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In the words of Max Karson "16 year olds are retards"
Why don't we just give them basic human respect?
Let's stop treating teens like shit.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/23/health/mental-health-crisis-teens.html

‘It’s Life or Death’: The Mental Health Crisis Among U.S. Teens
Depression, self-harm and suicide are rising among American adolescents. For one 13-year-old, the despair was almost too much to take.

A look at the rise of free-to-use AI chatbots claiming to help with teens' mental health struggles, as experts disagree about whether the chatbots are effective (Matthew Perrone/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/chatbots-me

New apps test AI chatbots to help mental health crisis
A growing number of AI chatbots are being pitched as a way to address the recent mental health crisis among teens and young adults. Free apps like Earkick can discuss complex emotional problems, offer guided meditation exercises and suggest ways for reframing negative thoughts. But experts disagree about whether these chatbots are delivering a mental health service or are simply a new form of self-help. It's a key question to the future of the industry, because apps that diagnose or treat menta…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16461 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_…

Large Language Models Perform on Par with Experts Identifying Mental Health Factors in Adolescent Online Forums
Mental health in children and adolescents has been steadily deteriorating over the past few years [ 1 ]. The recent advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) offers much hope for cost and time efficient scaling of monitoring and intervention, yet despite specifically prevalent issues such as school bullying and eating disorders, previous studies on have not investigated performance in this domain or for open information extraction where the set of answers is not predetermined. We create a new data…

hmm... irgendwie sehe ich gerade im Bereich #WissKomm immer mehr "Angebote" Richtung Lunch-talk, Mittagspause-input, etc.
Hat für mich viel von "Burnout Workshop für alle von 12 uhr bis halb zwei" oder das "verpflichtende Mental Health Seminar am langen Wochenende"
Aber ich hab vermutlich nur das falsche mind set.

Affective State Detection using fNIRs and Machine Learning
Ritam Ghosh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18241 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.18…

Affective State Detection using fNIRs and Machine Learning
Affective states regulate our day to day to function and has a tremendous effect on mental and physical health. Detection of affective states is of utmost importance for mental health monitoring, smart entertainment selection and dynamic workload management. In this paper, we discussed relevant literature on affective state detection using physiology data, the benefits and limitations of different sensors and methods used for collecting physiology data, and our rationale for selecting functiona…

The Hard Fork podcast talk with listeners in response to last week's guest speaker proposing we "take away social media from teens & youths" for their/our collective mental health:
https://youtu.be/YvPEoeMQROY

One thing I have yet to see much of in this #xz debacle is much if any empathy for the original project maintainer. From what I can gather they’ve been toiling away on this project for at least 2 decades, have faced mental health issues in that time that required them to take breaks from it, and that the alleged hacker potentially conned their way into a position of authority for the project.
I can…

TV in hospital waiting areas is very strange. Not just because I've never willingly watched television programming for about twenty years, but because it just seems so terribly unhealthy. Considering mental health alongside physical health, TV becomes apparent as essentially fast food. Advertising; shows about buying, renovating, and selling property; the presentation of a "post-pandemic" world that is still, in fact, in a pandemic; "news" being made and sold as a pro…

https://sanjosespotlight.com/san-jose-not-diverting-911-calls-to-mental-crisis-hotline/

San Jose not diverting 911 calls to mental crisis hotline - San José Spotlight
San Jose is struggling to divert 911 calls related to mental and emotional distress away from police, despite the county adopting the 988 mental crisis hotline two years ago to handle those situations. A recent report shows county mental health teams in 2023 responded to just 2% of nearly 60,000 San Jose 911 calls that...

I blogged about “empathic” mental health chatbots
#mentalhealth #genai #chatbots

Athlete's Mind
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Athlete’s Mind | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Athlete’s Mind Host: Tony Bellouard Category: Sport Sub-Category: Mental Health & Well Being First Episode: 2022 Welcome to The Athlete’s Mind where we talk about the mental side of the game…

PTSD crisis looms as troop shortages take toll on Ukrainian soldiers’ mental health: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/25/ptsd-crisis-looms.html

This brain implant is made to treat mental health problems #BCI #NeuroTech

This brain implant is made to treat mental health problems
Neuralink's first subject just demonstrated his BCI. And this biotech company wants to treat mental health problems with a brain implant.

