May 25, 2021
More than one in five people in the United States struggles with a mental health problem. So with more than 7 million workers in trucking writ large, you’ve got a potential 1.4 million of our peers dealing with the stress and uncertainties of living with a mental illness. You can be certain, too, that every day each of us encounters countless vehicles piloted by someone battling a mental illness.
And a few other statistics: Suicide is the second leading cause of death for those between the ages of 10 and 34. It’s estimated anxiety and depression places an annual $1 trillion strain on the world s economy through lost productivity, with depression being a primary cause of disability.
Firefighter paramedics: They re often the first ones seen in an emergency, constantly responding to traumatic and life-or-death situations.Aside from daily, on-the-job challenges, first responders often cope with the toll that responding to disasters and emergencies can take on their mental health.Turns out, the ones first to assist when we need help, sometimes need help themselves. It s something that we re seeing both at the national and state level. About 20% of firefighters have PTSD. Some of those are suffering silently, explained Brett Geyer, a fire captain with Yuba City Fire Department. These new statistics about what s really happening in our field. it s impossible to just pretend like it s not there. Geyer also pointed to a 2017 Ruderman Foundation study that discovered firefighters are more likely to die by suicide than in line of duty.The fire captain heads up a newly formed mental health task force for the Yuba City Fire Department. The model for the program is pe
Ways parents can support kids mental health
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Ways parents can support kids mental health
More than a year into the pandemic we know that it has had a drastic impact on mental health, especially in kids.
More than a year into the pandemic we know that it has had a drastic impact on mental health, especially in kids.
Child development expert Jessica Lahner with Carroll University s Behavioral Health Psychology program FOX6 WakeUp with some ways parents can support kids mental health.
6 tips to support kids’ mental health one year into the COVID-19 pandemic
(Knoxville, TN) - New data from the Knox County Regional Forensic Center showed there was a 13 percent increase last year. There were 94 suicides in 2.
Two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech or AstraZeneca-University of Oxford vaccine provide protection against the Covid variant first found in India, a study found.