Amanda Bynes‘ doctors told a judge on Thursday afternoon that the troubled actress is being treated for schizophrenia, RadarOnline.com has been learned. During a hearing at the Ventura County, Calif., mental facility where the 27-year-old is being held on an extended involuntary psychiatric hold, her treating physicians indicated that they would have a formal diagnosis […]
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Mandating Treatment for Mental Illness Could Save Money
A controversial new study suggests that requiring outpatient treatment for certain people with severe mental illness can result in substantial cost savings by cutting hospitalizations and increasing outpatient care. Researchers at Duke Medicine studied a program in New York called Assisted Outpatient Commitment, a new approach for people with serious mental illness. The issue has […]
Treating Mental Illness
There is a known way of saving patients from being a danger to themselves and others. By D. J. Jaffe Two new studies should lead to a radical change in how we treat some persons with serious mental illness. The first study, conducted in Australia, found that individuals with schizophrenia — even those who do […]
Campaign tells teens with mental illness it’s ‘OK2TALK’
The day before his 22nd birthday, Garrett Smith had had enough. The college student swallowed a handful of sleeping pills and hanged himself in his closet, ending a long struggle with depression and forcing his parents, former senator Gordon Smith and his wife, Sharon, to consider whether they had done enough to coax their son […]
Bringing mental illness ‘out of the shadows’
On Dec. 14, 2012, Adam Lanza walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., where he then proceeded to massacre 20 children and six adult staff members before taking his own life. Before he even went to the school, he shot and killed his mother, Nancy Lanza. This is not the first time the […]