Psychotherapist Christine Turo-Shields, owner of Kenosis Counseling Center in Greenwood, Indiana, puts it bluntly: "If you are depressed or anxious and it's affecting your life, you have a mental health issue." Whether mild or chronic, such issues are no cause for shame,
It is critically important that the mounting evidence of the negative impact of marijuana use be highlighted, and particularly to our elected officials.
Sitting in front of a replica of Michelangelo's Pietà -- the sculpture of Mary holding her crucified son -- the bishops of the Atlanta province signed a joint statement June 27 urging "decisive action" on legislation to curb gun violence.
The bishops of
WESTERN UKRAINE (OSV News) — At a military hospital in western Ukraine, doctors are drawing on faith and the gifts of creation to heal the wounds of war. OSV News was granted access to the facility June 24 under strict conditions not
When pop punk band Simple Plan sing their platinum-selling hit tune "I'm Just a Kid," adult listeners might be forgiven for thinking the lyrical angst of "I'm just a kid / and life is a nightmare" is a bit of exaggerated artistic
With U.S. Catholics in the midst of a National Eucharistic Revival, the call to accompany those with mental illness is stronger than ever, a Catholic mental health counselor and researcher told OSV News.
"To live out eucharistic communion means not only the reception
The Diocese of Providence, Rhode Island, recently announced an initiative aimed at combatting the rising crisis of mental health struggles among young people in America. In announcing the effort, Bishop Thomas Tobin said: “Post-pandemic, there has been a rapid and intense increase
In 1985, at Cornell University’s Chekhov Festival, Walker Percy gave a pessimistic lecture entitled “Diagnosing the Modern Malaise” (later published in his collection of essays, “Signposts in a Strange Land”). Among the gloomier of Percy’s observations is that “most contemporary novelists have
During the six months following the national 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline launch in July, more than 2 million calls, texts and chat messages have streamed into its 200 call centers coast-to-coast, the Associated Press recently reported. As suicide continues to be
Publisher Scott Richert writes that he was in his late 40s when he realized he had aphantasia, which is the inability to create mental images. Until this revelation, he assumed that when people said “picture this,” it was more of a mental