The Long News: stories that might still matter fifty, or a hundred, or ten thousand years from now.
Roy McDonald writes: “For the long news I’d suggest almost anything on mental health. My thesis is that we are in the stone age in understanding mental illness, minor and major and that it’s something we’re capable of making great progress on in the next century. If we improve mental health globally seems like we could reduce a lot of violence, social tension and international conflict as well as improve economic productivity.”
Here are some recent stories on the topic:
1. First, the bad news: Common mental disorders may be more common than we think
2. The scale of the problem:
More Americans taking drugs for mental illness
U.S. spends $9 billion on child mental illness
100 million in China suffer from mental illness
3. You can’t get away from your problems, no matter how far you go: Feeling low up high: the lonely astronaut
4. An interesting blog post: Are artificial intelligence and robots the future of mental health?
5. Some hope: UCLA researchers develop biomarker for rapid relief of major depression
6. And a prescription: Groups are key to good health
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