Alameda mayor: Get involved in May for Mental Health Awareness Month

May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and this year’s theme is “Turn Awareness into Action.” In 2023, then-U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy authored a report in which he described hearing from Americans of all ages and socioeconomic backgrounds during a cross-country listening tour that they felt lonely — “isolated, invisible and insignificant.” Dr. Murthy’s further study of scientific literature suggested that loneliness impacts physical and mental health, including “a greater risk of cardiovascular disease, dementia, stroke, depression, anxiety and premature death” (from “Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation: The U.S....