mental health

Someone does not have to actively be in crisis to seek mental health treatment. The New Jersey Institute for Social Justice says it's always a conversation worth having.

The pandemic threw off routines that kids had known for years. Now what they've come to know for the past several months is shifting all over again.

Not many young students will volunteer information, unprompted, about feelings of depression or their recent experimentation with drugs.

More and more kids are experiencing what is being called the "pandemic wall," or cognitive overload, more than a year after the COVID-19 pandemic began.

Very few people who know that we have one of the best resources in the country to deal with mental health issues: NJ21

NJ 2-1-1, which can be reached by dialing those three numbers, provided resource assistance for more than 1 million people in pandemic-heavy 2020.

The coronavirus pandemic has created a "cataclysmic event" of increased anxiety and depression amongst people in all demographics in the Garden State.

"It was just me and the thoughts, and I had nothing to distract me from it. That was really, really hard," Essex County resident Renee Audrey told New Jersey 101.5.

We often don't acknowledge the stress that we are going through in our daily lives and perhaps that's even more true during this pandemic.

Nine bills advance through Assembly committees aimed at preparing for what one lawmaker calls New Jersey's next crisis.