
Rhitu Chatterjee
Mental Health Correspondent at NPR
Mental health correspondent @NPRHealth Previously at @NPRFood @pritheworld. RTs not endorsements.
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Sep 22, 2024 |
boisestatepublicradio.org | Rhitu Chatterjee |Paul Hendrickson
For people with the most severe forms of mental illness, the problem of not being able to find treatment can be deadly. Ravi Coutinho tried very hard to find treatment for his depression, anxiety and alcohol use disorder. He met frustration at every turn as he tried to find mental health care providers who took his insurance, which seemed to have an adequate network.
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Sep 22, 2024 |
nhpr.org | Rhitu Chatterjee
For people with the most severe forms of mental illness, the problem of not being able to find treatment can be deadly. Ravi Coutinho tried very hard to find treatment for his depression, anxiety and alcohol use disorder. He met frustration at every turn as he tried to find mental health care providers who took his insurance, which seemed to have an adequate network.
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Jul 15, 2024 |
wsiu.org | Rhitu Chatterjee |Ities Search
The lifeline has connected millions of people to help either by phone text or chat. But while it's gotten better over the two years, it still has a long way to go.
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Jul 1, 2024 |
npr.org | Rhitu Chatterjee
Researchers following a group of American children for decades found that even short periods of housing instability increased the chances of poor mental and physical health years later.
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Apr 10, 2024 |
wfae.org | Rhitu Chatterjee |Bob Keefe
Zion Kelly still thinks of himself as a twin. By the time he and his fraternal twin, Zaire, were in their mid-teens, people often mistook Zaire as the older of the two brothers. "He was taller than me, and his presence was just louder than mine," says the quiet, contemplative Zion, who is 23 now. "He was very social. He was extroverted. He had a lot of friends." Despite their different personalities, Zion and Zaire were inseparable.
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I was honored to have worked with @AnnieWaldman & her colleagues at ProPublica for their excellent project investigating lack of access to mental health care. This segment on @NPRWeekend sheds light on why it’s so hard to find therapists who take insurance.

And you can hear directly from several of the therapists we spoke with on @NPR's Weekend Edition, in this richly reported segment from @RhituC + @ayesharascoe https://t.co/jXBJkHctrQ

RT @AnnieWaldman: America is in the midst of a mental health crisis. But finding a therapist who takes insurance can feel impossible. Insu…

Echoing @LizSzabo Thanks to Liz Seeger & @NaseemMiller for inviting me to be on this panel. Great discussion & learned so much from my fellow panelists and the ambitious projects of the health journalism fellows!

Thanks to Liz Seegert for inviting me to speak to a group of outstanding reporters today at the Journalism & Women Symposium's Health Journalism Fellowship. Go @womenjournos! So great to finally meet Liz, @barav @RhituC and @jessiehellmann in person.