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Mental Health and Coronavirus

Contributor: Francesca CiminoMarch 24, 2020Topics: Mental Health

Thriving in Scrubs: Mothering While Doctoring Becoming pregnant and having children is a part of life for many doctors that challenges their efforts to balance their personal and professional selves. This deeply human experience adds insight into the experiences that patients have, but adds weight to the personal demands and experiences the doctors have.

Contributor: Adam SapersteinOctober 30, 2019Topics: Distraction/Mindfulness / Mental Health / Time ManagementKeywords: child / dad / father / mom / mother / parent

Thriving in Scrubs: Doctor's Orders Why is it so hard to take our own good advice about maintaining health? We talk to Barbara, an internal medicine physician about nutrition, and consider why doctors don’t take their own advice about sleep and exercise and other good habits.

Contributor: Adam SapersteinOctober 30, 2019Topics: Burnout / Compassion Fatigue / Impaired Physician / Mental Health / Obesity/Weight / Resilience / Time ManagementKeywords: exercise / nutrition / sleep

A Soldier's Tale (by Scott Janssen) Scott Janssen is a hospice social worker and member of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization's trauma-informed care work group. His book Standing at Lemhi Pass: Archetypal Stories for the End of Life and Other Challenging Times explores the use of storytelling with hospice patients and families. "I think a lot about the guy in this story, wondering what happened to him and his wife, and hoping that the dice are always loaded in their favor."

Contributor: Jennifer ChangMarch 11, 2019Topics: Guilt & Shame / Mental Health / Mistakes

Stress, burnout and coping mechanisms in Nurse Anesthetists An increasing number of nurse anesthesia programs are identifying stress, burnout and poor coping mechanisms in their students, but the system has not been set up to address it well. This is a look at the scope of the problem.

Contributor: Francesca CiminoMarch 6, 2019Topics: Mental HealthKeywords: coping / depression / mental health / stress

One family's struggle with schizophrenia Krista Tippett talks with a family struggling with schizophrenia. This is a listen or a read (transcript)

Contributor: Francesca CiminoMarch 6, 2019Topics: Empathy&Sympathy / Illness & Disability / Mental HealthKeywords: depression / mental health / schizophrenia

When Doctors Struggle with Suicide, their profession often fails them (3 min) Doctors commit suicide at twice the rate of the general population. Significant stigma surrounds the issue of mental health care for mental health professionals, but something has to change; the cost of their deaths is far far too high.

Contributor: Francesca CiminoJanuary 29, 2019Topics: Burnout / Illness & Disability / Impaired Physician / Mental HealthKeywords: mental health / suicide

Active duty more likely to seek out MH care than veterans A stigma shift? The messaging and the access may be changing the habits of current and future generations of military personnel, but there is still a gap in how veterans seek out MH care.

Contributor: Francesca CiminoJanuary 29, 2019Topics: Illness & Disability / Mental HealthKeywords: depression / mental health / military / PTSD / veterans

Suicide in Veterinarians has become a growing problem Vets, like other medical professionals, enter the field because of their compassion for treating the lives of animals. That same drive and spirit of competition can also lead to compassion fatigue, burnout and depression. Their proximity with death - the regular task of euthanasia of animals - also sets up them to have access to tools for suicide. It's a growing crisis.

Contributor: Francesca CiminoJanuary 29, 2019Topics: Bias / Burnout / Compassion Fatigue / Death&Dying / Guilt & Shame / Impaired Physician / Mental HealthKeywords: depression / euthanasia / mental health

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