Hannah Turns Recovery Into Purpose

“Just because you’ve hit bottom, doesn’t mean you have to stay there.” September is National Recovery Month, a time for raising awareness, reducing stigma and…

Helping Our Military Veterans Find Healing

The UF Health Jacksonville Leon L. Haley Jr., MD, Brain Wellness Program is an interdisciplinary treatment program for military veterans experiencing…

Considerations From Experts This Mental Health Awareness Month

May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and a trending topic among researchers has been the relationship between social media and mental health. Research has…

What To Know About Mental Health: Everyone’s Doing The Best They Can

Michael Shapiro, M.D., an assistant professor in the UF College of Medicine’s department of psychiatry and medical director of UF Health Child Psychiatry and…

Take the Pledge: Learn About Mental Illness

This year, Oct. 1–7 is Mental Illness Awareness Week, a time to shine a light on mental illness and replace stigma with hope. Each year we fight stigma,…

Mental Health Chat: Treating OCD

May is Mental Health Awareness Month. We are bringing awareness to the 2 million individuals in the United States affected with obsessive-compulsive disorder.…

5 Must-Read Mental Health Awareness Books

1 in 5 adults in the U.S. experiences mental illness in a given year. These adults are friends, mothers and fathers and spouses. They work beside you and bag…