Blog Topic: Mental Health

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  On Your Mark, Get Set… Wait, Stop, I Can’t Do It!

  May 16, 2019

  Brandon Brooks is a star, there’s no denying that. The Philadelphia Eagles’ starting right guard is a two-time Pro Bowler who was indispensable in the team’s first-ever Super Bowl victory. He’s also thrown up every morning before a game since his second year in the NFL, six seasons ago.

  Psychology Psychiatry Mental Health
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  Eating Disorders Do Not Discriminate: Trans Teens Face Greater Risk

  March 28, 2019

  The signs and symptoms of eating disorders are similar across the gender spectrum, but experts say that transgender people may face additional hurdles to diagnosis and treatment.

  Mental Health Addiction Behavioral Health Brain and Behavior Community
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  How Gen Z Can Swap Burnout for Breakthroughs

  March 21, 2019

  No generation can claim a monopoly on stress, but young people do experience unique challenges all hitting at a developmentally vulnerable time. Headlines like to target the troubles of much-maligned Millennials, but doing so misses a growing threat: the already-suffering mental health and early-onset burnout of Generation Z.

  Mental Health
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  Zero Shades of Grey: Living with BPD

  May 02, 2018

  Kristen is stuck on a roller coaster. It’s not a gentle, kid-friendly coaster, but a seemingly endless stretch of extreme hills and terrifying drops, with a safety harness that keeps threatening to snap off. Sometimes the car goes full Final Destination 3 and flies off the tracks altogether – but when she opens her eyes, she’s ascending that first hill again. And again. And again. It’s exhausting. At 22, Kristen was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder.

  Psychiatry Psychology Mental Health
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  It’s an Emotional Day in the Neighborhood

  April 02, 2018

  A few weeks ago, the internet had a meltdown. Unsurprising, I know, but there was something different this time. The catalyst: the trailer for an upcoming documentary about the genre-defining children’s TV show, Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. Perhaps the emotional outpouring was pure nostalgia, but it’s possible that it’s both deeper and simpler than that: the show made kids feel seen and valued, and that played a critical part in their mental health and development.

  Mental Health Psychology Psychiatry General Interest
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  Making Mental Health Care a Global Health Priority

  September 22, 2017

  Depression is the leading cause of illness and disability worldwide. To help raise awareness about it, the World Health Organization launched a global campaign, called “Depression: Let’s Talk,” to encourage health care providers and people who are living with mental illness to seek the treatment they need.

  Mental Health Global Medicine
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  “Snowflakes” and Selfies: Misconceptions of Millennial Self-Care

  August 07, 2017

  Between “killing” entire industries (chain restaurants, breakfast cereal, napkins, etc.), documenting the aforementioned murders via Snapchat, and finding new ways to combine healthcare and the arts, us Millennials are rather busy—but we leave plenty of time in our full schedules to worry. So I took to Twitter to ask my peers about the health concerns that keep them up at night.

  Mental Health Behavioral Health Psychology
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  The Dickens Tradition

  May 06, 2016

  Helen O. Dickens, left, in 1975 Trailblazer. Heroine. Exemplar. These are just some of the descriptive names that can be applied to Helen O. Dickens, MD, who joined Penn’s department of Obstetrics and Gynecology in 1956 and was the first female black board-certified OB/GYN practitioner in Philadelphia. Among her other...

  Community Community Diversity Family Medicine and Community Health General Interest Human Interest LGBT Maternity Mental Health OBGYN Patient Care Patient and FamilyCentered Care
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  Shedding More Light on Postpartum Depression

  January 04, 2016

  Oscar-winner Gwyneth Paltrow suffered from it. “Friends” and “Cougar Town” star Courteney Cox did too. Brook Shields and Marie Osmond both penned memoirs about their experiences with it. “Nashville” star Hayden Panettiere openly admitted seeking treatment for it in real time in the hopes of helping other sufferers. Just as...

  Behavioral Health Family Medicine and Community Health Mental Health Neonatology and Newborn Services Neonatology and Newborn Services OBGYN Pennsylvania Hospital Psychiatry Womens Health
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  Brain Injury Revisited

  October 14, 2015

  Image by Graham Perry This summer, one of the National Football League’s most honored linebackers, Junior Seau, was inducted into the league’s Hall of Fame -- posthumously. The Dallas Morning News described him as “probably the most dynamic player of his era.” But only Seau’s family attended the induction: the...

  Brain and Behavior General Interest Human Interest Mens Health Mental Health Neurodegenerative Diseases Neurology Neurosurgery Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Penn Medicine Magazine