Virtual Reality Therapy Plunges Patients Back Into Trauma. Here Is Why Some Swear by It.

The New York Times

An experimental treatment seems poised to address a dire mental health crisis.
 *Please note: graphic imagery used in this article

To learn more about Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy (VRET), visit The Treatment Hub.

Posted on BrainLine June 4, 2021.

The trauma of the pandemic and how reopening is driving adolescent anxiety, suicide

PBS NewsHour

According to one large hospital system in Colorado, the pandemic's emotional toll on kids has become a “state of emergency," with adolescents experiencing high rates of anxiety, depression and self-harm. Suicide is now the leading cause of death for children over the age of 10 in the state.

Posted on BrainLine June 4, 2021.

He lost five military teammates in a week to suicide. Now this veteran is trying to prevent more.

Stars and Stripes

There’s something about the gym that has always felt like therapy to Jon Klipstein. The Army veteran has tried other avenues to treat his post-traumatic stress disorder, caused by two tours in Afghanistan, but fitness seemed to help the most.

Posted on BrainLine June 3, 2021.

WORK Covid has made it harder to be a health-care worker. Now, many are thinking of quitting

CNBC

Excessive workload, failed leadership and emotional trauma left Williams facing anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder, and in July 2020, she left her nursing job to become an advocate for health-care workers.

Posted on BrainLine June 3, 2021.

The NFL Will Stop Assuming Racial Differences When Assessing Brain Injuries

NPR

 The NFL on Wednesday pledged to halt the use of "race-norming" — which assumed Black players started out with lower cognitive function — in the $1 billion settlement of brain injury claims and review past scores for any potential race bias.

Posted on BrainLine June 3, 2021.

On anniversary of George Floyd’s death, Minneapolis reflects on how it’s been forever changed

Los Angeles Times

Sherman-Conroy is a minister of social justice and advocacy at a Twin Cities Lutheran church, a single mother pursuing her doctorate at a local seminary. She’s also Native American, Oglala Lakota, from South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Reservation, where she remembers as a child meeting visiting Christian missionaries. “You can’t just send people in,” to communities traumatized by violence, she said, because, “their presence could cause more trauma.”

Posted on BrainLine May 27, 2021.

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