Las Vegas Raiders head coach Antonio Pierce publicly sings a song about his team https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/las_vegas_raiders_head_coach_antonio_pierce_publicly_sings_a_song_about_his…

Las Vegas Raiders head coach Antonio Pierce publicly sings a song about his team
The Las Vegas Raiders are one of the few teams in the league that consistently hold Foundations, Balls, and Galas during the season and offseason. Most recently was the Silver and Black Gala, held on Saturday, March 30. They consistently give back to their community and other foundations and do things to help support great causes. The Silver and Black Gala is to provide help and hope to people struggling with mental health issues. This was the first year the Raiders have held this Gala. At this…

Out walking for the benefit of my mental and physical health. There's still snow in some places...

Here's my latest Human Meme podcast episode: ASMR: Understanding Its Impact on Mental Health, Intimacy, and Digital Culture - http://sites.libsyn.com/84966/asmr-understanding-its-impact-on-mental-health-intimacy-and-digital-c…

Advancing a Consent-Forward Paradigm for Digital Mental Health Data
Sachin R. Pendse, Logan Stapleton, Neha Kumar, Munmun De Choudhury, Stevie Chancellor
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.14548

Advancing a Consent-Forward Paradigm for Digital Mental Health Data
The field of digital mental health is advancing at a rapid pace. Passively collected data from user engagements with digital tools and services continue to contribute new insights into mental health and illness. As the field of digital mental health grows, a concerning norm has been established -- digital service users are given little say over how their data is collected, shared, or used to generate revenue for private companies. Given a long history of service user exclusion from data collect…

So many #UniversalBasicIncome #guaranteedBasicIncome experiments show success. When are we going to actually make it public policy?

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2024/03/23/police-emergency-mental-health-911

How Police Alternatives to Mental Health Calls Are Growing in the U.S.
A new generation of first responders is handling mental health calls and other emergencies in cities across the U.S.

Differential Private Federated Transfer Learning for Mental Health Monitoring in Everyday Settings: A Case Study on Stress Detection
Ziyu Wang, Zhongqi Yang, Iman Azimi, Amir M. Rahmani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.10862

Differential Private Federated Transfer Learning for Mental Health Monitoring in Everyday Settings: A Case Study on Stress Detection
Mental health conditions, prevalent across various demographics, necessitate efficient monitoring to mitigate their adverse impacts on life quality. The surge in data-driven methodologies for mental health monitoring has underscored the importance of privacy-preserving techniques in handling sensitive health data. Despite strides in federated learning for mental health monitoring, existing approaches struggle with vulnerabilities to certain cyber-attacks and data insufficiency in real-world app…

#Trump's own cabinet discussed that very thing. Silence from #Biden's...
Ken Buck unveils resolution calling on Cabinet to remove Biden under #25thAmendment | The Hill

Ken Buck unveils resolution calling on Cabinet to remove Biden under 25th Amendment
Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) introduced a resolution Monday that calls on the Cabinet to remove President Biden through the 25th Amendment, citing his mental and physical health. Buck’s resolution relies on a report released this month by special counsel Robert Hur, which cleared Biden of criminal wrongdoing for his handling of classified information after he…

'Finally, a Moral Panic I can get behind'
The Guardian: Generation Anxiety: smartphones have created a gen Z mental health crisis – but there are ways to fix it
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/…

🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio2:
#JeremyVine
- Young people and mental health & delivery drivers
Jeremy discusses young people and ill health, Islamophobia, bad backs and delivery drivers
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001whmt

The teen mental health crisis has nothing to do with porn.
Porn is all over the world, but the crisis is only in the USA.
The cause of teen suicide is the fact that we treat young adults like shit in this country.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.13452 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSI_…

