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Mental Illness

The Ft. Hood Massacre: A Lone-Wolf Jihad of One?

Brian Levin, J.D. | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mental Illness, Lone Wolf Terrorists, Muslims, Nidal Malik Hasan, Ft Hood Shooting, Army, Terrorism, Al Qaeda, Politics News
Brian Levin, J.D.

The horrific shooting at Fort Hood, allegedly by Nidal Malik Hasan, a disgruntled yet devout Army psychiatrist, puts the spotlight back on the lone-wolf offender who sits at the crossroads of crime, terrorism and mental distress.

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The Mass Production of Mental Illness and What To Do About It

Anis Shivani | Posted 11.05.2009 | Books

Read More: Thomas Szasz, Dopamine, Walden Two, Dsm, Drug Companies, Richard P. Bentall, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Prozac, Psychosis, Fda, Electroconvulsive Therapy, Schizophrenia, Madness, American Psychiatric Association, Ssris, B. F. Skinner, Neurotransmitters, Evidence-Based Medicine, Treatment of Mental Illness, Psychiatry, Depression, Chlorpromazine, Drug Company Profits, Randomized Controlled Trials, Mental Asylums, Big Pharma, Ect, Placebo, Rose Kennedy, Insulin Coma Therapy, Antipsychiatry, Mental Illness, Pharmaceutical Industry, R. D. Laing, Brain Chemistry, Carl Rogers, Prefrontal Leucotomy, Psychiatric Drugs, Genetics, Psychiatric Practice, Walter Freeman, Emil Kraepelin, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, Book Reviews, Books, Books News
Anis Shivani

Dr. Richard P. Bentall, professor and practitioner of clinical psychology in Britain, exposes the highly dubious nature of reigning presumptions about the causes and treatment of mental illness.

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FDA Considers Caving to Scientology and Making Mental Illness Treatment Illegal

DJ Jaffe | Posted 11.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Church of Scientology, Mental Illness, Scientology, Depression, Mental Health, Fda, Electroshock Therapy, Schizophrenia, Scientologists, Bipolar, Psychosis, Ect, Food and Drug Administration, Electroconvulsive-Therapy, Shock Therapy, Nami, Treatment Advocacy Center, National Alliance on Mental Illness, Japan, American Psychiatric Association, Living News
DJ Jaffe

As far-fetched as it sounds, the FDA is considering making it more difficult to treat depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and psychosis.

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Is There A Relationship Between Mental Illness And Violence?

Lloyd I. Sederer, MD | Posted 10.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Mental Illness, Lloyd I. Sederer, Psychosis, Mental Health, Health, Living News
Lloyd I. Sederer, MD

Incidents such as this one, while infrequent, are sensational and spread like a viral communication that raises the spectre of dangerous "mental patients" lurking and endangering us all.

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Eric Millegan on Living (and Acting) with Bipolar Disorder: Part 2

Jamie Frevele | Posted 10.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Mental Illness, Rapid Cycling Bipolar Disorder, Hart Hanson, Bipolar, Bipolar Disorder, Bones, Depression Medication, Eric Millegan, Living News
Jamie Frevele

If you know people who are suicidal, or if you know people who are bipolar, depressed, have panic attack disorder, just be there for them. They're going through something that's very, very hard.

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Eric Millegan on Living (and Acting) with Bipolar Disorder: Part 1

Jamie Frevele | Posted 10.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Mental Illness, Rapid Cycling Bipolar Disorder, Hart Hanson, Bipolar Disorder, Bones, Eric Millegan, Living News
Jamie Frevele

Mental illness is one of the most frightening things that can happen to a human being. It's like fighting an invisible war. Not imaginary -- invisible.

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Will the Chinese Courts Allow Another Mentally Ill Individual Be Executed?

Elizabeth Lynch | Posted 10.26.2009 | World

Read More: Mental Illness, Gordon Brown, Death Penalty in the United States, Chinese Criminal Procedure Law, Chinese Criminal Law, Drug Trafficking in China, Supreme People's Court, Death Penalty in China, Death Penalty, China, Xinjiang, Akmal Shaikh, Urumqi, World News
Elizabeth Lynch

The true test of a society's criminal justice system is how well it protects society's most vulnerable.

