{"id":2136,"date":"2021-04-19T18:51:16","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T22:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/masi2021\/?page_id=2136"},"modified":"2021-05-13T20:58:37","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T00:58:37","slug":"mental-health-material-insecurity","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/masi2021\/mental-health-material-insecurity\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental Health &amp; Material Insecurity"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2996\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2996\" style=\"width: 528px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2996\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/masi2021\/files\/2021\/05\/Mental-health-material-instability-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"This image defines material insecurity \" width=\"528\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/masi2021\/files\/2021\/05\/Mental-health-material-instability-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/masi2021\/files\/2021\/05\/Mental-health-material-instability-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/masi2021\/files\/2021\/05\/Mental-health-material-instability.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2996\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Material insecurity is the limited ability to meet basic needs such as food, water, or shelter.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the past year, everyone has been faced with some level of <strong>instability and insecurity<\/strong> due to the effects of the global pandemic, COVID-19. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This unprecedented and ongoing event has made an impact on every level of society, revealing the stark realities of how quickly our <\/span><b>material security<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> can disappear almost overnight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some of the issues that have been commonly felt through many areas of society are:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Finance and job insecurity<\/strong>, which can lead to loss of food, shelter or other basic needs.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Health issues: physically and emotionally.<\/strong> Long term stress can even lead to medical issues such as heart disease and high blood pressure (NIH)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Uncertainty<\/strong> about the future causes anxiety and further disrupts the ability to cope with change. (NCBI)\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This gallery of our exhibition seeks to highlight that these are not new issues in society and provide <\/span><b>practical resources<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to help combat material insecurity and <\/span><b>break the stigma<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the past year, everyone has been faced with some level of instability and insecurity due to the effects of the global pandemic, COVID-19. This&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/masi2021\/mental-health-material-insecurity\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mental Health &amp; Material Insecurity<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":5040,"featured_media":3940,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2136","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/masi2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/masi2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/masi2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/masi2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5040"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/masi2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2136"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/masi2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4079,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/masi2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2136\/revisions\/4079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/masi2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/masi2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}