LocalTweets to LocalHealth: A Mental Health Surveillance Framework Based on Twitter Data
Prior research on Twitter (now X) data has provided positive evidence of its utility in developing supplementary health surveillance systems. In this study, we present a new framework to surveil public health, focusing on mental health (MH) outcomes. We hypothesize that locally posted tweets are indicative of local MH outcomes and collect tweets posted from 765 neighborhoods (census block groups) in the USA. We pair these tweets from each neighborhood with the corresponding MH outcome reported …

Every parent needs to pay attention to how their children are using computers and how it is affecting their development.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/03/teen-childhood-smartphone-use-mental-he…

The Terrible Costs of a Phone-Based Childhood
The environment in which kids grow up today is hostile to human development.

"What impact does this endless scrutiny have on the mental health of these women?" https://globalcomment.com/what-if-kate-middleton-had-a-right-to-privacy-about-her-own-health/

In a lawsuit, four Canadian school boards seek damages of CA$4B from Meta, Snap, and TikTok for allegedly causing learning and mental health crises in students (Yuvraj Malik/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/canadia

Your guide to Proposition 1: Governor Newsom’s overhaul of California’s mental health system
Proposition 1 is the linchpin to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s solution to California’s homelessness and mental health crisis.
The measure asks voters to approve major changes to the state’s 20-year-old Mental Health Services Act to better serve Californians with substance use disorders.
A “yes” vote on the measure would also approve a $6.4-billion bond to build facilities to provide 10,000…

California Proposition 1 election voter guide: Gov. Newsom's mental health plan
Gov. Gavin Newsom crafted the measure to reform California's mental health system, including a $6.4-billion bond for new facilities.

A Piece of Theatre: Investigating How Teachers Design LLM Chatbots to Assist Adolescent Cyberbullying Education
Michael A. Hedderich, Natalie N. Bazarova, Wenting Zou, Ryun Shim, Xinda Ma, Qian Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17456

A Piece of Theatre: Investigating How Teachers Design LLM Chatbots to Assist Adolescent Cyberbullying Education
Cyberbullying harms teenagers' mental health, and teaching them upstanding intervention is crucial. Wizard-of-Oz studies show chatbots can scale up personalized and interactive cyberbullying education, but implementing such chatbots is a challenging and delicate task. We created a no-code chatbot design tool for K-12 teachers. Using large language models and prompt chaining, our tool allows teachers to prototype bespoke dialogue flows and chatbot utterances. In offering this tool, we explore te…

ADHD Her Way
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Podcast: ADHD Her Way Host: Johanna Badenhorst Category: Health & Fitness Sub-Category: Mental Health & Well Being First Episode: 2024 ADHD Her Way is a fun but informative podcast centred around all…

An interview with ITN CEO Rachel Corp, who says the news cycle has become "absolutely relentless", taking a toll on the mental health of journalists (Clara Aberneithie/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news-leaders/rachel-corp-i…

'Open up and talk about it': ITN chief Rachel Corp on newsroom mental health
Rachel Corp said the news cycle has become “absolutely relentless”, with a toll on the mental health and wellbeing of journalists.

NO on Prop 1
This is extremely important. It has massive cuts to mental health services and will be disastrous if it passes
Mental health, disability rights, and civil rights groups are against it
https://calmatters.org/commentary/2024/02/me…

Decades of progress are at stake. California voters must reject mental health ballot measure
Proposition 1, a mental health funding reform and bond measure, is a taxpayer giveaway to private facilities and will gut effective programs.

Hey everyone, we’re living in dark times. One of my most effective mental-health boosts is studying West-African drumming. You can too in most places, here are Vancouver details.
HQ: https://drumming.ca
Menu of spring courses (starting next month):

The teen mental health crisis has nothing to do with porn.
Porn is all over the world, but the crisis is only in the USA.
The cause of teen suicide is the fact that we treat young adults like shit in this country.

UGH! I hate when articles act as if kids stopped going outside because parents were afraid of "stranger danger".
Parents were afraid of their kids CROSSING THE STREET. I literally wasn't allowed to cross the street in front of my house (which was a state highway) until I was 11 or 12. The street in front of my house!

