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  KUOW Newsroom

  'Forgive yourself.' Advice from a Seattle-area high school graduate

  Words can't capture all it means to everyone who will be crossing the graduation stage. But one student from Seattle's Roosevelt High School gave it a shot in a recent column for the student newspaper.
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  Week In Review

  Week in Review: Carmen Best, student mental health, and a giant crane

  Bill Radke discusses the week’s news with Crosscut’s Mai Hoang, South Seattle Emerald’s Mike Davis, and Kitsap Sun’s Josh Farley.
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  Senate gun law negotiators working toward a deal by the end of the week

  Negotiations have narrowed proposals to address school safety, standards for safe gun storage, federal support for mental health programs and incentives for states to create red flag laws.

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  Soundside

  How to help your kids process what happened in Uvalde

  Yesterday, an 18 year old man entered an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. There, he killed 21 people - 2 teachers, and 19 students. It's the 27th school shooting to occur this year. It's not a situation you can simply brush off. So how do you help your children proc
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  Washington state fights Tacoma therapist over conversion therapy

  Lawyers with the Washington Attorney General’s office are in federal court defending the state's ban on conversion therapy.

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  For two years, this Washington island has grappled with the long reach of Covid

  The virus hit Whidbey Island early in 2020, and photojournalist Lynn Johnson was there. A million deaths later, we return to see how the pandemic has subtly but indelibly altered life there forever.

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  Soundside

  Adrenaline boost, then disillusionment: This is your brain on disaster cascade

  As the Covid-19 pandemic wears on, a “twin pandemic” is emerging— a pandemic-related mental health crisis. While many are recovering, other are experiencing the impacts of the pandemic all over again. Dr. Kira Mauseth, is a specialist in disaster response and co-lead of the Washington Department of Health's behavioral health strike team. She spoke with Soundside about the varied responses from the pandemic and what we can do to regulate and readjust.
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  Soundside

  Gaming is a great hobby. But when does it become unhealthy?

  Gaming can be a quick release from the pressures of the real world. But games are made to be engaged with, either through a deluge of collectibles or quick hits of achievement. But the same mechanisms that make games enjoyable can also make them addicting. So where do you draw the line between the two?
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  Seattle Now

  Seattle Now: How's your mental health?

  Disasters like the Covid pandemic have a dramatic impact on our mental health. Two years after the pandemic started, we're still not out of the woods — but there's an opportunity to make changes for the better.
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  Soundside

  Adulting 101: Tap into your inner child

  Throughout this pandemic many of us have dipped into nostalgia and tapped into childhood to cope. Borrowing from the past can be helpful, but it can also be really hard to go back there. That’s where inner child work comes in.

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