To stay healthy as you reintegrate into the world, Dr. Brenda Rea recommends six things you should make sure are integrated into your life.

Focus groups of community health workers bring out fears, resilience.

By Kelsey Borresen

The birth of a child is billed as a time of immense joy, love and excitement. But for many moms, the months — and sometimes years — that follow can also be a period of mental and emotional struggle.

More than a quarter of U.S. adults who participated in an online survey given in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic were experiencing symptoms of current depression, a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows, with the prevalence of mental distress highest among Hispanics.

James was first diagnosed with depression in 2017. Life was a struggle for much of his mid-20s, and hiding in bed provided the only source of comfort. It took three years of medication, therapy and strenuous lifestyle changes, but James began to recover as 2019 came to a close. "For the first time in a long time," he said, "I began to feel hopeful about the future." Then COVID-19 hit.