Lizzie Velasquez battles a rare congenital disease that impedes her from accumulating body fat. The condition led to countless doctors’ visits and cyber-bullying to the extreme where one stranger called her “the world’s ugliest woman” on YouTube.

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has expanded its guidelines for depression screening, saying it is universally helpful to all U.S. adults over the age of 18, including pregnant and postpartum women. The panel says the benefits of treatment, even medication that may affect fetuses, far outweigh any potential risks.

Providing education and promoting awareness about mental health in our communities revolves around eliminating the stigma and shame of living with mental illness.

Among Hispanics with a mental disorder, fewer than 1 in 11 contact a mental health specialist. Many latinos don't access mental health services for simple reasons like working long hours, not having transportation or having to go to an unfamiliar part of town.

So we all know about laziness, right? Well, in Buddhism there is something called ‘active laziness’ and, in the west, we are experts at it. It sounds almost contradictory as, in the case of active laziness, you don’t usually sit around slothfully but, rather exert huge amounts of energy in distraction, endlessly avoiding the most important things – being still and healing ourselves.