Kieley Parker never imagined she would need an antidepressant. “I always win those stupid sunshine and happiest person awards. People see me as an incredibly joyful person,” she says. But in fall 2014, Parker left her job as a third-grade teacher and moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma, with her fiancé. Starting over in a new city […]
On a hot summer day in August, Sydney, 15, and Laney, 8, are enjoying their last two weeks of freedom before school starts. The sisters try to do flips over a high bar at a local playground. “You’ve got to pull your hips into the bar, like you’ve got to kick up like that,” explains […]
Acknowledging that “there is more work to be done” to ensure that patients with mental health issues and addiction do not face discrimination in their health care, a presidential task force made a series of recommendations 28 October, including $9.3 million in funding to improve enforcement of the federal parity law. The long-awaited report is the product […]
