College students are facing a serious mental health crisis, driven in part by the pandemic. After nearly two years of remote schooling, restricted gatherings, and constant Covid testing, many students are anxious, socially isolated, depressed—and are overwhelming campus mental health centers. According to a nationwide survey of college students conducted by the Healthy Minds Network […]
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How to Use Nervous Energy to Your Advantage
By: Chloe Carmichael, Ph.D., clinical psychologist, author, “Nervous Energy: Harness the Power of Your Anxiety” Editing a speech so many times that when you’re about to present, you botch all your important lines. Stressing over your first-date outfit because it just isn’t perfect — to the point that you’re now late…and more frazzled than before. […]
Majority of Adults Stressed by Mass Shootings
ONE-THIRD OF U.S. ADULTS SAY FEAR OF MASS SHOOTINGS PREVENTS THEM FROM GOING TO CERTAIN PLACES OR EVENTS Hispanic adults more than twice as likely as white non-Hispanics to say they experience mass shooting-related stress often or constantly A large majority of adults in the United States are stressed by mass shootings, and a third […]