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Mental Health


Understanding mental health is vital for educating, empowering, and reducing stigma as well as improving mental well-being for individuals and society.

 A child is seen using a smartphone.

Disconnect to reconnect: Helping kids find balance between screens and real life

 Dr. Rabbi Refael Feuerstein in the office of his late father, Prof. Reuven Feuerstein.

Jerusalem's Feuerstein Institute spreads its techniques for helping kids with trauma, disabilities

A joint study conducted by Dr. Ziv Ben-Zion has discovered that it’s possible to predict the severity of PTSD by analyzing brain connectivity patterns as early as one month after a traumatic event.

How to predict PTSD severity by brain connectivity patterns: University of Haifa researcher

 An illustrative image of two people holding hands.

Is it love? Psychologist shares 10 ways that real love manifests

By DR. MIRIAM ADAHAN
 PEOPLE IN THE center of the country take shelter during an air raid siren after Iran fired a salvo of ballistic missiles at Israel last year.

High levels of anxiety after last year’s Iranian drone, missile attack

 IDF troops operating and concluding the encirclement of Tel al-Sultan in Rafah, March 23, 2025.

Killing in warzone not harmful to soldiers' mental health if 'circumstances are justified'

 Israeli soldiers stand on a tank, ahead of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, as seen from the Israeli side of the border with Gaza, January 16, 2025.

Is there a radical new way to cure PTSD?

 Executive director at Enosh, the Israeli Mental Health Association.

Hila Hadas and Israel’s mental health crisis: A system under strain but fighting for change

 Rabbi Wolk: "This is a need that comes directly from the field."

Veterans returning from war face mental health crisis, Derech Ami steps up to help

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF , In collaboration with Derech Ami
 Participants in Terra Uma's vinotherapy for PTSD are seen making their own wine and placing their own personal artwork on the barrels.

Terra Uma: The Israeli start-up treating PTSD through therapeutic wine-making

 An illustrative image of a person dealing with severe anxiety.

Reducing sensory overload – relieving our stressed nervous system

By DR. BATYA L. LUDMAN
 An illustrative image of smartphones.

The virtual world’s impact: Are we at risk of losing the human connection?

An IDF soldier sits on a beach in Tel Aviv

After 500 days of war: Alarming amount of soldiers suffer from mental health issues

 Depression in children

Post Oct. 7: Mental health of millions impacted, Israeli gov't not doing enough - comptroller

 An illustrative image of a phone being put on silent.

The process of healing: Letting go of wartime anger, pain

By DR. BATYA L. LUDMAN
 The four female Israeli soldiers, who had been held in Gaza since the deadly October 7, 2023 attack, are released by Hamas terrorists as part of a ceasefire and a hostage deal between Hamas and Israel, in Gaza City, January 25, 2025.

How finding meaning helped hostages endure 478 days in Gaza

  EMPTY COFFINS line a street  near the Prime Minister’s Office,  in protest of the ceasefire deal,  Jan. 16 in Jerusalem.

The hostage deal: Understanding Israel’s conflicting emotions

 ‘ANYONE LIVING in Israel is affected by the war in various ways,’ says one of the workshop organizers. Marital intimacy can be an unspoken casualty of war, asserts the writer.

Relationship goals: Making space for intimacy in these challenging times

By DR. BATYA L. LUDMAN
 Depression in children

The story nobody wants to tell: Teen suicides and mental illness among Israeli youth

 An illustrative image of Hanukkah candles lit.

Hanukkah and light: The psychological benefits of positive thinking

 How much room do growth and unity take up in our consciousness?

How much room do growth and unity take up in our consciousness?

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