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These Incredible People Are Changing How Isolated Asian Groups …

As well as treating Hmong patients, Lo is conducting research to better understand how mental illness is understood in the community — finding that previous efforts to do so had gotten lost in translation. The few psychiatrists …

Helping police cope with PTSD | WREG.com

And instead of dealing with the emotional turmoil from those experiences, they learn to just "suck it up." After the recent San Bernardino mass shooting, an officer said it was like a horror story that gave him nightmares.

County, state officials meet as launch of Mental Health Court nears …

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Shelby County is just a month away from launching a new program that seeks to get nonviolent, mentally ill criminals help instead of jail time. On Thursday, different county departments and state agencies …

people with bpd (borderline personality disorder) – THE WOOD ZONE

The most commonly used name today is Borderline Personality Disorder – or BPD – as defined in the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic & Statistical Manual (DSM-IV-TR). The term "Borderline" is a historic term …

Risk of being killed by police is 16 times greater for those with …

According to a new report, half of the 7.9 million Americans with severe mental illness don't get necessary care – and are more likely to be harmed.