Category Archives: ADHD

The Politics of Mental Illness: Chicken Soup for the Mind | World of …

Want a bigger head scratcher than your daily Sudoku game? Presidential candidates' ambivalence toward mental health. Forget defunding Planned Parenthood or denouncing the Syrian refugee crisis, presidential …

Exposure to Bullying Linked to Later Mental Illness | Psych Central …

A new study of Finnish children has found that exposure to bullying as a child was associated with psychiatric disorders in adulthood that required.

Report Implicates Societal, Health Care Systems In Early Mortality of …

In general, people with mental disorders tend to die decades earlier than the general population, mostly as a result of preventable and treatable chronic.

How This Writer Learned To Cope With His Stepbrother's… – BuzzFeed

Peter von Ziegesar is a New York-based writer who published a memoir in May 2014 about eventually becoming the sole caretaker of his schizophrenic and homeless step-brother. “The Looking Glass Brother is a fairly …

Here's What 21 Black People Have To Say About Getting Therapy

Mental illness can affect anyone, but for people of color, the experience of the illness itself is often compounded (or even caused) by racism, microaggressions, and community-specific stigma. Racism and stereotypes about …