During Mental Health Awareness Month, we recognize the significant advances our nation has made in our understanding of mental illness and in improving support and care for individuals with mental health problems.
Category Archives: Stigma
TV Needs to Stop Treating Mental Illness as a … – New Republic
Catherine Black, a celebrated neurologist and the main character of ABC's risible “Black Box” is known as “the Marco Polo of the brain.” That shouldn't come as much of a surprise: It is a truth universally acknowledged that a …
TV Needs to Stop Treating Mental Illness as a Superpower
Catherine Black, a celebrated neurologist and the main character of ABC's risible “Black Box” is known as “the Marco Polo of the brain.” That shouldn't come as much of a surprise: It is a truth universally acknowledged that a …
Do psychiatrists really think that everyone is crazy…
A diagnosis of mental illness is more common than ever – did psychiatrists create the problem, or just recognise it?
‘My son is mentally ill,’ so listen up
“More than 60 million adults and about 15 million children in America suffer some form of mental disorder. That’s one in every four adults, one in five children. Far fewer live with a serious mental illness, such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or severe depression, but the numbers are still large: 13.6 million adults and about […]