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How Discrimination in the Workplace Impacts Black Women’s Health & Well-Being

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The experience took a toll on her mental health. Watson, a licensed social worker who works for a federal agency, was diagnosed with clinical depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder. A trauma-like effect on Black women’s health For more than 15 years, Sierra Carter, Ph.D., It was a job that she liked. “I

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The Most Important Coworking Perk Of 2023: Brain Breaks

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But brain breaks can help to alleviate feelings of stress during the work day. They have the power to boost concentration , reduce stress , improve people’s perception of their work and even mitigate (to some extent) the negative physical effects of desk work. But it doesn’t come easy for the unpracticed.

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A New PTSD Treatment For Veterans Is Reducing Symptoms in 2 Weeks. Here’s Why It Works

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Veterans with mental health conditions like post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or depression suffer at higher rates than civilians. In 2023, the Office of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced veterans could receive both inpatient and outpatient acute suicidal crisis care without being enrolled at the VA, at no cost.

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Recent Study Reveals the Career Fields Most Likely to Cause Poor Pregnancy Outcomes

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But sometimes , stress—from their personal lives, or from the very jobs they rely on—can potentially harm their pregnancies causing poor outcomes and may even act as a risk factor for postpartum depression, all while they work hard to prepare for their babies. One of the study authors, Jung-won Yoon, M.D.,

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Should I Stay or Should I Go?

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If a silver lining can be found in the fallout of the pandemic, it’s that many of us (maybe finally) have started to prioritize our health and relationships over our jobs. million American workers handed in their notice in November 2021—the highest level recorded in one month since the data was first collected in 2000.

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The Power of Strong Friendships in Strengthening Well-Being

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Having strong friendships is important for everybody at all times but especially so for someone enduring a massively stressful situation like he is—frankly, like we all have in the past few years. A 2021 study by the “American Perspectives Survey” found that “15% of men have no close friendships at all, a fivefold increase since 1990.”

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SUCCESS’ 2024 Women of Influence

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When she was a junior in high school, Arrington founded the nonprofit ScholarCHIPS, an organization that provides college scholarships, mentoring, mental health support and a peer support network to children of incarcerated parents. Bathurst Walk-in Clinic and Family Practice Atwal is a trailblazer in the health care industry.

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