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“Schools are among the most common settings in which youth receive mental health services and can make services easier to access and less stigmatizing.” says Gwendolyn Lawson, who is a researcher in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), in an email to Changing America. InContinue reading “Writing from Life – Mental Health in Elementary School”

Loneliness is the state of distress or discomfort that results when one perceives a gap between one’s desires for social connection and actual experiences of it. Loneliness exists in many complex forms of life, with very unique circumstances. Inspired by the S-Town podcast, people can feel isolated for many different reasons; John B McLemore feltContinue reading “Loneliness – Writing from Research”

In Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” the line “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark” (Act 1, Scene 4) resonates as a powerful indictment of the moral and political decay festering at the heart of the Danish court. Uttered by Marcellus, a guard, after witnessing the apparition of the late King Hamlet, this observation encapsulates the pervasiveContinue reading “Writing in Fiction: Moral Deterioration in Hamlet”

In Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” the line “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark” (Act 1, Scene 4) resonates as a powerful indictment of the moral and political decay festering at the heart of the Danish court. Uttered by Marcellus, a guard, after witnessing the apparition of the late King Hamlet, this observation encapsulates the pervasiveContinue reading “Writing in Fiction: Moral Deterioration in Hamlet”