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A survey by the American Dental Association found an increase in stress-related dental damage since the beginning of the pandemic.

The number of people having suicidal thoughts has tripled under lockdown, as Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage warned that lockdowns meant to stop the spread of coronavirus were proving to be detrimental to other aspects of Britons’ health.

London Ambulance Service callouts to suicides or suicide attempts have almost doubled in a year, with the organisation saying it had seen a rise in the number of visits related to mental health issues since the start of the pandemic.

“If I listened totally to the scientists, we would right now have a country that would be in a massive depression,” Trump said.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk claims that the brain-computer interface being developed by his new startup Neuralink will be able to stream music directly into users’ brains.

Physicians said on a conference call with reporters on Tuesday that the real threat is not a virus but the lack of access to health care.

There is a clear and present danger that lockdown measures aimed at stemming the spread of the novel coronavirus may fuel mental health issues like suicides, Dr. Francis Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), warned this week.

More than one million Swedes are now taking medication for depression, while a study has found people in Stockholm feel insecure due to surging crime.

NEW YORK (AP) — Sounds as though Zack Greinke got an earful at Yankee Stadium while warming up in the bullpen.

Jamie Margolin, a high school senior, said at a House hearing on Wednesday that it is hard to study when “the world is ending.”

The UK’s suicide rate has risen for the first time in five years, with men still three times more likely than women to take their own lives.

Miami Dolphins wide receiver Kenny Stills recently admitted the social media backlash he received for kneeling during the anthem the last three years, led to depression.

A study published on Monday revealed that social media usage — more so than any other type of digital screen time — is linked to teen depression. The research team investigated the connection between depression in adolescents and their exposure to various types of screen time over a four-year time period. According to the researchers, video games makes teens “more happy.”

A 17-year-old Dutch girl was euthanized at her home on Sunday after saying that the trauma of being raped as a child made her feel she couldn’t keep living.

Chief Executive for NHS England Simon Stevens has told MPs that the government cannot “medicalise” the failure to bring up children properly.

A number of professors are unsure about the fairness of some of the special accommodations, such as extra time to take an exam, provided for students classified as “disabled.”

Health insurance company Cigna conducted a nationwide survey and nearly half reported constant feelings of loneliness or isolation.

The infamous “club drug” ketamine may provide the key to helping people living on the edge of self-destruction.

Police say that the wife of a Florida Democratic congressman has been arrested and charged with alleged “disorderly intoxication.”

Men account for three-quarters of the suicides in the UK, new statistics have confirmed.

According to a report from the Economist published last week, anxiety and depression rates in teenagers have skyrocketed over the past two decades.

Nearly a quarter of Mexican illegal aliens surveyed in a new study have a mental disorder.

A professor and the director of InHealth Associates have claimed that Google’s depression diagnosis tool “is driving people quicker down the path to big pharma.”

Google has introduced the ability for users to screen themselves for depression by adding the option to take a questionnaire when they search for information on the condition.

Actor-turned-director James Franco says he took the election of Donald Trump “really badly,” and has been suffering psychologically as of late.

An app aims to analyse the writing patterns of teenagers in order to predict possible depression and suicide risks.

Dr. Pete Sulack, stress expert and founder of StressRX.com, told Breitbart News on Friday that the media bears some of the blame for the deep distress felt by some Hillary Clinton supporters, and the public unrest, after Tuesday’s election results.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sent a message of condolences to Germany on Saturday, a day after a German-Iranian teenager went on a shooting spree in the city of Munich, killing nine people.

A new study shows there’s much more depression, obesity and suicidal tendencies among adults raised by same-sex couples than among adults raised by a normal family of complementary male and female parents.

A new study finds that the more time young adults spend using social media, the more likely they are to be depressed.

Only a period of enforced “planned austerity” can save the world from dangerous global warming, a warmist academic has claimed at a TED lecture. Alice Bows-Larkin, a climate researcher from the Tyndall Centre at the University of Manchester, said in her

The Russian economy started stagnating in 2013, but the nation was never actually able to recover from the 2008-2009 recession, according to Stratfor Global Intelligence. The combination of the 2014 sanctions over the Ukraine and collapsing oil prices is a perfect economic storm that is grinding Russia to a halt.

It was a very deep depression, as deep as the one that succeeded in 1929. But in this case, the government did not intervene, and it was over in less than two years. Was this a coincidence? Grant does not think it was. He believes, as this writer does, that present government interventions have deepened our current economic malaise and are retarding a full recovery.

The Germanwings story is mutating with incredible speed. At first we were assured by the company that young co-pilot Andreas Lubitz, who evidently crashed the plane on purpose and killed 150 people, was “100% fit to fly,” with no physical or mental problems whatsoever. Then we were told Lubitz took an extended break from pilot training for counseling to deal with “burnout” and emotional stress, but that was back in 2008, so it wasn’t necessarily relevant to his behavior this week.

A Washington State mother of three has been charged with attempted murder after she allegedly tried to silence her three children—a two-year-old and two six-month-old twin babies—by slashing their throats with a kitchen knife.