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    Achieve Mental Health Equity Update: Winter 2025

    • Diversity News and Updates

    In this issue, we feature APA’s mental health equity champion, Jonathan Shepherd, M.D. Dr. Shepherd explains that to be a champion you must “be bold about what you stand for. You must be bold, and you must be courageous. That alone will make you a mental health equity champion.”

    Sleeping Like a Pro

    • Patients and Families, Sleep Disorders

    Athletes are particularly adept at combining mind and body to maximize performance in sport. However, the same does not always apply to performance in sleep. Most researchers and doctors recommend 7 to 9 hours of sleep per night at a minimum, and less than that is considered insufficient sleep. While the overall rate of insufficient sleep in the general population is high, athletes are even more likely to suffer from lack of shut eye. Whether it’s due to traveling, practice schedules, or balanci

    What to Do About Workplace Bullying

    • Patients and Families

    Bullying is often thought of as a kids’ problem. But it also often happens to adults in the workplace. Workplace bullying involves multiple, repeated, intentional acts of aggression, hostility, social isolation, disrespect or mistreatment of an employee by another employee(s). It can include work sabotage or behaviors perceived as threatening, intimidating, or humiliating. These acts often happen in person but also can occur through email, text messaging, and social media.

    Move Your Mind: How Daily Physical Activity Boosts Brain Health and Mental Well-Being

    • Healthy living for mental well-being, Patients and Families

    Most people understand exercise, and more broadly physical activity, to be beneficial to health from a physical perspective. In other words, it’s good for your heart, muscles, and potentially your waistline. What is often less appreciated is the importance of exercise to several aspects of brain health. Physical activity has been shown to be helpful in a variety of neurologic and psychiatric conditions, including reduced risk of dementia, reduced feelings of anxiety and depression (in individual

    American Psychiatric Association Honors Sen. Chris Murphy with Jacob K. Javits Award for Public Service

    The American Psychiatric Association (APA) presented Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) with the Jacob K. Javits Award for Public Service during its Federal Advocacy Conference today. Sen. Murphy is recognized for his leadership and dedication in advancing mental health policy in Congress that has led to the passing of critical bipartisan legislation to help improve the lives of millions of Americans with mental illness and substance use disorders (SUD).

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