Rhitu Chatterjee
Mental Health Correspondent at NPR
Mental health correspondent @NPRHealth Previously at @NPRFood @pritheworld. RTs not endorsements.
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1 week ago |
mprnews.org | Rhitu Chatterjee
If you or someone you know is in crisis, contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline via call, text or chat. A new study finds that addiction to social media, mobile phones and video games is linked to a higher risk of suicidal thoughts and behaviors. The study, published in JAMA on Wednesday, looked at data on more than 4,000 kids from an ongoing longitudinal study following them for years, starting at ages 9 to 10.
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1 week ago |
laist.com | Rhitu Chatterjee
The study asked about signs of addiction to mobile phones, social media and video games. Those signs can include being preoccupied thinking about them and being unable to cut down on using them. Read on ... to learn how the researchers studied phone addiction and details on their findings. What the researchers say: "And these youth are significantly more likely to report suicidal behaviors and thoughts," says study author Yunyu Xiao, a professor at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York.
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1 week ago |
tpr.org | Rhitu Chatterjee |Selena Simmons-Duffin
Updated June 19, 2025 at 4:05 AM CDTThe Trump administration is ending specialized suicide prevention services for LGBTQ+ youth on the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. While anyone in a mental health crisis can call or text 988 and be connected to a trained counselor, the line has specially trained counselors, often with similar life experiences, for high risk groups like veterans and LGBTQ+ youth.
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1 week ago |
mprnews.org | Rhitu Chatterjee
The Trump administration is ending specialized suicide prevention services for LGBTQ+ youth on the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. While anyone in a mental health crisis can call or text 988 and be connected to a trained counselor, the line has specially trained counselors, often with similar life experiences, for high risk groups like veterans and LGBTQ+ youth.
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3 weeks ago |
fm.kuac.org | Rhitu Chatterjee
JUANA SUMMERS, HOST:A new health advisory calls on developers of artificial intelligence and educators to do more to protect young people from manipulation and exploitation. NPR's Rhitu Chatterjee reports. RHITU CHATTERJEE, BYLINE: Systems using artificial intelligence are already pervasive in our increasingly digital lives. MITCH PRINSTEIN: It's the part of your email application that finishes a sentence for you, or spell checks.
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RT @nprscottsimon: Ahead: talk-therapy make a recovery in mental health, says @RhituC. The historian William Dalrymple on India’s historic…
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…