The Terrible Costs of a Phone-Based Childhood
The environment in which kids grow up today is hostile to human development.

This bodes ill for the future, courtesy of the #NatanyahuAdminsitration
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr

This bodes ill for the future, courtesy of the #NatanyahuAdminsitration
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr

🫥 Could training lay counselors address the therapist shortage?
https://www.statnews.com/2024/01/18/mental-health-therapist-shortage-lay-counselors-needed/

Amid a dire nationwide therapist shortage, could lay counselors help close the gap?
Licensing requirements make it hard to become a therapist — harder, many advocates and scientists contend, than evidence suggests is necessary.

Daaaamn. @…’s takedown of _ The Anxious Generation_ is masterful.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-coddling-of-the-american-paren…

The Coddling of the American Parent
Jonathan Haidt’s new book “The Anxious Generation” blames youth mental health issues on social media in a way that’s easy, wrong, and dangerous.

The YDS and greater Yale and New Haven communities are invited to our event “Tending to Life’s Losses: A Conversation About Mental Health and the Black Church” on Saturday, April 13.
Get details and register here:
https://buff.ly/3TyRSax

Social media is a lifeline for mental health, not a curse, according to CDC's own data | Salon.com
https://www.salon.com/2024/04/12/social-media-is-a-lifeline-for-mental-health-not-a-curse-according-to-cdcs-…

Very sad day in the hockey world. We don't know how or why Chris Simon died yet, but I'll suggest it that unless it is some sort of unknown medical condition, it's likely hockey-related (concussion, brain damage, mental health, etc). And Konstantin's death is a suicide.
Hockey has some very very deep problems that it needs to deal with.
Condolences to all the families and friends.

Addressing Social Misattributions of Large Language Models: An HCXAI-based Approach
Andrea Ferrario, Alberto Termine, Alessandro Facchini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17873

Addressing Social Misattributions of Large Language Models: An HCXAI-based Approach
Human-centered explainable AI (HCXAI) advocates for the integration of social aspects into AI explanations. Central to the HCXAI discourse is the Social Transparency (ST) framework, which aims to make the socio-organizational context of AI systems accessible to their users. In this work, we suggest extending the ST framework to address the risks of social misattributions in Large Language Models (LLMs), particularly in sensitive areas like mental health. In fact LLMs, which are remarkably capab…

I think they're still on HB1028, relative to the definition of mental illness for purposes of the New Hampshire mental health services system, which is also kinda autism-related... they're debating the difference between "having a mental illness" vs. "being intellectually disabled" (or if there even is one), and which (if any) autism should count as

Grow Therapy, which provides services like patient-provider matching and EHR to help therapists run their own practices, raised an $88M Series C led by Sequoia (Heather Landi/Fierce Healthcare)
https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/he…

Mental health tech startup Grow Therapy snags $88M, builds out measurement-based care tech
Grow Therapy, a mental health technology startup, picked up $88 million in fresh funding to grow its footprint and launch more partnerships with payers. | Grow Therapy, a mental health technology startup, picked up $88 million in fresh funding to grow its footprint and launch more partnerships with payers.

"What impact does this endless scrutiny have on the mental health of these women?" https://globalcomment.com/what-if-kate-middleton-had-a-right-to-privacy-about-her-own-health/

😷 New Evidence Suggests Long #COVID = Brain Injury
“these symptoms may be the result of a viral-borne brain injury that may cause cognitive & mental health issues that persist for years.”

New Evidence Suggests Long COVID Could Be a Brain Injury
Long-COVID sufferers of brain fog and memory loss exhibit elevated biomarkers consistent with brain injury.