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Mental Illness: The Stigma of Silence

Glenn Close | Posted 10.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Mental Illness, Glenn Close, Mental Health, Psycho, The Shining, A Beautiful Mind, Health, Fatal Attraction, BringChange2Mind.Org, Rainman, Living News
Glenn Close

It is an odd paradox that a society, which can now speak openly and unabashedly about topics that were once unspeakable, still remains largely silent when it comes to mental illness.

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Moving Forward on Tax Reform

Joel Judd | Posted 10.20.2009 | Denver

Read More: Corporate Welfare, State Finances, Tax Policy, Tax Reform, Mental Illness, Colorado Lobbyists, Colorado Budget, Denver News
Joel Judd

"No proof, no money" is the rule for social services in Colorado. That rule is what I am hoping the legislature will apply to tax credits and other tax incentives.

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Meds can Reduce Homelessness but the Homeless (and Advocates) Don't Get It.

DJ Jaffe | Posted 10.21.2009 | Impact

Read More: Mental Illness, Homeless, Treatment Advocacy Center, Mentally Ill, Homeless Mentally Ill, Homelessness, Schizophrenia, Mental Health Policy, Bipolar, Impact News
DJ Jaffe

It's time for advocates to stop denying the role of untreated mental illness in causing homelessness. Treatment may not be a magic pill, but it's the closest thing we have.

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NYC's Record Homeless Shelter Population and How to Tackle the Crisis

Mary Brosnahan | Posted 10.19.2009 | New York

Read More: Mental Illness, Section 8, New York Mayoral Debate, Homelessness, Michael Bloomberg, Coalition for the Homeless, Homeless Shelters, Bill Thompson, Linda Gibbs, Affordable Housing, New York News
Mary Brosnahan

Compared to 2002, 45% more New Yorkers are sleeping in municipal homeless shelters each year. Homelessness is rising -- so change the city's policy.

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Supportive Housing can end Institutionalization and Homelessness

Deborah De Santis | Posted 10.21.2009 | Impact

Read More: Mental Illness, Politics, Mental Health, Homelessness, Supportive Housing, Impact News
Deborah De Santis

Supportive housing, which is integrated housing and services, is one of the most significant public policy developments, shifting from temporary crisis services to one that seeks to permanently end homelessness.

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Elyn Saks: Recovery Of A Genius

Robert David Jaffee | Posted 10.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Mental Illness, Elyn Saks, Health, Schizophrenia, Living News
Robert David Jaffee

The vast majority of psychotics are never a threat to anyone but themselves. Those with severe mental illness but no substance abuse problems commit only 3 to 4% of violent crime.

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First Lady Stresses Small Steps To Improve Mental Health

Posted 10.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Healthy Eating, Mental Illness, Michelle Obama, Mental Health, First Lady, Fitness, Obesity, Wellness, Living News

First Lady Michelle Obama is stressing small changes in diet and exercise habits as a good way to improve health and fitness....

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Depression Alert: Reading This Post May Just Help Save a Life

Chloe Spencer | Posted 10.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Mental Illness, Depression, Cutting, Teens, Suicide, Parenting, Teenagers, Troubled Teens, Living News
Chloe Spencer

Be aware of all your friends and family, because they may be suffering from severe depression, and it's just bottled up inside them and invisible to others.

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Mental Illness Awareness Week Is Nothing to Celebrate -- In Fact, It Doesn't Even Exist

DJ Jaffe | Posted 10.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Nimh, Stigma, Mental Illness, Bipolar Disorder, Mentally Ill, Fuller Torrey, Schizophrenia, Samhsa, Mental Illness Awareness Week, Living News
DJ Jaffe

Right now, well meaning mental health advocates are busy hosting events to reduce the "stigma" of mental illness. Except that there is no 'stigma' to having a mental illness. There is discrimination.

