Due to law that was passed many years ago, people with disabilities can legally get paid a meager wage. Well below poverty. The Huffington Post has an article about how people with disabilities should get a minimum wage.

Part of the diagnosis' ubiquity is due to the expansive varieties of the condition; beyond generalized anxiety disorders, there are various other more specific disorders that fall under the same umbrella, […]

The only true constant is change, particularly when you are part of a team committed to continuously improving the health and wellness of all Arizonans. October 1 was an important day for the behavioral health […]

The warm reception of the documentary launched Weems into semi-stardom and he became an activist for disability rights and increasing awareness about his fatal disease. Proceeds from the film and the Darius […]

WEDNESDAY, Oct. 28, 2015 (HealthDay News) — American adults with schizophrenia face a much higher risk of an early death, particularly from heart and lung diseases associated with smoking, a new study finds. […]

Bipolar disorder can be difficult to treat if a patient doesn't respond to lithium. Scientists try to determine what makes some bipolar patients different than others.

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We don't talk about mental illness in the accounting profession, even though it affects 20% of us, because mental illness comes with a stigma. When I slunk off to hide in the back of a bathroom stall three […]

The combination of rejection and bipolar disorder is equally difficult when on the giving and the receiving end of romantic rejection.

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Managing Romantic Rejection And Bipolar Disorder | MadameNoire

There have been countless depictions of mental health in fiction, from Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar to Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest to Ned Vizzini's It's Kind of a Funny Story. Yet much of the […]

Teens and mental illness: Symptoms, triggers and treatment options. Posted 11:13 AM, October 28, 2015, by WGN Web Desk … Should we be treating violence as an illness? Morning News …

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WEDNESDAY, Oct. 28, 2015 (HealthDay News) — American adults with schizophrenia face a much higher risk of an early death, particularly from heart and lung diseases associated with smoking, a new study finds. T […]

Adults with schizophrenia were more than 3.5 times as likely to die as adults in the general U.S. population, particularly from cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, and that implicates tobacco as a […]

Dr. Diana Bitner talked with us this morning about postpartum depression. She chats about it on her bog at healthbeat.spectrumhealth.org/author/bitnerd . For more information, you can reach Dr. Bitner at […]

mental-health-reform-act-murphy-cassidy-2015 We believe that mental health and behavioral healthcare reforms in the United States are vital. The vision that President Kennedy had in 1963 about accessible […]

Topics in this session will include racial disparities in a mental health court in Canada; the relationship between criminal justice officials, psychiatric crisis, and mental health; dogma and psychiatry; and […]

Prison officials Karen Steinour, the prisons health services compliance officer; Kenneth Lassiter, deputy director of operations; and Director of Prisons George Solomon talk with mental health advocates at the […]

A Washington Post-ABC News poll on gun violence published Monday included a stark finding: “By a more than 2-to-1 margin, more people say mass shootings reflect problems identifying and treating people with […]

Google's parent company Alphabet has just hired Thomas Insel, the former head of the National Institute of Mental Health, who has some pretty weird ideas about what his new job will entail. Insel told a crowd […]

Artist and photographer Melissa Spitz uses photography to capture her mother's mental illness. Her work was featured at Instagram #MyStory gallery.

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PeaceLove Co-founder, Jeff Sparr, is a man on an audacious mission — a mission to make mental illness cool. Not cool to have, but cool to support. If you aren't familiar with mental illness it can be taboo. […]