Mental Health

Seasonal Affective Disorder, commonly called SAD, doesn’t just occur when the days get shorter and colder, it also can happen when they are longer and warmer, said Jean Lubeckis, a Franciscan Alliance licensed mental health therapist. Although less...

For more than 50 years, one health system's mental health division has stood above all others in delivering compassionate and expert care to some of society's most vulnerable members. In the 1960s, St. Catherine Hospital of East Chicago opened...

Depression isn’t new among pregnant women, but antidepressants may not provide the answer they’re seeking. Pregnancy and depression can go hand-in-hand—13 percent of women develop this mood disorder pre- and postpartum—according to the U.S....

Sometimes the worst thing someone can do is nothing at all. When bullying happens and it’s witnessed, no solution will be found if that witness won’t stand up for what’s right. So here, in the second of the three part series about workplace...

It’s all over the news, we hear about it from friends and family, and we see it in real life: bullies. Bullying is a real thing and it’s happening every day. Right now the spotlight is on what’s happening to our youth with cyber bullying and...

LaPorte County Drug Free Partnership is initiating the Youth Mental Health First Aid program to train members of the public to improve mental health literacy – helping them identify, understand and respond to signs of mental illness. Youth Mental...

LaPorte County Joins National Initiative to Increase Mental Health Literacy LaPorte County Drug Free Partnership is initiating the Youth Mental Health First Aid program to train members of the public to improve mental health literacy – helping them...

Stressed out? The AMA has noted that stress is the basic cause of more than 60% of all human illness and disease. Here are some quick tips to help us all regain some control.

The Purdue University North Central Counseling Center and the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) will co-sponsoring an "In Our Own Voice" presentation on Tuesday, March 4, at noon in the PNC Library-Student-Faculty Building Assembly Hall,...

Intuition: That Inner Whisper will be presented Wednesday, Feb. 12, at the new program time: 6:30-8:00 p.m., taking place at La Porte New Church Swedenborgian, 812 Indiana Avenue. Each Health & Spirituality program offers an enlightening and...