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A Bay Area project aims to provide front-line workers struggling with the trauma of the COVID-19 crisis with free counseling from more than 450 licensed psychotherapists.
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Stigma hasn’t gone away. It’s just more insidious. There is a limit to what is “acceptable” when it comes to having a mental illness.
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Nicole Kidman delivers a powerful performance as the unsympathetic protagonist, Erin Bell, in her latest movie, “Destroyer.”
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Allie Light is no stranger to the world of filmmaking, having spent more than 25 years in the proverbial director’s chair over a filmography of 12 projects. But when she began production on her most recent project, she faced a cinematic challenge entirely different than any she had ever encountered behind the camera.
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In DC Comics’ latest comic book limited series, “Heroes in Crisis,” the trauma of fighting crime casts a long shadow: At a clandestine hospital, superheroes get treated for post-traumatic stress disorder. But when its patients are murdered, it’s up to Wonder Woman, Superman and Batman to find the killer.
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UC Berkeley transfer student Begonia Herbert was only five years old when her mother left because of her father’s physical abuse, setting a haunting precedent of familial strife.
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As long as I am high, my thoughts are constrained from racing and my mood is elevated.
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Attitudes toward psychedelic drugs are changing, according to Don Lattin — author, UC Berkeley graduate and one-time psychedelics enthusiast.
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Dozens of students filled a Berkeley Forum event at Wurster Hall on Thursday night to hear Podium app creator Alix Generous speak about her experience with Asperger’s syndrome and the importance of mental health.
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Post-traumatic stress disorder is a serious mental affliction that can forever affect the way a person feels, thinks and reacts to the world around them. It has become a defining character flaw among many wayward protagonists in cinema, perhaps epitomized by the dark and brooding Travis Bickle in “Taxi Driver.”
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