MFP/ANA e-Newsletter: February 16, 2024

Each week a quote is shared for your consideration. Some quotes might offer comfort, hope, a challenge, a chuckle, or inspiration. You may or may not agree with the quote, but it is offered simply to help you reflect and ponder.

Walking Workouts: 9 Myths and Facts to Know (opens new window) (opens new window)

10 Active Recovery Practices to Keep You Well While Working (opens new window)

Benefits of resistance exercise training in treatment of anxiety and depression (opens new window)

Guest Commentary | Breaking the silence: Navigating mental health in the Black community By TANIKA WILLIAMS - Psychiatric Mental Health and Adult Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner (opens new window)

Mental health is a prevalent issue impacting people of all races and cultural backgrounds. However, these challenges aren’t a new discovery – mental health has always been an underlying issue in our society, but many people are too afraid to have the conversation. Read more (opens new window)

Workers are desperate to talk about mental health at work but bosses just aren’t prepared to have those conversations (opens new window)

Its been clear for a while that the American workforce is not all right. Workers have struggled since the pandemic with increased job, financial, and health stressors that have been compounded by cultural and sociopolitical tensions. Americans at large are facing a mental health crisis, and employees are desperate to talk about it in the workplace. Read more (opens new window)

AI not ready for prime time in mental health care, experts say (opens new window)

Although several uses of artificial intelligence in mental health are showing some success, experts say the jury is still out on its capabilities for wider use. Therapists are using AI to examine large amounts of patient data, including family histories, patient behaviors and response to treatments to help diagnose and identify treatments, as well as select what therapists can best connect with individual patients, according to an article by Switzerland-based World Economic Forum. Read more (opens new window)

National tour highlighting Black mental health comes to Tampa (opens new window)

we are dedicated to reporting on mental health issues, debunking common misconceptions and connecting you with local resources. Last June, we highlighted a national tour event that serves as a safe place for Black men to get together and talk about mental health. Read more (opens new window)

Six-time All-Star DeMar DeRozan addresses mental health in new series 'Dinners with DeMar' (opens new window)

Chicago Bulls forward DeMar DeRozan has a message for everyone who is feeling alone or confused or scared. It doesn't matter if you're famous or not. Or wealthy. Or a parent or blue collar or any collar. DeRozan's message is for you. For all of us. Read more (opens new window)

Nearly half of health care workers have witnessed racism, discrimination, report shows (opens new window)

At a Pennsylvania hospital, a Black nurse said her emergency room colleagues routinely withheld pain medication from Black patients who sought relief from sickle cell disease. In Montana, a phlebotomist said fellow health care workers often made "ignorant comments" about the hospital's Native American patients. Read more (opens new window)