Mind Reading: Former Comedy Central Exec Tara Schuster Uses Humor As Door Into Discussing Her Darkest Days
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Mind Reading: Former Comedy Central Exec Tara Schuster Uses Humor As Door Into Discussing Her Darkest Days

Tara Schuster may not have been a household name like the talent she worked with for nearly a decade as a development executive at Comedy Central on series including The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and Key & Peele.

But she definitively understands the magic of using humor—as well as hefty doses of vulnerability, reliability, and candid guidance—when it comes to sharing her own story of healing…

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Mind Reading: ‘Under 30’ Alum Madison Beer Details Her Experience With Online Hate, Suicidal Thoughts In New Book
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Mind Reading: ‘Under 30’ Alum Madison Beer Details Her Experience With Online Hate, Suicidal Thoughts In New Book

At age 13, Madison Beer was on her way to a burgeoning music career after Justin Bieber shared one of her videos on Twitter. Just a few years later, she was struggling with depression that began after nude photos of her were leaked on social media and spiraled amid an onslaught of online vitriol that culminated in her attempting to take her life when she was 19…

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‘Everything Everywhere’s Dan Kwan & Jonathan Wang On Meeting Moment Of “Mental Health Crisis” With “A Shotgun Blast Of Joy And Absurdity And Creativity” – Oscars Backstage
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‘Everything Everywhere’s Dan Kwan & Jonathan Wang On Meeting Moment Of “Mental Health Crisis” With “A Shotgun Blast Of Joy And Absurdity And Creativity” – Oscars Backstage

In an appearance backstage at the Oscars following seven wins for Everything Everywhere All at Once — the most in a year for any title since 2013’s Gravity — filmmaker Dan Kwan and producer Jonathan Wang spoke about their drive to use the explosively joyful feature to address some of the more dark and difficult aspects of life.

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Jewel Takes Her Mental Health Mission To The Metaverse
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Jewel Takes Her Mental Health Mission To The Metaverse

Jewel is taking her mission to scale mental health support to the metaverse. The multiplatinum-selling music artist, who for decades has been championing mental and emotional wellbeing through avenues including her Inspiring Children Foundation, is the co-founder of a new platform called Innerworld that makes resources accessible via a social virtual world managed by trained non-professionals and steeped in cognitive behavioral tools…

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Teen dramas’ track record on mental health is rough. So MTV adopted a new playbook
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Teen dramas’ track record on mental health is rough. So MTV adopted a new playbook

The best horror and science fiction mirrors the fears of its age… “Rosemary’s Baby,” from 1968, and “The Omen,” from 1976, represented Baby Boomers’ frustrations with the societal norms of their parents. Slasher films of the 1980s took on wealth, greed and the false sense of suburban security.

Blood and guts are great. But what do they all mean?

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How ‘Ginny & Georgia’ Dives Deeper Into Mental Health in Season 2: ’Everyone Is Fighting a Battle You Can’t See’
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How ‘Ginny & Georgia’ Dives Deeper Into Mental Health in Season 2: ’Everyone Is Fighting a Battle You Can’t See’

Netflix’s coming-of-age mother-daughter drama “Ginny & Georgia” dove in a bit deeper with Season 2. The series, which dropped on Jan. 5, picked up with Ginny (Antonia Gentry) and her little brother living with her dad, Zion (Nathan Mitchell) after leaving town at the end of Season 1 when she learns her mom (Brianne Howey) killed her stepdad…

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Mind Reading: Michael Phelps On The Watershed Article About His Mental Health That Inspired A New NFT Series
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Mind Reading: Michael Phelps On The Watershed Article About His Mental Health That Inspired A New NFT Series

It’s been seven years since Michael Phelps first publicly acknowledged the debilitating mental health issues he’d been struggling with throughout his legendary career as a swimmer. The news came out in in a November 2015 Sports Illustrated cover story: The most decorated Olympian of all time struggled with anxiety and depression, and had contemplated suicide…

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