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Once upon a time, in a marble-clad echo chamber nestled between monuments to forgotten wars and selectively remembered speeches, there stood a grand legislative cathedral. This was the Palace of Loud Intentions, a place where two houses—one of elders and one of adolescents with press passes—gathered daily to bicker, posture, and occasionally legislate, though mostly by accident. The people called…

Mental Health Awareness Month continues in its fourth week by highlighting one of the most underappreciated facts in all of healthcare: the mind and body are not separate entities. Far from existing in silos, our mental and physical health are tightly intertwined—one constantly influencing the other. Understanding this connection is not a luxury. It is a public health imperative. This week’s…

What If Stigma Did Not Exist – Who Would Still Be Alive? Who Would be becoming? I live with severe anxiety. My depression does not knock anymore—it barges in and makes itself at home. And my PTSD? It is off the chain. Not figuratively. Not dramatically. Literally. Some days, I flinch at invisible triggers. Some nights, I do not sleep at all. I have had entire weeks where the weight of simply…