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Today's Top Beats

😠 Managing Anger
🌍 Climate Change

🏥Prior Authorizations

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How to Deal With Your Anger

Anger can be a helpful emotion when understood and managed well. Instead of suppressing it, try recognizing anger as a signal—often pointing to unmet needs or unresolved issues. Physical activity like jogging, boxing, or dancing helps release tension in a healthy way. Creative outlets such as journaling, painting, or drawing provide safe ways to process strong emotions. Avoid venting through aggression, and aim for clarity instead: acknowledge the feeling, reflect on its cause, and decide if action is needed. Open conversations and emotional self-awareness can turn anger into useful insight.

The Emotional Toll of Climate Change

Climate change is taking a deep emotional toll, especially on young people, who often grapple with anxiety, grief, and fear about the future. Feelings of helplessness can lead to sleeplessness—climate change can also directly worsen rest by increasing sleep apnea risks—and doubts about starting families. Experts suggest coping strategies like community activism, modeling sustainable habits, and taking breaks from distressing news. Educators and therapists are helping people process eco-anxiety by encouraging open dialogue and nature-based healing. Climate leaders stress that collective effort—not isolation—is key to making meaningful change.

Prior Authorization Process May Change

Health insurers have pledged to reform the burdensome “prior authorization” process that often delays or denies care. The initiative, announced with federal health officials, aims to ease access and reduce red tape by year’s end, and may involve standardizing submissions, reducing required authorizations, and increasing transparency. However, experts remain skeptical, noting past unfulfilled promises and potential new Medicaid work requirements that could offset gains. While officials tout the pledge as a meaningful step, critics argue it may simply swap one bureaucratic burden for another unless real regulatory enforcement follows.

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The percentage of nursing home operators concerned about Medicaid cuts in the budget reconciliation bill. Click here to learn what changes they’d have to make.

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Today’s Trivia Topics

It’s time once again for another round of Today’s Trivia Topics! June recognizes three very important healthcare awareness months: Alzheimer’s disease, brain health, and PTSD awareness. 

Today’s trivia is all about PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder.) To find the answers to the questions, click on the emojis at the start of each question.

🧠 How many millions (yes, millions) of American adults currently have been diagnosed with PTSD?

🧠 Approximately what percentage of patients diagnosed with PTSD recover within a year of their initial diagnosis?

🧠 True or False: Men are more likely to have PTSD than women. 

(If you or someone you know is struggling with symptoms of PTSD or their mental health, here is a list of resources compiled by the US Department of Veterans Affairs that can help in the event of a crisis.)

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