New data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that more than a quarter of young adults in the U.S. considered committing suicide in June, a staggering statistic that reveals the impact that COVID 19-pandemic has on mental health. What are the details? In a survey of …
Read More »Coronavirus pandemic leading to depression and drinking, says CDC
Americans are struggling to cope with the coronavirus pandemic after months of severe lockdowns, widespread illness and economic hardship that have fallen disproportionately on the young, minorities and those most vulnerable to financial shocks. A new study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) finds the number of …
Read More »Woman who destroyed the mask exhibit at Target: “Mental illness has really been something that has not been addressed as a result of this pandemic”
Stress and fear of COVID-19 can take its toll. Melissa Rein Lively, the woman who was filmed destroying a mask in early July on a Target TGT, + 1.18% in Scottsdale, Arizona, and posted it on social media, says he spent a week at a mental health center after the …
Read More »High-ranking Chicago police officer dies in apparent suicide
A senior and recently promoted police officer in Chicago reportedly died in an apparent suicide Tuesday morning. Chicago Police Deputy Director Dion Boyd was found by colleagues in his office at the department’s Homan Square facility on the west side of the city, CBS 2 Chicago reported. The death of …
Read More »Olympian skater Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya dies of apparent suicide at age 20
The Australian Olympic Committee confirmed the death of former junior tag team world champion Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya in Moscow. The 20-year-old fell out of the window of her sixth-floor apartment in Moscow in an apparent suicide, police sources told Russian news agencies Interfax and TASS. “The preliminary cause of death is …
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