Apple
Prince Harry and Oprah Winfrey s documentary series focusing on mental health awareness is heading to Apple TV+ later this month.
Titled
The Me You Can t See
, the show will feature Winfrey and the Duke of Sussex discussing mental health journeys and emotional well-being with a number of high-profile guests, including Lady Gaga, Glenn Close, and NBA players DeMar DeRozan and Langston Galloway. Winfrey and Harry will open up about their own experiences too.
With conversations transcending culture, age, gender, and socioeconomic status, the goal of the series is to challenge stigmas around mental health and let viewers know that they re not alone. Producers behind the show also teamed up with 14 accredited and respected experts and organizations from around the world to help shed light on different pathways to treatment, according to Apple.
The panel in our May 6, 2021 Life Interrupted webinar (clockwise from upper left): HONOLULU Magazine’s Robbie Dingeman, Kathleen Rhoads Merriam, Allana Coffee, Mestisa Gass, Dan Chun, Dr. Josephine Horita.
Dr. Josephine Horita, psychiatrist at the Kāhala Clinic for Children & Family, reminds her patients that we’ve learned a lot about living through upheaval and most of us now have a tool kit for surviving what’s ahead. “To help reduce anxiety is to reflect as a family, as a community to say what works, and let’s have that as a manual.”
First Presbyterian Church of Honolulu Pastor Dan Chun says he’s seeing a wide range of reactions from introverts who coped well in the beginning to folks losing hope. His message: “Never give up. And I would just put a footnote to that, reach out to at least one person to communicate how you’re doing.”
is a retired higher education professional and a community volunteer. She lives in Rancho Peñasquitos.
During the run-up to the San Diego mayor’s race in 2016, I responded to a phone survey and was asked for my opinion on the most pressing problem facing our city at the time. I replied “the condition of our streets.” Looking back on that answer, I now realize that I ranked potholes over people.
Homelessness has been a challenge facing our city and cities throughout California for a long time. Residents in some neighborhoods see “the homeless” every day and react in a variety of ways feeling momentary empathy, handing them some change or just looking right past them. Others live in neighborhoods where they don’t see “the homeless,” which makes it easier to become detached from the issue. Or they view solutions to the “homeless problem” with skepticism and ask how the city and county will spend tax dollars to solve it.
Hear from Community Experts in This Week’s Launch of “Life Interrupted: Navigating What’s Next”
Get tips and ask questions in this HONOLULU Magazine free mental health webinar from 1-2 p.m. Thursday, May 6
May 4, 2021
The pandemic changed our community and our world dramatically in 2020. Now, our lives are shifting again as we figure out our best next steps. This opening session tackles the big picture: Thursday, May 6: “Changes for Home, Work, Community.”
We saw our world shift in so many ways: work from home, school at home; losing jobs or letting them take over our lives; missing many milestones while connecting in different and sometime more meaningful ways; seeing so much of some family members while missing others. Experts say the world and our part of it will continue to adapt in the coming months. How do we move forward safely and cautiously as we strive to recover some of what we lost and find a better path forward.
Bipolar Author Shares Insights for Mental Health Awareness Month From:
Author Jason W. Park, PhD (memoir Bliss + Blues = Bipolar) has been in recovery from Bipolar Disorder for five years. He says, There is no cure for Bipolar, but recovery is possible For Mental Health Awareness Month (May), he shares a 5-pillar strategy for maintaining or gaining Bipolar recovery that he wishes his younger self had known. Park s book is a cautionary tale recounting the 20 years of ups and downs between his own diagnosis and recovery.
Los Angeles, CA | May 1, 2021 â According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), one in five Americans experience mental illness historically, and in COVID times even more have been confronted with depression and anxie