Jacqueline Alnes shares 10 pieces that examine sports and mental health.
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Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Essays & Criticism, Featured, Nonfiction, Story
Chimayó
Esmé Weijun Wang discovers a new interpretation of faith while on two kindred pilgrimages: one to find an accurate medical diagnosis, one to a sacred site in New Mexico.
Posted inHighlight, Quotes, Science & Nature
You’re Fine, and So Is Your Baby
If new parents say they don’t have intrusive thoughts about harm befalling their babies, “they’re lying.”
Posted inCurrent Events, Highlight, Quotes
Shoot First, Ask Questions Later (Or Don’t)
Officer Stephen Mader got fired for deciding not to shoot someone, and if that doesn’t say a lot about the problems with police culture in the U.S., I don’t know what to tell you.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes, Science & Nature, Unapologetic Women
Waiting for Mental Health Care
Patients do ask for help with their mental health. And then they wait.
Posted inCrime, Quotes
Just Another Bugout Behind Bars
How and when did prisons become one of the New York’s major providers of mental health care — and can we actually call it “care”?
Posted inEditor's Pick
Of Breakdowns and Breakthroughs
In this personal essay, after suicides and heartbreak ravage her family, Jenny Aurthur finds she has no choice but be transformed.
Posted inNonfiction, Story
Born Again
“Rebirth therapy” was meant to help a troubled girl start over, but it ended her life instead.
Posted inStory, Unapologetic Women
The Encyclopedia of the Missing
She keeps watch over one of the largest databases of missing persons in the country. For Meaghan Good, the disappeared are still out here, you just have to know where to look.
Posted inEditor's Pick
‘I Want It to Stop’
Fifteen-year-old Ruben Urbina suffered from depression and attempted suicide multiple times. His friends and family members pleaded with him to get help. But one morning, Ruben couldn’t handle it anymore and called the police to falsely report that he had a bomb strapped to his chest.