The Contagious Despair of Heroin Hubs
“They want to send everyone to rehab but rehab is only good for people who want to go”.
Jay, Tent City Resident, Philadelphia-June, 2018
The Silence
I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company.
-Henry Miller
Is It Time To Revise The COVID Mental Health Narrative?
There’s no arguing with numbers but that doesn’t mean that the recently released BMJ study suggesting the pandemic’s impact on mental health was negligible isn’t perplexing. The study’s authors, listed here, compared symptoms reported before and during the pandemic, finding “most symptom change estimates for general mental health, anxiety symptoms, and depression symptoms were close …
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