The aim of this conference is to further explore and reveal how the voices of those living with and treating mental illness have been recorded and expressed. We hope to consider recent developments in these areas with a …
Category Archives: Treating Mental Illness
The Shameful State of the Mentally Ill in Our Jail System
In the United States, our system for treating mental illness is so broken that sometimes people with mental health issues will break the law so that they can get treated in jail. People used to think putting the mentally ill in …
Breaking point: Hong Kong's overburdened mental health care …
Waiting times for mental health treatment are the longest of all the specialist services offered in the public health system. The longest waiting time among the seven hospital districts now stands at 166 weeks, or more than three …
Letter to the Editor: Please recognize mental illness | Herald Times …
Treatment for mental health illness involves individual medication management and counseling that requires continual therapy, support, medication changes and adjustments. On Aug. 26, 2014, as I took Logan to the hospital …
The U.K. Is in the Grip of a Mental Health Care Crisis | Care2 Causes
With news that the number of serious mental health-related emergencies in the U.K., including people attempting to or taking their own lives, has rocketed in the past few years, it's time to admit that government cuts teamed …