Mental Health
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Fathers suffer from postpartum depression, too, UW-Madison professor’s research shows
A UW-Madison professor recently published research on paternal mental health and said postpartum depression can affect new parents of any gender.
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A family struggled to find mental health help for their teen girl. They are not alone.
For years, Wisconsin has boosted spending for youth mental health services. But families are still struggling to find help for their children.
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Local university offers free counseling for community members during summer months
Of the more than 57,000 adults in Waukesha County living with a mental illness, 66 percent of them go untreated.
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Froedtert has a unique approach to treating gunshot survivors. Its leaders want to replicate the model nationwide.
Southeast Wisconsin’s only level one trauma center opened its Trauma Quality of Life Clinic in 2020 to the needs of gun violence survivors beyond the hospital. New research argues its efforts have been a success.
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Conservative Wisconsin law firm taking on loneliness epidemic
Will Flanders, research director for WILL, said all political parties can agree there has been something lost in the culture that lets people connect with others who have different perspectives.
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The boundary-breaking power of fasting
Fasting is an ancient practice that’s experiencing something of a revival right now in health and fitness circles. But when John Oakes set out to explore the concept, he took it a lot deeper.
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How do we know when to call it quits?
There are two sides to giving up. The virtue of sacrifice – and the sin of despair. So how do we decide which is which? That’s the question psychoanalyst Adam Phillips asks in his newest book “On Giving Up.”
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After 4 student deaths last semester, UW-River Falls campus seeks ways to heal
In the fall, four UW-River Falls students died by suicide in less than two months. Since then, students and campus leaders have taken steps to try to keep any more students from dying. But they have sometimes disagreed on how best to move forward.
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The perils of a ‘wake-centric’ world
Psychologist Rubin Naiman says we’re not only sleep deprived, we are — perhaps more importantly — dream deprived. He tells us why we should get back to our dream states and stop living in such a wake-centric world.
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A dreaming mind, illustrated
Roz Chast talks with “TTBOOK” about her book, “I Must Be Dreaming,” where she lets us into her personal dream world through her drawings.