SeSaMe: A Framework to Simulate Self-Reported Ground Truth for Mental Health Sensing Studies
Akshat Choube, Vedant Das Swain, Varun Mishra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17219

SeSaMe: A Framework to Simulate Self-Reported Ground Truth for Mental Health Sensing Studies
Advances in mobile and wearable technologies have enabled the potential to passively monitor a person's mental, behavioral, and affective health. These approaches typically rely on longitudinal collection of self-reported outcomes, e.g., depression, stress, and anxiety, to train machine learning (ML) models. However, the need to continuously self-report adds a significant burden on the participants, often resulting in attrition, missing labels, or insincere responses. In this work, we introduce…

Your guide to Proposition 1: Governor Newsom’s overhaul of California’s mental health system
Proposition 1 is the linchpin to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s solution to California’s homelessness and mental health crisis.
The measure asks voters to approve major changes to the state’s 20-year-old Mental Health Services Act to better serve Californians with substance use disorders.
A “yes” vote on the measure would also approve a $6.4-billion bond to build facilities to provide 10,000…

California Proposition 1 election voter guide: Gov. Newsom's mental health plan
Gov. Gavin Newsom crafted the measure to reform California's mental health system, including a $6.4-billion bond for new facilities.

8/9
In conclusion, the journey through the scientific literature reveals that L-carnitine is more than just a dietary supplement; it is a multidimensional agent of health, capable of facilitating fat loss, enhancing mental function, and bolstering heart health. As we continue to unravel its myriad benefits, it becomes clear that L-carnitine holds a revered place in the pantheon of nutrients essential for optimising human health.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.14138 has been replaced.
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A prototype software framework for transferable computational health economic models and its early application in youth mental health
We are developing an economic model to explore multiple topics in Australian youth mental health policy. We want that model to be readily transferable to other jurisdictions. We developed a software framework for authoring transparent, reusable and updatable Computational Health Economic Models (CHEMs) (the software files that implement health economic models). We specified framework user requirements of a template CHEM module that facilitates modular model implementations, a simple programming…

💔 Those poor children. https://journa.host/@samlitzinger/112142529500322234

LocalTweets to LocalHealth: A Mental Health Surveillance Framework Based on Twitter Data
Vijeta Deshpande, Minhwa Lee, Zonghai Yao, Zihao Zhang, Jason Brian Gibbons, Hong Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.13452

LocalTweets to LocalHealth: A Mental Health Surveillance Framework Based on Twitter Data
Prior research on Twitter (now X) data has provided positive evidence of its utility in developing supplementary health surveillance systems. In this study, we present a new framework to surveil public health, focusing on mental health (MH) outcomes. We hypothesize that locally posted tweets are indicative of local MH outcomes and collect tweets posted from 765 neighborhoods (census block groups) in the USA. We pair these tweets from each neighborhood with the corresponding MH outcome reported …

Studying Differential Mental Health Expressions in India
Khushi Shelat, Sunny Rai, Devansh R Jain, Young Min Cho, Maitreyi Redkar, Samindara Sawant, Sharath Chandra Guntuku
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.11477

Studying Differential Mental Health Expressions in India
Psychosocial stressors and the symptomatology of mental disorders are known to vary with socio-cultural environment. Mental health expressions on social media, however, are primarily informed by studies in the WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrial, Rich, and Democratic) contexts. In this paper, we analyze mental health posts on Reddit made by individuals in India, to identify variations in online depression language specific to the Indian context compared to users from the Rest of the World (ROW…

The Work Of Wellbeing
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Podcast: The Work Of Wellbeing Host: Amy Green Category: Education Sub-Category: Health & Wellness, Mental Health & Well Being First Episode: 2022 Wellness and wellbeing is essential for everyone to…

Here's my latest Human Meme podcast episode: From Tragedy to Transformation: Navigating Fame, Addiction, and Mental Health Through the Decades - http://sites.libsyn.com/84966/from-tragedy-to-transformation-…

(react to news headlines) I dislike the way COVID school closures are discussed, as if schools are blameless. My kid's school (public, mixed socio-economic area) response to mental or physical health issues has been been to mock the student & then expel them. At least 3 of my kids' friends experienced this. My kids sit through rambling lectures on how bad their generation is, how lazy & undisciplined. Any wonder why there's an increase in 'discipline problems' i.e…

..."indeed, if she resists while most of her classmates do not, she might, in fact, be marginalized, which puts her at risk for anxiety and depression, though via a different pathway than the one taken by those who use social media heavily. In this way, social media accomplishes a remarkable feat: It even harms adolescents who do not use it."

