The state of mental health care in Bangladesh – in pictures. People with mental illness are severely neglected in Bangladesh and patients are stigmatised and even chained up due to a lack of understanding. Photojournalist …
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Quebec government launches 5-year plan to improve mental-health …
Health Minister Gaétan Barrette announced on Friday a five-year plan to improve access to mental-health services – with a focus on providing better treatment to troubled youth – but critics raised doubts as to whether the …
Bipolar Disorder and Drug Abuse | World of Psychology
If you were to experience the constant interference, disruption and pain that bipolar brings about, you would understand why one would resort to using drugs. Bipolar disorder makes it hard to get up in the morning, hard to …
Perceptual Disturbances Not a Major Predictor of Schizophrenia Onset
A new study has found that perceptual disturbances — a milder form of full-blown hallucinations — are not necessarily predictive symptoms of schizophrenia.
Why can't we treat mental illness by fixing the brai… – Aeon
Our understanding and treatment of mental disorders is primitive. Why is that? The burden on our society is huge. A quarter of women will have an episode of depression at some stage in their lives (it's about half that for men).