For the nearly 44 million Americans who experience mental illness in a given year, 2015 could be regarded as a source of solace. This was the year that celebrities spoke up, research improved and more people started …
According to a new study by the San Francisco-based Young Minds Advocacy, as many as 70 percent of the kids in California's juvenile detention centers are in need of mental health care, and most of them are not getting it.
Whether it has been referred to as "shell shock," or "battle fatigue," or by its most modern incarnation, "post-traumatic stress disorder," all soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen who experience war don't respond to it in the same …
Dr. Robert L. Spitzer, a pioneering psychiatrist who helped define the mental health field through his work on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), is now dead at the age of 83. As reported by The …
I have to admit, it isn't all bad news though some artists have tried to combat these same stereotypes by speaking about their personal experiences with mental illness. You can find an article about seven of them here.
