#mental health

#mental health

"I made this record in December 2024 and it was a way for me to process what was happening in my life," Allen said, "There are things that are on the record that I experienced within my marriage, but that's not to say that it's all gospel... It is inspired by what went on in the relationship."

During Pastor Appreciation Month, we include our gratitude for the support of the pastor's wife. Spiritual spouses are viewed differently than their faith-leading husbands. Although there are plenty of benefits, both emotional and spiritual, of serving within the leadership of a faith community, there are challenges as well. A pastor's wife is expected to be kind, compassionate, sympathetic, supportive, patient, gracious, long-suffering, and the list goes on. She is required to be, in a word: perfect. Yet this unrealistic expectation can be tempered through realistic strategies of coping and support.

Remember working during COVID? While healthcare workers, first responders, and restaurant employees still had to show up in person, many others suddenly found themselves working from home, logging into Zoom meetings in pajama pants. For some, the isolation was tough. Others loved more time with family, the freedom to work from anywhere, and not having long commutes. Some people even traded expensive city apartments for more affordable homes or resort-style locations.

One of my neighbours who has lived here for 40 years said he has never seen anything like it,

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I'm weird. I can be more open in some ways with audiences than I can in interpersonal relationships. Look, I've lived and learned over time. I've been a toxic person in my life. I'm not great at relationships. I used to do a joke where I think I'm about 85 percent woke and the other 15 percent I keep to myself.

We look at loneliness in the digital world, where everyone is connected but no one is connecting. From rising suicide levels to surveys showing how Gen Z is the loneliest generation ever, we look at the reasons behind this global sentiment. We ask: Is the digital world helping or hurting our ability to truly connect? What happened to communities that support their members? Presenter: Stefanie Dekker Guests: Larissa May Founder, #HALFTHESTORY Tracey Mark Psychiatrist and author

Ever get caught in a negative thought spiral? It can happen after a minor inconvenience or misunderstanding, like when you forget to buy oat milk or your friend doesn't immediately text back. Instead of laughing it off, your brain overthinks it - I suck at everything, nobody likes me, etc. - and suddenly it feels like the world is ending.

Microplastics have become an unavoidable part of our daily life, embedded in packaging and clothing, and found in our oceans, in the air we breathe, and in the water we drink. But in recent years, scientists and clinicians started exploring a new question: Could these invisible fragments also be making their way into our brains, and if so, what might that mean for our mental health?

Shildt expanded on his decision in an interview with the San Diego Union-Tribune's Kevin Acee yesterday, and said that his mental stress with the job was compounded when he received some death threats late in the season. Acee also explored some of the internal criticisms leveled at Shildt by some Padres staffers, including the view that Shildt had a short temper and was too quickly heated over any questions about his decision-making or thought process. With Shildt giving the Padres players a wide berth to police their own clubhouse, Shildt was accused by some of micro-managing and being too harsh with his coaches and other team staff members.

She wrote she attempted suicide on her birthday, Sept. 11, and subsequently spent 18 days in a mental health facility. She said she sent the letter after being "filled with guilt, shame, and grief." "I had not been found out; in effect, I turned myself in," Wallace said in the Oct. 5 letter, adding that while she was in the hospital, she'd given the church a list of account numbers and passwords so her "actions could be more easily discovered."

"As we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our 'treat adult users like adults' principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults," Altman writes. Earlier this month, OpenAI hinted at allowing developers to create "mature" ChatGPT apps after it implements the "appropriate age verification and controls." OpenAI isn't the only company dipping into erotica, as Elon Musk's xAI previously launched flirty AI companions, which appear as 3D anime models in the Grok app.

I ended up getting quite down because of the difficulties I was encountering, and then I didn't work for a little while; but I'm delighted to say that I am now working again.

There's an often-quoted adage that says, "Be kind to everyone you meet, because you don't know what they're going through." It asks us to acknowledge that life can be difficult for everyone, regardless of how happy or successful they seem on the surface. This is the theme that will resound in your head as you view "Katharina," a raw, deeply honest, and awe-inspiring film following Katharina Hartmuth over an 12-month period starting in 2024.

The world's population is living longer than ever. According to the latest Global Burden of Disease report, published Sunday in The Lancet, life expectancy worldwide is 20 years higher than in the middle of the last century and now averages 76 for women and 71 for men in wealthy countries, both are over 80. The risk of death is falling across the planet, and populations are generally healthier. But it's not all good news.

Can training a goshawk cure grief? Or treat it, in some way? Will keeping it indoors hooded so that it remains calm and then taking it out hunting allow you to reconnect radically with nature in a way that prissy townies will never understand? Or is this just a domesticated festival of cruelty to both bird and prey and a symptom of serious depression?

The world faces an emerging crisis of higher death rates among teenagers and young adults, according to a major study on the causes of death and disability worldwide. The reasons vary from drug and alcohol use, and suicide in North America, to infectious diseases and injuries in sub-Saharan Africa, the researchers said, but warned that their data should serve as a wake-up call.

When students arrive in the morning, I.S. 27 collects the phones for the full school day, even during lunch and free periods. Kids adjusted quickly. One of Sepulveda's students, with no phone for distraction, brought a SpongeBob LEGO Set to use during recess. The activity got the girl and her classmates talking, so much so that they ran out of time to build it that first day.

I was on maternity leave and, looking back, I may have been having a manic episode. I'd had a long string of admin jobs that I hated. Usually, it was the case that I didn't know what my job was and nobody else did either. When I was 29, I thought: I haven't really done anything creative or put myself out there. Here I am with two kids, what am I doing? So I signed up for an open mic night.

These kinds of thoughts can sneak in when you're tired, overwhelmed, or having a particularly hard day. One thing goes wrong, then another, and suddenly you're not just having a bad moment, you're spiraling into a brutal internal monologue. It's the opposite of a pep talk. It's a judgment talk. And it's exhausting. That harsh inner voice doesn't make you stronger; it drains you.