Health & Wellness Section :: Page 22

• Survivors of suicide find solace

  By Morgan BeardAugust 2, 2018

  

  It is estimated that 85 percent of Americans know someone personally who has died of suicide, according to a 2012 study titled Suicide Bereavement and Complicated Grief. 

• Reaching out to save a life

  By Megan BachmanJuly 5, 2018

  

  In the depths of depression, a young Abraham Lincoln wrote a letter to his law partner in 1841 that hinted at possible suicidal intentions.

• Local resources for suicide prevention

  By Megan BachmanJune 15, 2018

  

  Recent suicides in Yellow Springs and beyond have galvanized those working in and around the village to prevent suicide.

• Mental health first aid training offered

  By YS News StaffMay 30, 2018

  

  The Antioch College Office of Student Life, in association with the Mental Health and Recovery Board of Greene County, will host a local mental health first-aid training on Friday, June 1, 8 a.m.–5:30 p.m.

• Free yoga offered this summer

  By YS News StaffMay 29, 2018

  

  The Wellness Center at Antioch College will host several opportunities to attend yoga classes at no charge throughout the summer.

• Campaign seeks end to mental illness stigma

  By YS News StaffMay 12, 2018

  

  May is Mental Health Awareness Month. The local chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, or NAMI, is observing the month by participating in a new national campaign called “CureStigma.” 

• Learning how to get your medical marijuana card

  By William DrewingMarch 30, 2018

  

  Free educational sessions aimed at preparing patients to apply for medical marijuana cards will be held by The Hope 4 U during the month of April.

• House of AUM ready to #PressforProgress

  By William DrewingMarch 2, 2018

  

  The House of AUM will be hosting an International Women’s Day event on March 8.

• A focus on women’s heart health

  By Diane ChiddisterFebruary 15, 2018

  

  In 2011 villager Lynda Terry felt unusually tired. In the middle of the night, she woke up feeling nauseous, with a strange pain radiating down her arm. Though the symptoms weren’t the ones most would expect, Terry believed she was having a heart attack.

• EPA studies vapor in Vernay site cleanup

  By Megan BachmanSeptember 7, 2017

  

  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is trying to determine whether vapors from an underground plume of toxic chemicals expose neighbors of a federal cleanup to dangerous levels of carcinogens, or if residents are safe from immediate and long-term harm.