NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — Mayor Bill de Blasio on Monday outlined a wide-ranging plan to support and treat New Yorkers suffering from mental illness. As WCBS 880's Rich Lamb reported, de Blasio saluted the battle …
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Reid's anger at SNP failing Scotland's mental health services while …
Alan Reid, Liberal Democrat candidate for Argyll & Bute, has called on the SNP Government to increase support for mental health services in Scotland. Mr.
Cutting the Soul: A journey into the mental illness of a teenager …
Mothers of those with mental illness share a special burden that they rest of us can only begin to imagine. They have raised and loved a person, but that person seems to have disappeared. In her book, Cutting the Soul: A …
Using 'mood maths' to understand more about bipolar disorder
Bipolar disorder – formerly known as manic depression – is a chronic, recurrent mental illness characterised by extreme swings in mood. The condition is thought to affect at least one in every 100 adults worldwide and …
Mental health needs urgent extra funding to avert crisis, say trust …
In 2015-16 that fell to 11% – a transfer of funding from mental health to acute trusts. Nationally, mental ill-health currently accounts for more than 25% of the total disease burden, but mental health services receive less than …