Mental Health

People are reporting having more vivid and bizarre dreams during the pandemic. We'll discuss what they mean and the science of dreaming.

Morning Edition host Jennifer Lynn speaks with WHYY’s community contributors and engagement editor Chris Norris about the Walter Wallace Jr. footage.

Here are some examples from a variety of different perspectives of how to take care of yourself and not get too stressed out during a stressful and sometimes tragic time.

As different as this year is, the cold is still coming.

Sarcasm, trading insults, in-jokes continue a tradition that began when the first enslaved Africans arrived here back in 1619.

Some people laugh when they want to cry, or cry when they want to laugh. Turns out, there’s a type of emotion regulation at work.

When my spouse spent 48 weeks on chemo, I got markers and paper lunch bags, and tried the gallows humor thing.

Attorney Shaka Johnson described as-yet-unseen footage that shows the minutes before two unnamed officers fatally shot Walter Wallace Jr.

The department has a clear “disconnect” in terms of mental health resources, Commissioner Outlaw said.

We discuss mental health and policing around the shooting of Walter Wallace Jr. in Philadelphia. Then, the dark money influencing the 2020 election.

Quality care is critical right now, therapists said, as Black men absorb both the effects of the pandemic and the impact of racism and police brutality.

If watching feels necessary or inevitable, there are methods to cope.

West Philadelphians described their own efforts to de-escalate conflicts and heal their community as they mourned the police shooting of Walter Wallace Jr.

Instead of de-escalating a situation in which an ambulance was sought, officers who arrived escalated it, said the attorney representing Wallace’s family.

Doom-scrolling much? Nearly 70% of Americans report feeling stressed about politics. We're sleepless and irritable, and our heads hurt. Here's how some people are coping.