Source: Noah Buscher/Unsplash My love for the horror genre began as soon as I was able to operate my VHS player. By the age of 10, I had viewed more horror films than any of my peers, or their parents. I also experienced my share of anxiety throughout...
Source: Elchinator at Pixabay, Creative Commons On December 31, 2019, China alerted the World Health Organization (WHO) about a viral outbreak in the city of Wuhan. By January 30, 2020, the WHO had declared the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV)...
Source: geralt at Pixabay, Creative Commons When she was a young girl, Danielle (name changed) was recruited into domestic sex trafficking from her long-term foster home. She was only able to leave this life once her mother regained custody of her. Sex...
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: pozaristul at Flickr, Creative Commons, some rights reserved In June of 2018, The World Health Organization released the 11th version of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11). For the first time, Gaming Disorder would be included...
Source: Joris Voeten at Unsplash, Creative Commons Every year, thousands of fire breathers convene in Black Rock City, Nevada, on Labour Day weekend for an event called Burning Man. People come from far and wide to perform fire acts and to observe the burning of a...
Source: rafabordes at Pixabay, Creative Commons In 2017, a father from Victoria, British Columbia, pleaded for his 15-year-old daughter to seek rehabilitation for an opioid addiction. He was terrified that by the time she realized she required treatment, it would be...
Source: angus mcdiarmid at Flicker, Creative Commons, some rights reserved Since the recent Zac Efron movie depicting serial killer Ted Bundy, the media have been shocked by the admiration many have expressed toward him. Netflix expressed their disapproval on Twitter....
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: John Henry Fuseli/Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain As a child, I would sometimes find myself wide awake in bed, but unable to move. Some nights, I would hear voices in my room, as I felt invisible forces pinning me down. When I would finally regain control of...
