Following graduation from Mount Holyoke College, Ohemaa Poku started as the Program Coordinator at our Columbia-WHO Center for Global Mental Health in 2014. Over the […]
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Mental Health and Work
When Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon and marched his troops south to establish the new Roman Empire, there was no going back. I dare say […]
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Billboard Mental Health
Roadtrip! I am writing from the backseat of a newfangled rental car because, as you may remember from an earlier post, our family car (who […]
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Five Years of Five on Friday
I can hardly believe that I have been writing these weekly musings for five years. Our readership (you!) now numbers in the tens of thousands. […]
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ForLikeMinds
“Stigma, Meet Hope.” This is how Katherine Ponte begins her story. Katherine knows a thing or two about stigma. She has lived with bipolar I […]
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Healthy Planet, Healthy People
Planet Earth. Home sweet home for almost eight billion people. This past Thursday we celebrated with our annual Earth Day, and our week was filled […]
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It’s Scary Out There
I was talking with a friend the other day about meeting for coffee. We are both vaccinated. It didn’t seem reckless, but as we anxiously […]
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The Confess Project
Hair. It’s a major strand in the braid of our pandemic stories. Women have gone gray. Men have gone from crew cut to ponytail. People […]
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