by Monty Self | Jun 1, 2021 | Opinion
The chimera was a horrific hybrid creature from ancient Asia Minor composed of a lion’s body with a goat’s head and a snake’s tail. The fire-breathing creature was feared until the king of Lycia ordered Bellerophon to kill the monster. The chimera is not the only...
by Monty Self | May 25, 2021 | Opinion
The U.S. has only 11 mental health beds in general hospitals per 100,000 people, according to the most recent data available from the World Health Organization. This is not a shock, since this number has been falling since the 1950s. However, the same study revealed...
by Monty Self | May 21, 2021 | Opinion
Cases of anxiety and depression increased dramatically during the pandemic. Researchers with the U.S. Government Accountability Office released a report on April 30 that confirmed what previous studies had revealed: Cases of, and emergency department visits for,...
by Monty Self | May 17, 2021 | Opinion
COVID-19 has added fuel to the mental health crisis in the U.S., which has been in the making for decades. Since 2014, around one in five Americans has a mental illness, with one in 10 suffering from major depression and one in 25 from a serious mental illness....
by Monty Self | May 13, 2021 | Opinion
More than a third (37%) of the population is still leery of getting a COVID-19 vaccine, according to Kaiser Health News. Among the vaccine hesitant / resistant, 17% want to wait and see how the vaccines do, 13% insist they will definitely not be getting the shot, and...
