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Tell us about your mental health struggles amid COVID-19, other disasters

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We’re digging into the stressful toll of wildfires, hurricanes and floods — and now COVID-19 on top of them. We need your help. Every year, weather-related disasters ravage communities across the United States, creating scenes traumatic and, increasingly, familiar. Deadly firestorms throughout the West. Historic floods in the Farm Belt. Catastrophic hurricanes with record rains in the South and along the East Coast.

Education

Pew Research Center data show sources of teen stress

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READ THESE STORIES:GRADES, FRIENDS, COMPETITION: THEY STRESS OUR HIGH SCHOOLERS MORE THAN YOU MIGHT THINKCOMPETING FOR SO MANY REASONS IN HIGH SCHOOL, NOT ALL OF THEM GOODCOLLEGE-BOUND, BUT FEELING PRESSURE ABOUT IT IN HIGH SCHOOL

Source: Pew Research Center (IowaWatch graphic)

Source: Pew Research Center (IowaWatch graphic)

Alzheimer's

Readers Favor Public Safety, Health Matters For Top 2017 IowaWatch Stories

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IowaWatch reporters covered a wide range of topics throughout 2017, ranging from how law enforcement officials handle their public safety duties to how we deal with health care. Readers decided which of the more than 80 stories we produced in 2017 at IowaWatch.org and in our weekly radio program, the IowaWatch Connection were the most intriguing.

mental health

Mental Health Issues Growing Among Iowa High School Students

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Facing intense academic demands and ever-present peer comparisons through social media, an increasing number of Iowa high school students grapple with mental health issues and enduring problems previous generations seldom confronted, an IowaWatch High School Journalism Project has found.

Iowa's mental health system

Iowans With Critical Mental Health Illness Struggle In System Called A ‘Crisis’ And ‘Failing Iowans’

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At first, Leslie Carpenter thought her son Patrick was on drugs. She was at home in Iowa City with her husband and about to go to bed when the phone rang. It was Patrick. “Mom, I died. I’ve been reborn,” the 19-year-old told her. “I’m God. We need to go, and I need you to take me to see Obama and Oprah because I need to save the world.”