Mental health

Air Force Staff Sgt. Heather O'Brien holds her labradoodle service dog, Albus, on Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024, in Kansas City, Kan. O'Brien is a part of Dogs 4 Valor that helps retired veterans and first responders in the Kansas City area work with their service dogs to help manage depression, anxiety and other challenges. (AP Photo/Nick Ingram)
Air Force Staff Sgt. Heather O'Brien holds her labradoodle service dog, Albus, on Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024, in Kansas City, Kan. O'Brien is a part of Dogs 4 Valor that helps retired veterans and first responders in the Kansas City area work with their service dogs to help manage depression, anxiety and other challenges. (AP Photo/Nick Ingram)

Mental health

‘I got my life back.’ Veterans with PTSD making progress thanks to service dog program

NOV. 11, 2024

Nelly Shukuru, 51, hold the scarf she had planned on using to hang herself after spending three years displaced in the Lushagala camp in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)
Nelly Shukuru, 51, hold the scarf she had planned on using to hang herself after spending three years displaced in the Lushagala camp in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

Health

Years of war in Congo have created a dire mental health crisis. But little support is available

OCT. 16, 2024

Sierra Leone Mental Health
View of Freetown, Sierra Leone, April 28, 2024. The hospital was once known among locals as the "Crase Yard," or yard for crazy people. Now it's known as the Sierra Leone Psychiatric Teaching Hospital. It has helped give the facility, the oldest of its kind in sub-Saharan Africa, a new reputation. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)

Healthcare

Sierra Leone not long ago still chained mental health patients. A transformation is underway

AUG. 6, 2024

Olympics Black Women Comebacks
FILE - Simone Biles competes on the uneven bars at the United States Gymnastics Olympic Trials on Sunday, June 30, 2024, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr, File)

Athletes

Biles, Richardson, Osaka comebacks ‘bigger than them.’ They highlight issues facing Black women

JULY 24, 2024

Devout Athletes
Beatie Deutsch, an Orthodox Jewish runner, trains in Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, June 26, 2024. "I'd love governing bodies of sports to do more to accommodate religion," said the 34-year-old mother of five. She qualified to represent Israel in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics but didn't compete because the women's marathon was scheduled for a Saturday, when she observes shabbat. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Mental health

Devout athletes find strength in their faith. But practicing it and elite sports can pose hurdles

JULY 2, 2024

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Mental health

AP exposes harm caused by lack of mental health protocols for transgender teens in crisis

JAN. 6, 2024

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Coronavirus

With extraordinary access to a psychiatric unit, AP reveals pandemic’s toll on children’s mental health

MARCH 19, 2021

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Coronavirus

Frontline health care workers face the emotional toll taken by the virus

JUNE 26, 2020

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Anniversaries

A powerful retrospective and breaking news, 20 years after Columbine mass shooting

APRIL 26, 2019

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