‘Most mentally healthy [adult] respondents are those who did not get a telephone until their late teens,’ wrote the psychologists Early smartphone use is associated with decreased mental health in adulthood, according to analysis by top psychologists of the world’s largest mental health database. The younger the age you get your first smartphone, the worse the mental health the young adult reports today, psychologist and New York University professor Jonathan Haidt and research assistant Zach Rausch wrote in a post on the Haidts blog, After Babel. This is true across…
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College student interviews the medical director of the Ohana Center for the mental health podcast
College student interviews the medical director of the Ohana Center for the mental health podcast Updated: 11:40 am PDT June 1, 2023 May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and a Bay Area college student is using her personal experience with depression and anxiety to advocate for other teens and young adults struggling with mental health issues. She has created a podcast and one of her latest episodes focuses on the Ohana Center in Monterey. The more we talk about mental health issues, the more they become normalized. I felt like…
Read MoreHHS awards funding to states, tribes and college campuses to help prevent youth suicide, part of Biden-Harris effort to address mental health crisis
The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), today awarded $5.9 million to states, tribes and college campuses for suicide prevention programs youth. Thanks to President Biden, we are finally and seriously saying to young Americans struggling with their mental health: We are listening. The support is here, HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra said. Support is here for young people through their colleges and universities, foster programs, and countless other youth service organizations. Too many young lives are cut…
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