Mental Health
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Report: Majority of Wisconsin teens suffer from mental health issues
Mental health problems affect the majority of teens in Wisconsin with girls and LGBTQ+ teens reportedly suffering the most.
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Wisconsin researchers make surprising discovery about impacts of childhood trauma
UW-Madison researchers used data collected from more than 11,000 youth over four years to discover a new way of thinking about childhood trauma and mental illness.
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Online extremists influence kids like the Abundant Life shooter. Grieving parents are trying to stop them.
Police have yet to reveal a motive for the Abundant Life Christian School school shooting in Madison on Dec. 16, but researchers say shooter Natalie “Samantha” Rupnow had an online history that shows an obsession with violence and extremism.
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‘Don’t look for just one magic cure’ to your seasonal depression
The leading researcher on seasonal affective disorder and a mental health expert from UW-Madison discuss how to get yourself through the winter blues.
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Wisconsin researchers begin data collection for national Alzheimer’s study
Researchers at UW-Madison have completed the first brain scans in a first-of-its-kind study on Alzheimer’s disease.
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Community Living Room offers a space for social connection and support in northeast Wisconsin
A program that aims to boost social connections in a time of increasing social isolation has been facilitating pop-up events since 2023. Now, it has a permanent space of its own.
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Ascension to close small hospital, consolidate, close other services across southeast Wisconsin
The Saint Louis-based hospital system will close its “micro-hospital,” which opened in Waukesha at the start of 2021.
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US Army veteran says equine therapy center in Wisconsin saved his life
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.
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Peer-led program can help teens address mental health challenges
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.
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Death of Milwaukee alder who advocated for suicide prevention efforts shakes community
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.
