The invisible illness Source: Juan Pablo Arenas at Pexels, Creative Commons At the beginning of 2018, Pop star Lady Gaga cancelled the last ten dates of her “Joanne” world tour due to severe pain. The singer suffers from fibromyalgia, and in her...
Source: Juan Pablo Arenas/Pexels At the beginning of 2018, Pop star Lady Gaga cancelled the last ten dates of her “Joanne” world tour due to severe pain. The singer suffers from fibromyalgia, and in her documentary, Five Foot Two, she opened up...
Source: Matthias Zomer/Pexels COVID-19, formally known as the novel coronavirus, was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization on March 11, 2020. It has become increasingly important to understand not only the physical symptoms but also the impact on mental...
Source: Richard George Davis, Used with Permission In her Ted Talk, Barbara Amaya, a sex trafficking survivor, recounted a nightmare in which she ran away from her abusive home in Fairfax, Regina, to the streets of Washington, DC at age 12. She was recruited into sex...
Source: Callie Gibson at Unsplash, Creative Commons Prescribed medication for mental health issues works for some, but not others. In fact, a study measuring the prevalence of treatment-resistant depression (TRD) in the UK found that 55 percent of participants...
Source: Nickola Pandelides, used with permission “I think I’ve always struggled with my mental health. Even as a little girl I can remember being uncontrollably sad and stand-offish from people … I can remember feeling such sadness and hatred...
