
Elizabeth Kelsey
CommentatorElizabeth Kelsey is a freelance writer who specializes in mental health topics. She writes for hospitals and prevention coalitions. Her essays and articles have appeared in O, the Oprah Magazine; the Boston Globe; Eating Well; Runner’s World; and other publications.
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I took up swimming to get my body in shape, and only later discovered that it would also exercise my mind. I struggle with anxiety and depression, and…
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In the mid-twentieth century, “cigarette girls” distributed their wares in casinos, office workers puffed away at their desks, and parents lit up while…
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Maybe it’s the haunting choral music that’s broadcast this time of year, or the fact I’ve returned to the cold of Vermont after an escape to South…
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I’ve often been moved by the story of animal victims in the midst of human tragedy. Footage of caged, exotic birds lying dead among other victims of an…
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“I don’t know if I’m supposed to be here,” I said. I was in a meeting room at the Turning Point, a peer-run addiction recovery center in White River…
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I didn't know that the current opiate crisis is actually the third such epidemic in our nation’s history. Nor did I know that genetic factors account for…