mental health

The 12 jurors chosen this past week to decide whether Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz is executed will be exposed to horrific images and emotional testimony, but must deal with any mental anguish alone.

Jesse Aleman’s job as a concrete pourer was affecting his mental health. So he made a big change: He quit his job and started selling plants from a street cart. And he achieved viral TikTok fame in the process.

President Joe Biden on Saturday signed the most sweeping gun violence bill in decades, a bipartisan compromise that seemed unimaginable until a recent series of mass shootings, including the massacre of 19 students and two teachers at a Texas elementary school.

The family of Army Spc. Michael Wargo keeps his memory alive while grieving Wargo’s death by suicide. Wargo’s family is helping heroes deal with PTSD and hopefully save lives.

People in crisis and those trying to help them will have a new phone number — 988 — to reach the national suicide prevention network starting next month, but some mental health professionals worry they will not be ready to handle the anticipated flood of calls.

TODAY’s Carson Daly speaks to NBC10’s Lucy Bustamante about a friendship formed with his Peloton instructor is helping shine a light on mental health struggles of young people.

NBC10 and the Today Show are focusing on the mental health of teenagers in our ongoing “Mind Matters” series. NBC10’s Lucy Bustamante shows us how teen suicides have devastated the Downingtown Area School District and what’s being done to stop it.

“I’ve been struggling since ‘Bridgerton,’ this is the truth,” Ruby Barker wrote alongside a video posted to Instagram on May 26. “Thank you all for supporting me, your love holds me up.”

More military veterans have died by suicide than in combat over the past two decades. NBC10’s Lucy Bustamante speaks to Navy vet Jimmy White about how he lost his way and struggled mentally after leaving military service and his message to other vets that help is available....
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Selena Gomez joined first lady Jill Biden and U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy at the White House on Wednesday for a conversation about youth mental health. The singer/actor has been public about her own struggles. In 2020, Gomez revealed that she had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Gomez, Biden and Murthy held a conversation with a group of young people...

A first-of-its-kind home in our area is providing a family-like setting for adults with chronic mental illness in Elwyn, Pennsylvania. Charles Widger explains why funding Clark’s Manor was so important to his family.

Since the pandemic started, experts have warned of a mental health crisis facing American children.

“Goals are dumb,” says Emmanuel Acho, an author and former NFL and Texas Longhorns linebacker. Setting hard goals (get drafted in the first three rounds of the NFL Draft, be married by age 26) was only setting him up for disappointment when things didn’t work out exactly as envisioned. So he developed a new outlook on life and wrote a...

“We’re in the middle of what appears to be a completely unprecedented mental health crisis predating COVID among America’s teens,” says Ed Howard of the Children’s Advocacy Institute. Howard explains how platforms like Instagram and TikTok are designed to keep you scrolling for as long as possible, plus a new California bill that would hold the apps’ developers accountable if...

Maren Morris shares her experience with postpartum depression: “I know that I’m not the only one.”

Want to boost your kids’ confidence and social intelligence? A child psychologist says providing reassurance and validation can make a world of difference. Here’s how parents can do that.

The researchers behind the the 10th annual World Happiness Report say average life evaluations have remained “remarkably resilient during Covid-19.” Here’s what that means.

Finland has been named the world’s happiest country for the fifth year in a row, according to an annual report.

People have always complained about work in therapy, one therapist says, but now they’re feeling more empowered to take action.

Food and mental health are inextricably linked, says Harvard nutritionist and brain expert Dr. Uma Naidoo. Here are the six brain-boosting foods most Americans lack in their diet.