Mental Health

The Saint Louis-based hospital system will close its “micro-hospital,” which opened in Waukesha at the start of 2021. 

Trinity Equestrian Center in Eau Claire offers equine therapy to veterans — for free. One man who served in the U.S. Army for 29 years says the center saved his life.

Sources of Strength is a nationally-recognized suicide-prevention program active in hundreds of Wisconsin schools. Advocates say it is one of the few prevention programs that has research behind it showing it can work.

In 2019, Jonathan Brostoff — then a state lawmaker — was picked to serve on the Speaker’s Task Force on Suicide Prevention. In a guest column he wrote, he revealed he had a direct connection to the issue and had attempted suicide in the past.

A new behavioral health program at Carroll University in Waukesha is successfully helping students treat anxiety and homesickness, according to the program’s founders. 

Learning how to balance what to do for yourself and others is what Joy Jordan of Appleton hopes caregivers can learn through her teachings of mindfulness.

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison say people with clinical depression could potentially be helped by treatment involving psilocybin, the psychoactive ingredient in magic mushrooms.

For nearly eight years, a Wisconsin mother who lost her son has dedicated her life to normalizing conversations of mental health after suicide in and around Fond du Lac.

“The students who are most engaged in school are more than four times as likely as the least engaged students to strongly agree they have a great future ahead of them and are 10 times more likely to strongly agree they feel prepared for the future,” the survey found. 

Michael Perry is in La Crosse for an event highlighting the need for mental health resources taking place at The Pump House on Sept. 14.