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APA data shows extensive markers of unhealthy coping—including disrupted sleep, increased drinking and low physical activity. Moreover, some 61% of adults are reporting undesired weight gain or loss—though mostly the former, with a typical increase of 15 pounds. “All the research coming out now is really aligned,” Wright said. “Rates of depression, anxiety, substance use and suicidality have all increased.” To understand what this will mean for workplaces, it may help to under...

Employers brace for COVIDs mental health fallout as workers return Arianne Cohen, Bloomberg News VIDEO SIGN OUT From casual Fridays to after-work drinks, those weekly rituals once taken for granted are returning as Americans head back to the office. And while masks, plexiglass and empty conference rooms will alter the cubescape, employers are nevertheless invested in getting things back to normal—or at least as normal as possible. But that won’t be easy. COVID-19’s dama...

This is America: Were all (still) tired Mabinty Quarshie It’s been more than a year of living in a pandemic that’s upended everyone’s lives. Yes, vaccines are more widely available now in the USA. And more people are actually getting vaccinated if they want to. But people are still getting COVID-19 and dying. You know, not to be the downer or anything. I’m Mabinty, a politics editor at USA TODAY and your resident realist. Youre reading "This is America," a newsletter centered on race, ...

How am I doing? Its a question most of us have likely asked ourselves, especially during the pandemic, which has distressed us, upended us, disconnected us. Maybe you asked it when two bad days turned into four, or when you lost something, or someone, and the grief never abated. Maybe you asked it when melancholy edged toward hopelessness, when you grew tired of treading water, when you inhabited the same body but no longer felt like the same self.  People are often told to check in with other...

CVS To Offer In-Store Mental Health Counseling at 11:34 am NPR Barber shop owner Angela Miller always hears about clients family dysfunctions and financial struggles, but thats especially been the case during the pandemic. "You hear everything," she says. Lost jobs. Lost family. She says she can very much relate. "My business had to shut down for about four months, and I wasnt really financially prepared for that," says Miller, who says she normally pays bills ahead of time. H...

Update your browser or Flash plugin Barber shop owner Angela Miller always hears about clients family dysfunctions and financial struggles, but thats especially been the case during the pandemic. "You hear everything," she says. Lost jobs. Lost family. She says she can very much relate. "My business had to shut down for about four months, and I wasnt really financially prepared for that," says Miller, who says she normally pays bills ahead of time. Her entire family caught COVID-19 early in...

Image credit: David J. Phillip Barber shop owner Angela Miller always hears about clients’ family dysfunctions and financial struggles, but that’s especially been the case during the pandemic. “You hear everything,” she says. Lost jobs. Lost family. She says she can very much relate. “My business had to shut down for about four months and I wasn’t really financially prepared for that,” says Miller, who says she normally pays bills ahead of time. Her entire family caught COVID-1...

David J. Phillip/AP toggle caption David J. Phillip/AP CVS is adding mental health counseling to the services offered at about a dozen of its stores with HealthHUBs in Florida, Pennsylvania and Texas. David J. Phillip/AP Barber shop owner Angela Miller always hears about clients family dysfunctions and financial struggles, but thats especially been the case during the pandemic. "You hear everything," she says. Lost jobs. Lost family. She says she can very...

Originally published on April 29, 2021 2:13 pm Barber shop owner Angela Miller always hears about clients family dysfunctions and financial struggles, but thats especially been the case during the pandemic. "You hear everything," she says. Lost jobs. Lost family. She says she can very much relate. "My business had to shut down for about four months, and I wasnt really financially prepared for that," says Miller, who says she normally pays bills ahead of time. Her entire family caught COVID-19 ...

"You hear everything," she says. Lost jobs. Lost family. She says she can very much relate. "My business had to shut down for about four months, and I wasnt really financially prepared for that," says Miller, who says she normally pays bills ahead of time. Her entire family caught COVID-19 early in the pandemic, and Miller, a 50-year-old single mom living in Philadelphia, almost died. Being socially isolated also stirred up past childhood trauma, she says. So this year, she finally sought help....