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.
Posted 11.17.2009 | Living
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....
Kathleen Reardon | Posted 09.29.2009 | Living
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.
Times Online | Claire Coleman | Posted 09.11.2009 | Living
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...
Regina Weinreich | Posted 09.03.2009 | Entertainment
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.
Lloyd I. Sederer, MD | Posted 08.14.2009 | Living
Recovery, making a life of contribution despite and with a mental illness, is about hope and belief and patience and persistence.
Robert David Jaffee | Posted 08.11.2009 | World
Inside a firing simulator, someone says that I am shaking my head. I am, not because I am afraid of shooting but because I am convinced that nearly all of the guys are against me.
Andy Borowitz | Posted 07.05.2009 | Comedy
According to the study, the symptoms of the epidemic include "bizarre, uncontrollable behaviors" and "grandiose self-ideations," including an impulse to compare oneself to Biblical figures.
Melody Moezzi | Posted 08.01.2009 | World
I'm the last person to take any mental health issues lightly, but when it comes to racking up crazy points, Dr. Ahmadinejad wins the prize.
Francesca Biller-Safran | Posted 07.20.2009 | Living
Male influence in a child's life is invaluable, irreplaceable and necessary for most of us. There, I said it.
Penelope Andrew | Posted 07.06.2009 | Entertainment
Belgian-born actress Yolande Moreau gives a stunning and heartbreaking performance in this partly fictionalized biography of the painter Seraphine.
Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 07.02.2009 | Living
The emotional fallout of Susan Boyle's unexpected and disappointing defeat on Saturday night was clearly devastating. The front-runner failed to take ...
Sara Whitman | Posted 06.14.2009 | Living
A friend of mine, who I'll call John, phoned the other day. He was on the way to the nursing home to say goodbye to his father, long ill, and finally ...
Sarah Newman | Posted 06.11.2009 | Entertainment
Our commitment will make a difference in changing the landscape of our society so that all homeless people and those with mental illness are treated as our equals and nothing less.
Linda Milazzo | Posted 06.11.2009 | Entertainment
Instead of telling the tales of the homeless, the film portrayed them as a Fellini-esque monolith -- a tainted Gomorrah teeming with decadence and dereliction.
Deborah De Santis | Posted 05.21.2009 | Entertainment
For those of us who work to help prevent and end homelessness, The Soloist is an all-too-real reminder of the daily obstacles people who are homeless and their advocates face.
Cindy Handler | Posted 05.08.2009 | Politics
I start wonder why the NRA hasn't launched a lucrative travel channel show. They could start each segment with "Today's shooting comes to you from..." filling in any given American locale.
Kyrina McCormick | Posted 05.04.2009 | Living
One of the things I would dearly love to pass on to parents with young children with autism of whatever nature is that they will age but not necessarily grow.
Bruce E. Levine | Posted 04.25.2009 | Entertainment
Sam Mendes and Michael Shannon remind us that people who are diagnosed with seriously mental illness can, when feeling respected, say profound things and should be taken seriously.
Robert M. Grossman | Posted 04.17.2009 | Living
I had arrived several days earlier for a gathering with a few classmates to reminisce over our years at college a half century ago. That had now ended...
Charlotte Moses Fischman | Posted 04.05.2009 | Living
When our family was thrust into the world of mental illness, we felt like we had been cast into outer space. Now, the NYC community finally has a web site to help families, consumers and providers.
Christopher Devine | Posted 03.28.2009 | Chicago
Mental illness can lead to homelessness, but the stress of losing one's home, sleeping on a park bench, and surviving from nickel to nickel could just as easily exacerbate a predisposition to mental illness.
Gabriel London | Posted 03.19.2009 | Politics
With prisons running at just under double capacity for the last decade, judges have ruled that California has been unable to meet the health and mental care needs of its whopping 157,000 inmates.
AP | CARLA K. JOHNSON | Posted 03.06.2009 | Living
CHICAGO — A new large study challenges the idea that mental illness alone is a leading cause of violence. Researchers instead blame a combinatio...
Therese Borchard | Posted 02.19.2009 | Living
In celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr.:I have a dream that one day I won't hold my breath every time I tell a person that I suffer from bipolar dis...
Robert David Jaffee | Posted 11.22.2009 | Living