for managing depression as a new study shows that physical activity is 1.5 times more effective than counseling or the leading medications. Published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, the review is the most comprehensive to […]
Regular Trips to the Park Could Reduce Reliance on Antidepressants
Visiting green spaces can dramatically lower mental health drug use, research has found. Dropping into a park, community garden or other urban green space between three and four times a week can cut people’s chances of taking medication for anxiety or depression by a third. The positive impact – documented by […]
How Mental Health Awareness is Changing Our Culture
In this video, Kate Melgoza discusses the rise of working from home during the pandemic and how the freedom of working from home has allowed people to rediscover themselves through the lens of mental health. Full Video
Princeton Graduate SLAMS School for “Cruel” COVID Policies
Princeton Graduate SLAMS School for “Cruel” COVID Policies Dear Casey, This should not be relevant, but I will add that I am: A fully-vaccinated physician who has spent many weeks working on the Covid unit here in Los Angeles throughout the pandemic, including the early scary days with inadequate PPE […]
Seeing the World with New Eyes
For the whole of 2021, every day after meditation, I read one entry of Mark Nepo’s beautiful and brilliant “The Book of Awakening.” It’s a collection of 365 daily jewels of wisdom that, in his words, speak “about our ongoing need to stay vital and in love with this life, no […]
The Unseen Element
Is Materialism Killing Us? One of my dear friends left this earth this past week. She was a talented artist, a loyal friend, a fierce advocate. She overcame a traumatic childhood – raised by an at-the-time undiagnosed bi-polar parent – and then struggled with illness and pain in her late […]