recovery

Research shows that the widespread disruption in our lives has led to an uptick in reports of anxiety and depression in both children and adults. At the same time, the pandemic has made it harder for our most vulnerable communities to access the care they need. What can we do to build a better future for our mental health?

Ebony Horsewomen is a unique urban riding center that offers the community various resources including riding programs, equine therapy and equine-assisted psychotherapy, youth programs, and more. In this episode we discuss the mental health of urban, particularly BIPOC communities and how horses can help heal, no matter who you are.

Karen Healy spent decades of her life living in state hospitals. In this episode, she shares her story and offers insight on how she believes we can improve treatment options.

In August 2021, Chevoughn Augustin was committed to 38 years at Whiting Forensic, the state’s maximum-security pyschiatric hospital, for attacking Hartford Police Officer Jill Kidik, who was responding to a vandalism complaint. Kidik believes a mobile crisis response team could have prevented the situation from escalating the way it did.

Musical Intervention is a community music program, studio and alcohol and drug-free safe space designed to help people better their lives. They offer an open-door policy to anyone looking to create original music, and hope to create a “bridge of connectivity to human health care.” In this episode we speak to members of the program and researchers about how...

Mae Martin says the second season of “Feel Good” is loosely based on a period in their life about 10 years ago, exaggerated in the show for comedic effect. Lisa Kudrow plays Martin’s uncomfortably worried mom.

Hotels say they are seeing small signs of a turnaround as some business travelers return.

As temperatures slowly rise, Texans are surveying historic damage left by a week of frigid temperatures and power outages.

A cafe in Charlotte, North Carolina, is giving people recovering from addiction a fresh start. The Community Matters Cafe partners with the Charlotte Rescue Mission to offer jobs and life skills to people leaving its treatment program. The café’s chief operating officer, Ed Price, joined LX News to discuss how the business is putting purpose over profit.

Family Wellness Manager Laura Perry explains the importance of family when someone is in recovery.

Have we really gone through a recession?

We are seeing sky-high unemployment numbers, yet at the same time, Wall Street has risen sharply since the coronavirus shutdown. Have we really gone through a recession? A recession, by the strictest definition of the word, is two straight quarters of negative national economic output, measured by something called GDP, or gross domestic product.  By that measure, people who...

Unemployment in our state appears to have topped out around 19% in mid-May, a figure released by the Connecticut Department of Labor this week.  Call it the “pandemic peak,” something Connecticut DOL research director Andy Condon discussed with NBC Connecticut.   “It looks like the process of job recovery is beginning.  It looks like we have seen the worst of...

An 82-year-old Milford woman beat COVID-19 and is finally heading home to her family.

For some, hospice is a last stop before the end of life. But for a Milford woman who beat the coronavirus, it proved to be the last stop before she got to go home. “People hear hospice and they think it’s a one way street into this place and I think we’ve proven it time and time again that’s...

As President Donald Trump promises a quick comeback from the coronavirus pandemic and the country tentatively starts to reopen, many are hoping for what some are calling a V-shaped recovery. That’s where the economic uptick happens as quickly as the downturn. But Financial and economic analyst Jim Lowell doesn’t think that outcome is very likely. He subscribes to another prediction:...

Hartford Healthcare shared an amazing story of survival from one of their earliest COVID-19 patients

Mimi and Papa, as they asked to be called, celebrated their 50th anniversary in New Zealand last year. Now, the couple, college sweethearts, is separated by glass. “I have not seen him since he left me on the seventh of April,” said Mimi who resides in Weston with her husband. She said doctors told her Papa suffered a stroke after…

The virus that has sickened over 4 million people around the world and killed more than 250,000 others is so new that patients face considerable uncertainty about what they can expect in recovery and beyond