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Babies and toddlers get depressed and anxious too. How to check in on their mental health.
Mental disorders in children change the way they learn, behave or cope with feelings, and can make it difficult for them to get through their day.
Alia E. Dastagir, USA TODAY
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3:53 pm UTC Jun. 3, 2021
When many people think of babies, they think of joy. We visualize the youngest years as a whimsical time marked by lightheartedness and wonder. But experts in infant and early childhood mental health say from birth to 3 years old children are capable of a range of deep and intense emotions, including sadness, grief and anger, and just like their caregivers, are susceptible to mental health challenges.
Some celebrities across the entertainment spectrum choose to fully humanize themselves in an effort to advocate for causes larger than any one of us. Here are 20 celebrities who put in work outside of their public-facing careers to advocate for mental health.
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By Lizzy Feliciano May 26, 2021Reprints
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On February 25, I got the phone call I had been dreading for years: My brother Louis was dead.
I was dumbfounded. We had just spoken 48 hours earlier.
My sister and I had finally found a rehabilitation program that would treat all three of his afflictions manic depression, anxiety, and alcoholism and not just one of them, as had happened so often in the past. For the first time in a long time, we had hope that Louis would finally get the help he needed and deserved.
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His last text to us read: “Tell everyone I’m going to do this.” By “this” he meant live again. Work again. Establish healthy relationships again. Many of us take these things for granted but for someone like Louis, they are fleeting treasures.