by Agnes D | Sep 23, 2022 | Wellbeing
Imagine that you are in a plane, thinking the flight is going smoothly but in reality both pilots in the cockpit have fallen asleep. Does it sound like a Hollywood scenario? Sadly enough it happens in real life with the most recent example being when an Ethiopian Air...
by Agnes D | May 2, 2022 | Wellbeing
In the last 12 months, the issue of the mental health of athletes has burst into the public eye via numerous high profile media stories. In professional, amateur, and college sports, the number of suicides and athletes suffering from a Mental Health issue is...
by Gregory M | Oct 9, 2021 | Wellbeing
It’s very easy to develop beliefs based on shaky assumptions or half-baked facts. I can readily admit that my beliefs were wrong when it came to UAS (Unmanned Aircraft Systems) pilots, the challenges they face, and how their mental health can have a wide range of...
by Cole Huntley | Aug 11, 2021 | Wellbeing
In a 2008 editorial in The American Journal of Psychiatry, Thomas R. Insel M.D. estimated that, “serious mental illness is associated with an annual loss of earnings totaling $193.2 billion” within the US economy. His analysis is not an anomaly. A diverse range of...
by Jordan Narins | Aug 4, 2021 | Wellbeing
We say that we live in a better world than we did yesterday, but is that true? A few weeks ago, one of the most prominent tennis players in the world was fined and threatened with disqualification when she refused to participate in post-match press conferences. Naomi...
by Charis Yoon | Jun 14, 2021 | Wellbeing
The CAGE questionnaire, developed in 1968, is a brief assessment containing four questions that is used by doctors to check for signs of potential alcohol dependency (alcohol abuse or alcoholism). The acronym, CAGE, makes the questions easy to remember: Have you ever...