From @mmasnick:
"[Jonathan] Haidt is coddling the American parent: providing them with a clear, simple, and wrong solution to what is ailing their children...
Unfortunately for those seeking an easy solution, the data doesn’t support Haidt’s conclusions."
https://www.thed…

The Coddling of the American Parent
Jonathan Haidt’s new book “The Anxious Generation” blames youth mental health issues on social media in a way that’s easy, wrong, and dangerous.

Bother.
I had a spate of technical problems which undermined my mental health over this winter, and in the last couple of weeks I got to the point I thought I'd fixed most of them...
But I haven't fixed all of them, and continuing problems with computer connectivity in particular are leading me back towards crisis. Things are objectively better than they were, but that is very hard to cling on to.

How Art Serves as a Shield for Mental Health Art can serve as a shield for mental health in times of war by allowing individuals to express their emotions, fears, and hopes creatively. Through art, in Source : https://uacrisis.org/en/ukraine-in-flames-567

If an anxiety is entirely justifiable, is it really a mental health problem?
I mean, I probably don’t need to worry at all about Yellowstone blowing. It’s a low probability event within my lifetime & there is absolutely no chance of me changing my luck if it does; I’m gonna die.
But having the Social Security Loss Police come to my door & demand my son to be euthanized seems increasingly likely. It might not happen even if Cheetolini wins this year. Overall I'd say 10…

Biden’s budget proposal prioritizes free preschool, college affordability, student mental health
https://19thnews.org/2024/03/biden-budget-proposal-free-preschool-college-affordability-mental-health/

Biden’s budget proposal asks for free preschool, college affordability and student mental health
Congress must still approve the budget request, which includes unprecedented investments to address some of the most pressing post-pandemic education issues.

Daaaamn. @…’s takedown of _ The Anxious Generation_ is masterful.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-coddling-of-the-american-paren…

The Coddling of the American Parent
Jonathan Haidt’s new book “The Anxious Generation” blames youth mental health issues on social media in a way that’s easy, wrong, and dangerous.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17219 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csHC_…

SeSaMe: A Framework to Simulate Self-Reported Ground Truth for Mental Health Sensing Studies
Advances in mobile and wearable technologies have enabled the potential to passively monitor a person's mental, behavioral, and affective health. These approaches typically rely on longitudinal collection of self-reported outcomes, e.g., depression, stress, and anxiety, to train machine learning (ML) models. However, the need to continuously self-report adds a significant burden on the participants, often resulting in attrition, missing labels, or insincere responses. In this work, we introduce…

Mindful Builder
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Podcast: Mindful Builder Hosts: Matthew Carland and Hamish White Category: Education Sub-Category: Climate & Sustainability, Construction & Engineering, Mental Health & Well Being First Episode: 2024…

'Sometimes you just have to do things scared': Nate Hobbs shares his mental health journey with Las Vegas community https://www.raiders.com/news/sometimes-you-just-have-to-do-things-sca…

'Sometimes you just have to do things scared': Nate Hobbs shares his mental health journey with Las Vegas community
Hobbs was a panelist for a mental health summit at Pearson Community Center during Super Bowl week.

Talking openly about how Ketamine has been helpful for his mental health might actually be the only good thing Musk has done in his life.

Surprise progressive star in California capital’s mayoral race
The leading candidate to replace Sacramento’s mayor is
a progressive public health expert
running for elected office for the first time.
Flojaune Cofer has pledged to reject corporate donations,
cut police budgets in favor of workers trained to deal with issues such as mental health
and tackle the city’s spiraling homelessness crisis.
Cofer, a 41-year-old epidemiologist
who would …

Emotional Autoimmunity: Dealing With The Emotional Issues Of Chronic Illness
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Emotional Autoimmunity | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Emotional Autoimmunity: Dealing With The Emotional Issues Of Chronic Illness Host: Kerry Jeffery Category: Health & Fitness Sub-Category: Alternative & Complementary Health, Mental Health &

Bother.
I had a spate of technical problems which undermined my mental health over this winter, and in the last couple of weeks I got to the point I thought I'd fixed most of them...
But I haven't fixed all of them, and continuing problems with computer connectivity in particular are leading me back towards crisis. Things are objectively better than they were, but that is very hard to cling on to.

