House Speaker Paul Ryan has declared his support for a Republican-led effort to overhaul mental health care in the United States.
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15 Finds Out: Mental illness link to mass violence misleading | WANE
That blame often lands on mental illness. Reports suggest that in the mass shootings in the United States since 1970, around 60 percent of the perpetrators showed symptoms of depression, delusions, and paranoia, …
Can USG combat USC's mental health stigma? | Daily Trojan
Before this year, USC was a campus without a strong culture of mental health awareness. But things might be changing now. In the past couple of months, the Undergraduate Student Government has led a campaign to break …
Haben Girma, deaf-blind disability rights advocate | PETER BOWES
Haben Girma, a deaf blind disability rights advocate, has a powerful message about access to education and technology for the disabled. Haben uses a digital Braille system to communicate and was the first deaf blind student …
Using 'mood maths' to understand more about bipolar disorder
Bipolar disorder – formerly known as manic depression – is a chronic, recurrent mental illness characterised by extreme swings in mood. The condition is thought to affect at least one in every 100 adults worldwide and …