Category Archives: Mental Health Awareness

A Shocking Way to Fix the Brain – Technology Review

Neurosurgeons hope to treat some of the most intractable mental disorders by putting advanced arrays of electrodes into patients' brains.

BU Today | Boston University

… help is close by. Even so, many students suffer in silence. But those who've sought help want others to know that things do get easier with help, that going to a mental health professional isn't a reflection of a personal failing, and that they are not alone. … Preventing alcohol abuse is the top priority of Wellness & Prevention Services at Student Health Services (SHS), says director Katherine Mooney (SPH'12). With anxiety and depression sweeping college campuses, …

Contra Caplan on Mental Illness | Slate Star Codex

Therefore, all psychiatric diseases can be conceptualized in the form of preferences. This makes them very different to physical diseases, which are budgetary limitations, and we should stop saying they're the same thing and …

Agoraphobia with panic disorder – Canadian Alliance on Mental …

The diagnosis was out: “agoraphobia with panic disorder”. It was the beginning of the rest of my life… Everything changed so quickly… I made my way through the psychiatric

This Is What Living With Schizophrenia Is Really Like – BuzzFeed …

BuzzFeed News spoke to four people diagnosed with schizophrenia about the importance of destigmatising the condition and providing access…