Helen Farabee Centers

06/04/2026

June is Men's Mental Health Awareness Month. Statistics show that 1 in 10 men will experience mental illness and due to stigma, less than half of them will receive the treatment they need.

06/02/2026

What is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder? (PTSD)

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD, is a psychiatric disorder that can occur following the experience or witnessing of life-threatening events, such as military combat, natural disasters, terrorist incidents, serious accidents, or violent personal assaults.

Traumatic events that threaten personal safety may result in:

*Fear
*Re-experience (e.g., dreams)
*Sense of reliving the event
*Distress or react to cues
*Avoidance: thoughts, activities
*Numbing feelings
*Diminished interest
*Unable to recall important parts of the event
*Feeling detached
*Can’t (e.g. love)
*Sense no future
*Sleep problems
*Irritability or angry outbursts
*Difficulty concentrating
*Hyper vigilance
*Exaggerated startle response

05/28/2026

Mental illness is now officially the leading cause of disability worldwide.

With more than one in seven people globally living with a mental disorder, mental illness has officially become the world's leading cause of disability.

A comprehensive new analysis published in The Lancet has delivered a sobering milestone: mental illness is now the primary driver of disability worldwide. According to the Global Burden of Disease 2023 study, more than 1.17 billion people—roughly one in seven people on Earth—were living with a mental health condition in 2023. Since 1990, the global burden of these disorders has surged by a staggering 95.5%. Even after adjusting for population growth and aging, the rise remains sharp across nearly every region of the globe. Anxiety and major depression are leading this quiet epidemic, which erodes quality of life over years and decades rather than claiming lives immediately.

The crisis is hitting vulnerable groups the hardest, with the burden peaking among teenagers aged 15 to 19—a critical phase of neurological development. Women are also disproportionately affected due to a complex web of biological, social, and economic pressures. Far from being a luxury problem of wealthy nations, the rise in mental disorders is a global phenomenon fueled by social isolation, economic insecurity, pandemic aftereffects, and modern stressors. As health systems struggle to expand services proportionally, researchers warn that society can no longer ignore the immense toll of these non-fatal but deeply debilitating conditions.

source: GBD 2023 Mental Disorder Collaborators. (2026). Updated trends in the global prevalence and burden of mental disorders, 1990–2023: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023. The Lancet, 407(10543), 2040-2064.

05/25/2026

05/21/2026

Thanks to Kyle Gullette with the Helen Farabee Centers for training our administrative staff in crisis response!

05/20/2026

We will be closed on Monday, May 25th in observance of Memorial Day.

Our Crisis Hotline is available 24/7 by calling 1(800) 621-8504 or (903) 472-7242.

The National Su***de and Crisis Hotline is also available 24/7 by calling or texting 988 from your phone.

05/19/2026

We hope you can join us this Saturday! 💚

05/18/2026

📣Please help us welcome our May new hires!!📣

Congratulations on your new roles, Sharon, Candace, Curtis, Gidget, Billy, Amber, NeNe, and Issac! We're glad to have you!! 🥳