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It's not always easy for men to seek help, especially when it comes to mental health.

Stereotypes about men not talking about their emotions and phrases like "man up" add even more stigma than what already surrounds mental health. Young men busy with their careers may not think they have time to see someone. Telehealth is emerging as an attractive solution to overcome these problems.

There has been a significant rise in accidental deaths, homicides and suicides among young people across the United States, and experts are calling it a wake-up call.

The total death rate for 10- to 19-year-olds in the United States declined 33% between 1999 and 2013 but then suddenly soared 12% between 2013 and 2016, according to a new report from the National Center for Health Statistics at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (PDF).

One evening last March, Nancy Bacon saw a stranger die. She had just touched down in Toronto and set off for a business meeting, chatting on her phone as she navigated the rush-hour traffic of the financial district. She was jaywalking, hurrying across a particularly busy street, when a fire extinguisher seemed to fall from the sky, smashing to the ground just a few feet away from her.

The death of Kate Spade has renewed discussions of mental health awareness, with celebrities mourning the fashion designer's death with missives about depression and suicide prevention.

Spade, whose colorful handbags, bold prints and cheerful sayings once dominated American fashion, was found dead on Tuesday in her New York apartment in an apparent suicide, according to the Associated Press.

Stanford University students who attempt or consider suicide have been banned from campus, ousted from university housing, and ordered to pay hundreds of dollars for getting kicked out, according to a new lawsuit filed by three students and a mental health group.

In 2011, Rocky and Keith Schwartz's two teenage sons both started exhibiting symptoms of mental illness and substance abuse.

Seven years and many ordeals later, the Lebanon, N.J., family has spent more than $300,000 out of pocket for their sons' treatment due to coverage denials, first by UnitedHealthcare and later by Cigna, their insurers through Keith's job. They filed six appeals, losing every time.

MAY 20th will mark the end of "mental-health awareness week", a campaign run by the Mental Health Foundation, a British charity. Roughly a quarter of British adults have been diagnosed at some point with a psychiatric disorder, costing the economy an estimated 4.5% of GDP per year. Such illnesses have many causes, but a growing body of research demonstrates that in young people they are linked with heavy consumption of social media.

This isn't a typical sports story, but I think it's an important one.