Welcome to the 2016-17 school year – it’s off to a steamy start. Does the start of the new school year fill a child you know with dread and anxiety? Do the academic and social pressures of high school make…
NEWARK - Mental Health of Licking County will hold a walk and candlelight vigil at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday for suicide prevention awareness at Flory Park. T-shirts are available to the first 75 registrants. Candles will be lit to honor loved…
NEWARK - Mental Health America and the Newark Wildcats are holding a 3-on-3 basketball tournament Aug. 6 at Newark High School in memory of Lou Mitchell. The event is being held to raise awareness for suicide prevention, and cost is…
Earlier this month, a co-worker and I were talking about what has been happening around our country, most recently the deaths of Alton Sterling in Louisiana, Philando Castile in Minnesota and five police officers in Texas. We were talking about…
Mental Health America of Licking County sets outing Mental Health America of Licking County is hosting the Lou Mitchell Memorial Golf Outing for Suicide Prevention on July 25 at Moundbuilders Country Club. Registration begins at noon with a simultaneous start…
Mental Health America mourns the victims in the tragic shootings in Orlando, Florida, at Pulse Orlando Night Club. Our thoughts and prayers are with the families, victims and everyone who has been affected by this horrific event. Emotional distress, anxiety…
The word " concentration" has many meanings. This article is about its psychological meaning: it expresses the human ability to focus on one thing and devote one's entire attention to it. In the ideal case, one "forgets" everything else -…
NEWARK - Samantha Gillespie struggled with depression. Her home life wasn't the best, she said. The 15-year-old Newark High School sophomore felt like she was invisible and that her life didn’t mean anything to them. But she kept her grades up so her parents…
We often hear the clinical terms used by doctors and other professionals to identify the symptoms of mental illnesses but if someone hasn’t gone through it, would they recognize it? Often, clinical terms don’t do justice to what life with…
Stress is something we all have in our lives and it often gets a bad rap. We need stress – it’s what excites and motivates us. It’s when stress becomes overwhelming – or turns from eustress, the good variety, to…
