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Why Is Self-Care Especially Important for Foster Parents?

By KVC West Virginia Staff — 2020

For parents, children can take up every waking thought and every ounce of energy outside of work. This is especially true for foster parents.

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The Worst Part of Being a Mom with Anxiety and Depression

As a mom with anxiety and depression, my mind doesn’t stop.

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Carla M.
2018
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Parent Trap: Why the Cult of the Perfect Mother Has to End

Worldwide, mothers are overworked, underpaid, often lonely and made to feel guilty about everything from epidurals to bottle feeding. Fixing this is the unfinished work of feminism.

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Elaine Glaser
2021
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How to Cope with Empty Nest Syndrome When You’re a Single Parent

The transition from actively parenting children to a quieter life without children in the home can be difficult for any dedicated parent. For single parents, the transition may prove especially challenging.

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Zawn Villines
2019
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Stay-at-Home-Mom Depression Is Not Only Real, It’s Become a Crisis

We’ve finally started to talk about the mental health challenges that come along with raising children as a full-time job. But is it enough to help moms with the gargantuan challenges triggered by the pandemic?

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Chaunie Brusie
2021
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Stay-at-Home-Mom Depression Is Real—and You’re Not Alone

There’s a stigma around being a stay-at-home mom, and society doesn’t talk about the loneliness, isolation, and loss of identity that sometimes accompanies this choice. Here’s what you need to know about stay-at-home mom depression.

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Courtney Lund O’Neil
2020
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Is Grief Mental Illness? With Psychiatric Changes, Maybe

Normal bereavement and major depression share many of the same symptoms. And because of those similarities, psychiatrists have historically carved out what is known as a "bereavement exclusion." Its purpose was to reduce the likelihood that normal grief would be diagnosed as clinical depression.

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Tim Townsend
2013
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Male Depression and Anxiety in Athletes

Michael Phelps, the most decorated athlete in Olympic history with 28 medals, has acknowledged that after the 2012 games, his longtime depression was so overwhelming he thought about killing himself.

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Diane Herbst
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A New Prescription for Depression: Join a Team and Get Sweaty

Research shows exercise can ease things like panic attacks or mood and sleep disorders, and a recent study in the journal Lancet Psychiatry found that popular team sports may have a slight edge over the other forms of physical activity.

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Sasa Woodruff
2018
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How Olympians Are Fighting to Put Athletes’ Mental Health First

More athletes are reporting mental health issues such as anxiety, depression, psychiatric conditions and eating disorders.

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Alice Park
2021
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Experimental Treatments Changed the Course of the AIDS Epidemic; We Need the Same Approach to Mental Illness Today | Commentary

Demand from patients seeking help for their mental illnesses has led to underground use in a way that parallels black markets in the AIDS pandemic. This underground use has been most perilous for people of color, who face greater stigma and legal risks due to the War on Drugs.

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Monnica Williams, Morgan Campbell
2021
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