NAMI NKY - Northern Kentucky

06/06/2026

https://nkytribune.com/2026/06/opinion-danielle-amrine-ai-unemployment-and-an-emerging-mental-health-crisis/

Society is already spending enormous amounts of time discussing what AI will do to productivity, profits and economic growth. We are spending far less time discussing what it may do to people. If we’re willing to invest billions in AI infrastructure, we should also be preparing for the human conse...

04/24/2026

Northern Kentucky Tribune:
Thank you for posting my latest article!

https://nkytribune.com/2026/04/danei-edelen-youre-beautiful-just-as-you-are-agonizing-over-body-image-only-compromises-your-mental-health/?fbclid=IwY2xjawRYT5dleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETF0S2hSUlZFYmtYR0ZEU1Fsc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHg0IN3pe8dTJ9zkW7QknOkFyyaue-p0ND5nIU_KxmueD4omXnl8I84h2X_1p_aem_cepuhd51UdDKSV3ZfTrWlw

In light of the latest studies that prove social media can damage the self-image of teens and tweens, I have a confession to make: my husband has never seen my high school senior picture. I hated that picture. I thought my face looked like Humpty Dumpty. So, I vowed to lose weight. And I did....

04/11/2026

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03/16/2026

Thank you, Northern Kentucky Tribune, for posting my latest column!

https://nkytribune.com/2026/03/danei-edelen-embracing-art-is-a-valuable-tool-in-controlling-mental-illness-and-rebuilding-the-house/?fbclid=IwY2xjawQk15hleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFUYWlFNG9DMEZoenhMQ2Nxc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHnbWHmWcj3vWcLFNBbZ7s33AQ_-HJsWbK_WwPKueBeyeacPV-Aunim2OwY0l_aem_LeJhWG2yPzR6w0L2Eq3vfA

“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.” – Pablo Picasso Imagine that your home was struck by a tornado and collapsed into the basement. How does a person recover from such a catastrophe? Anyone who has endured a mental illness diagnosis doesn’t just feel like th...

03/13/2026

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/13/it-has-changed-my-life-how-a-dose-of-nature-is-treating-mental-illness

A project in London is helping hundreds of people, providing a genuine alternative to traditional treatments

02/21/2026

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/21/nx-s1-5719338/cannabis-ma*****na-weed-teens-psychosis-jama

Researchers followed more than 400,000 teens until they were adults. It found that those who used ma*****na were more likely to develop serious mental illness, as well as depression and anxiety.

01/27/2026

Thank you, Northern Kentucky Tribune, for publishing my article on sleep!

Ever drive to work and have no idea how you got there? Ever get so little sleep that you started seeing things that weren’t real? You aren’t the only one. Americans are starving for sleep, and it’s starting to show — sometimes in terrifying ways. Andrea Goldstein-Piekarski, assistant profess...

01/14/2026

https://www.nami.org/press-releases/nami-reacts-to-abrupt-termination-of-samhsa-grants/

Cuts will further strain mental health and substance use services across the country  Arlington, VA – Late

01/04/2026

Thank you, Northern Kentucky Tribune, for running my column! Please read, like, and share!

“That and two cents will get you a cup of coffee,” my father used to say when I was growing up. He was an Evangelical Quaker pastor, a self-taught artist of wood burnings. My father was a brilliant, creative, caring man who was the stable emotional foundation of our home. Emotional foundations a...

12/12/2025

Thank you, Jake Campbell, of St. Elizabeth, for inviting me to be a part of your Living Book Exchange pilot. The Living Book Exchange invited community partners and associates to share their stories to look beyond the boundaries of titles and labels to see empathy and the story beyond the front cover.