NYC sues ByteDance, Meta, Snap, and Google to hold the companies accountable "for fueling the nationwide youth mental health crisis" by manipulating young users (Ashley Gold/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2024/02/14/new-york-

New York City sues social media companies for negligence, public nuisance
New York City just filed a lawsuit accusing social media of stoking a youth mental health crisis.

States’ Anti-LGBTQ Moves May Have Disastrous Health Impacts, Experts Say https://truthout.org/articles/states-anti-lgbtq-moves-may-have-disastrous-health-impacts-experts-say/

States’ Anti-LGBTQ Moves May Have Disastrous Health Impacts, Experts Say
Medical professionals are worried about the long-term physical and mental effects of anti-LGBTQ legislation.

Periodic reminder to get help and help others for your and their mental health. I have severe treatment-resistant depression and I’m at my regular Ketamine appointment.

“Demise of Mothers” – Maternal Mental Conditions Drive Climbing Death Rate in U.S.
https://scitechdaily.com/demise-of-mothers-maternal-mental-conditions-drive-climbing-death-rate-in-u-s/

“Demise of Mothers” – Maternal Mental Conditions Drive Climbing Death Rate in U.S.
Policy changes, resources essential to reverse public health crisis driving “demise of mothers.” Painting a sobering picture, a research team led by Children’s National Hospital culled years of data demonstrating that maternal mental illness is an under-recognized contributor to the death of new

NYC sues ByteDance, Meta, Snap, and Google to hold the companies accountable "for fueling the nationwide youth mental health crisis" by manipulating young users (Ashley Gold/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2024/02/14/new-york-

New York City sues social media companies for negligence, public nuisance
New York City just filed a lawsuit accusing social media of stoking a youth mental health crisis.

That urge that people have to reply with “actually it’s ok to mock drug addiction and mental health issues” is really something.

Evaluating the Experience of LGBTQ People Using Large Language Model Based Chatbots for Mental Health Support
Zilin Ma, Yiyang Mei, Yinru Long, Zhaoyuan Su, Krzysztof Z. Gajos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.09260

Evaluating the Experience of LGBTQ+ People Using Large Language Model Based Chatbots for Mental Health Support
LGBTQ+ individuals are increasingly turning to chatbots powered by large language models (LLMs) to meet their mental health needs. However, little research has explored whether these chatbots can adequately and safely provide tailored support for this demographic. We interviewed 18 LGBTQ+ and 13 non-LGBTQ+ participants about their experiences with LLM-based chatbots for mental health needs. LGBTQ+ participants relied on these chatbots for mental health support, likely due to an absence of suppo…

Humans:Connecting
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Humans: Connecting | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Humans:Connecting Host: Phil McAuliffe Category: Education Sub-Category: Mental Health & Well Being, Self-Improvement & Advice First Episode: 2024 We know that loneliness is bad for us.

A look at the costs of a smartphone-based childhood, as Gen Z struggles with poor mental health and lags behind previous generations on many important metrics (Jonathan Haidt/The Atlantic)
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Touch can reduce pain, depression and anxiety, say researchers
While myriad studies have suggested #touch is beneficial for our health, few have attempted to draw the vast field of research together.
Now experts have done just that, revealing a simple message: touch helps.
Dr Helena Hartmann, a co-author of the research from University Hospital Essen, said: “More consensual touch events thr…

Humans:Connecting
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Podcast: Humans:Connecting Host: Phil McAuliffe Category: Education Sub-Category: Mental Health & Well Being, Self-Improvement & Advice First Episode: 2024 We know that loneliness is bad for us.

