New research suggest three factors increase the risk of violent behavior among people with mental illness. Investigators discovered alcohol use, engagement in violent behavior, or being the victim of violent behavior predict …
In every marriage with mental illness, taking care of the caregiver is as important as taking care of the mentally ill spouse. Too often we focus on the needs of the mentally ill spouse and forget that the partner supporting them …
The lead author of this work is Sara Jiménez Fernández, PhD student at the UGR and psychiatrist at the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Unit at Jaén Medical Center (Jaén, Spain). The co-authors are the UGR Psychiatry …
These are the students who were unlucky enough to be diagnosed with a serious mental illness sometime during their college career. When they got sick, their illness forced them to withdraw from classes, and they have never …
"And after Laura was killed I realized someone else's mental health problem…became my family's problem….and how someone's mental health problem became our community's problem," said Amanda Wilcox, Laura's mother …
