We’re examining mental health from a different angle on “ Take Care ” this week. When we think about mental health, we often think about anxiety, stress, depression and the like. And we’ve covered many of those topics on this show. This time, we wanted to instead look at different situations and specific populations that deal with challenges in mental health. They’re not all that uncommon, but they may not always be part of the dialogue around mental health. First, cancer and mental health. What kind of specific challenges are present before, during and after treatment? We ask this question and others of Dr. Claudia Trudel-Fitzgerald , a research scientist at the T.H. Chan School of Public Health at Harvard University. Social media is still a fairly new communication method and one that seems to grow with every passing moment. Jacqueline Nesi , a research fellow in psychiatry and human behavior at Brown University, joins us to describe how social media affects our mental health -- for
We’re examining mental health from a different angle on “ Take Care ” this week. When we think about mental health, we often think about anxiety, stress, depression and the like. And we’ve covered many of those topics on this show. This time, we wanted to instead look at different situations and specific populations that deal with challenges in mental health. They’re not all that uncommon, but they may not always be part of the dialogue around mental health. First, cancer and mental health. What