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India Home's Executive Director advocates for better mental health …

Dr. Vasundhara Kalasapudi, the Excecutive Director of India Home, met with New York's First Lady Chirlane McCray, to advocate for better senior services for South Asians on January 19, 2016. The First Lady met with leaders …

Disability Rights Advocates Demand 'Accountability' From Dunkin …

Disability rights advocates planned to rally Monday afternoon outside state Rep. Ken Dunkin's (D-Chicago) South Side office to demand "accountability and commitment to community supports and in-home services."

PTSD is as old as the hills — Science of the Spirit — Sott.net

Psychiatrists believe that what we now know as posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is universal, and very old. Shakespeare wrote about the symptoms. So did ancient Mesopotamians and ancient Greeks. So did medieval …

Monty Panesar to air problems as part of mission to return to cricket …

The England spinner Monty Panesar plans to talk openly about his mental illness after being counselled by a cricket mentoring organisation.

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 …