Category Archives: Disability

Why People End Cognitive Behavioral Therapy – Disabled World

Research study on why many people end cognitive behavioral therapy before end of recommended course of treatment.

Mothering with an Invisible Mental Illness | Mental Illness in the …

I know you couldn't see my mental illness when you were sitting next to me at “Back to School” night. You couldn't see the medication I swallow twice a day, or the fourteen years of therapy that have equipped me to behave so …

Lyra Health Raises $35 Million in Series A Financing to Transform …

Lyra Health Raises $35 Million in Series A Financing to Transform Mental Health Care. Greylock Partners and Venrock are lead investors. Burlingame, CA (October 14, 2015) – Lyra Health announced today that it has raised a $35 million …

Veteran uses mountain climbing to beat PTSD | GrindTV.com

Jim Stanek Jr. returned home from three tours in Iraq suffering from PTSD. He found salvation in an unlikely source: mountain climbing.

Disability rights advocates fight back after California passes assisted …

Disability rights advocates are fighting back after Gov. Jerry Brown, D-Calif., authorized assisted suicide in California. In a letter to lawmakers explaining his decision, Brown wrote that he considered “what I would want in the …