Youth suicide rates are higher than they have ever been. Young adults are in a massive mental health crisis. The misinformation and bigotry have deadly consequences.
https://youtu.be/mP3P-svIX0s?t=89
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There's 44 billion reasons one can deservedly criticize Musk.
Taking drugs for depression and/or being addicted to a drug (both of which are mental health issues) isn’t one of them.

How TikTok has influenced US culture and shaped Hollywood, privacy, fashion, shopping, news, music, trends, cooking, mental health, national security, and more (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com…

How TikTok Changed America
Nineteen ways the app rewired our culture.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.01348 has been replaced.
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Extended Reality for Mental Health Evaluation -A Scoping Review
Mental health disorders are the leading cause of health-related problems globally. It is projected that mental health disorders will be the leading cause of morbidity among adults as the incidence rates of anxiety and depression grows globally. Recently, extended reality (XR), a general term covering virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality (MR), is paving a new way to deliver mental health care. In this paper, we conduct a scoping review on the development and application…

Periodic reminder: get help for your mental health and help other people. I’m at my regularly scheduled Ketamine i.m. Injection.
We usually do these archetype cards to give the brain some focus during the session.

Examining the Unique Online Risk Experiences and Mental Health Outcomes of LGBTQ versus Heterosexual Youth
Tangila Tanni, Mamtaj Akter, Joshua Anderson, Mary Amon, Pamela Wisniewski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.08974

Examining the Unique Online Risk Experiences and Mental Health Outcomes of LGBTQ+ versus Heterosexual Youth
We collected and analyzed Instagram direct messages (DMs) from 173 youth aged 13-21 (including 86 LGBTQ+ youth). We examined youth's risk-flagged social media trace data with their self-reported mental health outcomes to examine how the differing online experiences of LGBTQ+ youth compare with their heterosexual counterparts. We found that LGBTQ+ youth experienced significantly more high-risk online interactions compared to heterosexual youth. LGBTQ+ youth reported overall poorer mental health,…

The Secret Sunday Session
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Podcast: The Secret Sunday Session Host: Ashlee Thomas Category: Health & Fitness Sub-Category: Mental Health & Well Being First Episode: 2023 The Secret Sunday Sessions start the conversation and…

PSA: Bashing Ketamine use for depression, just like the incessant “Trump is on Adderall” bashing, is deeply ableist and only hurts the people who actually need these medications to live.
Musk will never see your post.
But plenty of people needing these meds will and every post mentioning mental health medications in a derogatory way makes them less socially acceptable.

Pick-Me-Up Podcast
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Podcast: Pick-Me-Up Podcast Host: Kate Gandy Category: Music Sub-Category: Mental Health & Well Being, Music Commentary, Non-Profit & Charities First Episode: 2024 The weekly podcast from award…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.15461 has been replaced.
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Facilitating Self-Guided Mental Health Interventions Through Human-Language Model Interaction: A Case Study of Cognitive Restructuring
Self-guided mental health interventions, such as "do-it-yourself" tools to learn and practice coping strategies, show great promise to improve access to mental health care. However, these interventions are often cognitively demanding and emotionally triggering, creating accessibility barriers that limit their wide-scale implementation and adoption. In this paper, we study how human-language model interaction can support self-guided mental health interventions. We take cognitive restructuring, a…

We're People Like You
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We’re People Like You | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: We’re People Like You Host: Cam Solnordal Category: Health & Fitness Sub-Category: Mental Health & Well Being, Personal Stories First Episode: 2024 Whether you are living with recurring…

We're People Like You
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We’re People Like You | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: We’re People Like You Host: Cam Solnordal Category: Health & Fitness Sub-Category: Mental Health & Well Being, Personal Stories First Episode: 2024 Whether you are living with recurring…

Soulful Insights
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Soulful Insights | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Soulful Insights Hosts: Ruth Katerelos and Rebecca Harris Category: Health & Fitness Sub-Category: Mental Health & Well Being First Episode: 2024 How do we connect more fully with ourselves…