California state Sen. Susan Talamantes Eggman (D-Stockton) teamed up with other local officials and health agencies to update the state’s current mental health system and conservatorships laws. Bill SB43 was introduced to legislators in March, which would allow for early intervention in response to an individual’s mental health crisis and update the criteria for determining if a…

Be Well OC—a mental health support system serving Orange County through a partnership of hundreds of public and private organizations and government agencies—released a report (pdf) specific to its mobile response program in Huntington Beach this week that summarized the program’s contribution to public safety and residents’ mental well-being in the past year. According to the…

Commentary The years 2020–2022 should go down in history as an epically cataclysmic failure of the intellectuals. The intellectuals were put in charge of the levers of power and utterly wrecked the social and economic order all over the world, all in the guise of virus control. Those who were not part of implementing destructive…

The U.S. Army lost 176 active duty soldiers to suicide in 2021, figures show. According to combined data from the Defense Suicide Prevention Office and a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, that’s the highest number of active duty Army member suicides on record since 1938. Suicide rates within all military…

Evidence points to better mental health support for people who’ve suffered traumatic incidents as children could prevent a lot of mass shootings. The topic of youth trauma and violence have reemerged after the massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, in which 21 people were killed by a lone 18-year-old gunman. So far this…

Just prior to B.C. scrapping plans to mandate COVID-19 vaccination for all regulated health professionals, a group of psychologists had pushed back against the policy. Shortly before that, regional health officials also pointed to evidence that vaccine mandates do not reduce transmission of the virus. On March 10, Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said…

Commentary Loneliness is poison. It is deadly. Loneliness is literally killing us. And if you just rolled your eyes, I’m especially talking to you. Over the past couple of decades, researchers have repeatedly found a direct link between loneliness and a host of physical and psychological problems, like heart disease and mental illness. Loneliness slowly dissolves us…

Nearly four in 10 working Canadians are concerned about the mental well-being of their fellow co-workers amid the COVID-19 pandemic, a new report suggests. The December Mental Health Index (MHI) by Morneau Shepell released on Wednesday, reports that 36 percent of Canadian workers are concerned about their co-worker’s mental health as the pandemic continues to…

A plastic barrier sits on a table between Debbie Drew and her father during their visits in the reception area of a long-term care home where the first Canadian died of COVID-19. Nine months later, Drew said visiting restrictions that were initially needed at facilities like the Lynn Valley Care Centre are now causing more…