COVID-19

Dr Aiken gives tips to feel more connected to your patient and become more aware of their lives.

While helping each other, we oftentimes forget to preserve our own health. Dr Gold recommends tips for maintaining your own peace of mind.

At the heart of reopening is protecting both population health and economic health.

Pharmacists are here for you, through the thick and thin of this pandemic, and can provide assistance to those who have lost their jobs or need help acquiring medications.

If we acknowledge our feelings of grief and loss over the pandemic, we can begin to come together, encourage hope, find meaning, and stay connected. Dr Morganstein talks on this.

The pandemic has brought into focus treatment barriers, disruption in care, and possibly negative outcomes in the mental health of university students. To better understand the specific challenges of out-of-state students, the authors conducted an anonymous national survey of college psychiatrists.

Dr Aftab reflects on his own worries about COVID-19 and offers tips to help guide what sort of future we are looking to create for ourselves during, and post, pandemic.

Politics have gotten in the way of mask-wearing, and they should not.

There are things within our control: catching coronavirus may not be one of them.

Mental health providers who battle a pandemic may find that it unsettles their deepest sense of self.

Frontline workers are being hailed as heroes, and while their bravery should be commended, we need to acknowledge them for what they are before their profession: people.

Addiction is a disease of social nature. The interruption of normalcy, even for those in a period of sobriety, can be especially hard on patients with addiction.

Wordsworth showed us stress and anxiety can be combatted with simple joys, like flowers. Dr Packer elaborates further.

Dr Lavretsky invites us to use the pandemic as a chance to build good habits, explore spiritual avenues, and start new routines.

The pandemic hit everyone hard, but what implications and consequences has it had for the older generations?

This video examines the differences between typical, non-pathological reactions to the stress induced by the COVID-19 pandemic and psychopathology (or mental illness).

Dr Tirado offers words of wisdom and encouragement on the pandemic.

Patients rely on the companionship and kindness of nurses now more than ever, and these poem selections reflect that.

The role of police has expanded from law and order to first responder, mental health intervention, and other duties others may be better qualified to fulfill.

Maya Angelou’s words remind us to care for and support one another.

Dr Berlin recites sentiments close to his heart.

Is a doctor a healer, a confidante, a priest or rabbi, a turner of textbook pages, or a combination of all?

The COVID-19 pandemic reveals existing weaknesses in the mental health system, but also presents opportunities for reform.

We need to celebrate the strengths that only aging can confer.