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N.F.L. Players' Dementia: Higher Rate Of Dementia In Former Athletes, Study Finds

nytimes.com | ALAN SCHWARZ | Posted 09.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Dementia, Mental Health, National Football League, Football, Football Dementia, Sports Mental Illness, Health Study, Mental Illness, Causes-of-Alzheimers, Nfl, n.f.l., Health, NFL Dementia, Alzheimer's, NFL Alzheimer's, Causes of Dementia, Causes of Mental Illness, Living News

A study commissioned by the National Football League reports that Alzheimer's disease or similar memory-related diseases appear to have been diagnosed...

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Lies and Lying Liars Hurt the Mentally Ill

Robert David Jaffee | Posted 09.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Brian Nichols, Elyn Saks, Leeland Eisenberg, Mental Illness, Living News
Robert David Jaffee

As much as TV pundits damage the cause of the mentally ill by often ascribing mass murders to "psychotics," as opposed to psychopaths, they are not alone in perpetuating stigma.

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Uighur Brothers: Detainee Declines Offer To Leave Guantanamo Out Of Loyalty To Ailing Brother (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Posted 09.28.2009 | World

Read More: Bahtiyar Mahnu, Detainees, Torture, Guantanamo Bay, Enemy Combatants, Gitmo, Uighur, Uighurs, Due Process, Afghanistan, Mental Illness, Elizabeth Gilson, Palau, China, Habeas Corpus, Video, Arkin, World News

After eight years of detention, at least one Guantanamo Bay detainee declined an offer to resettle to the Pacific Island of Palau, according to The Wa...

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Health Care Reform Keeps Mentally Ill Uninsured

DJ Jaffe | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mental Illness, Health Care Reform, Politics, Mentally Ill, Mental Health, Health Care, Health, Politics News
DJ Jaffe

The largest and neediest group of uninsured Americans could very well be those with mental illness. If Obama really believes in equal health care for all, he should bring this population into the health reform fold.

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Psychopaths, Not Psychotics, Part II

Robert David Jaffee | Posted 09.22.2009 | Living

Read More: Mental Illness, Annie Le, Psychosis, Psychopathy, Raymond Clark III, Nathaniel Ayers, Living News
Robert David Jaffee

Many studies have revealed that when the seriously mentally ill take their medication, they are no more of a threat to anyone than the non-mentally ill.

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The Criminalization Of Mental Illness (VIDEO)

Posted 09.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Mental Illness, Prison Population, Health Care Reform, Prisons, Living News

In a new report, Al Jazeera English takes a look at just why people with mental health problems make up half the population of U.S. jails and prisons....

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The Private Measure of Self: A Crucial Part of Ted Kennedy's Legacy

Kathleen Reardon | Posted 09.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Mental Illness, Self Knowledge, Disability, Kennedy Family, Ted Kennedy Funeral, Ted Kennedy, Death, Living News
Kathleen Reardon

You don't have to be a lover of history as Kennedy was to learn, as he did, that your own history is worth study. To not know it is to assure repetition of its less admirable parts.

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Yoga Therapy Integrates The Mind And Body

Times Online | Claire Coleman | Posted 09.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Yoga Therapy, Mental Illness, Yoga, Psychotherapy, Mental Disorder, Mindfulness, Health, Psychology, Peace, Wellness, Living News

For years, yoga devotees have been telling us that bending and twisting our limbs into gravity-defying contortions is a great way to develop the perfe...

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Boy Interrupted: Interview with Filmmaker Dana Perry

Regina Weinreich | Posted 09.03.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Mental Illness, Hbo, Scott Perry, Jed Foundation, Bipolar Disorder, Evan Perry, Dana Perry, Nancy Abraham, Suicide, Teen Suicide, Hart Perry, Sheila Nevins, Boy Interrupted, Teenagers, Entertainment News
Regina Weinreich

The documentary film Boy Interrupted not only tells the story of a 15-year-old's death by suicide, but it also tells the story of a mother's anguish dealing with her son's lifelong disease of bipolar mental disorder.

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