Five On Friday: Born To Run

1. Everybody’s out on the run tonight, but there’s no place left to hide: You would have to be Sleeping Beauty or Rip Van Wrinkle not to know we have a global crisis of 21 million-plus refugees around the world. And part and parcel with this global refugee crisis reflects a greater global mental health crisis — characterized by refugees suffering with high rates of post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, anxiety disorders, as well as psychotic disorders like schizophrenia. This week, President Obama hosted a summit on the global refugee crisis during the UN General Assembly, and attendant countries pledged an additional 360,000 refugee resettlement spots and increased mental health care. This is a drop in the bucket, and as much as there’s no place left to hide for the refugees (over half of whom are under 18 years of age), there is no hiding from this tragic state of world affairs for all of us.