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Mental Illness
mental illness
Sept. 30, 2015
Drugs and Talk Therapy Affect the Brain in Different Ways And sometimes they offer complementary benefits, suggests a new study.
By Christian Jarrett
first person
Aug. 16, 2015
By Rae Jacobson
mental health
July 10, 2015
Psychosurgeons Are Burning Away OCD With Lasers It’s being used as a last resort for severe mental illness.
By Melissa Dahl
mental illness
July 1, 2015
Police Are Killing a Lot of Mentally Ill People And sometimes, the way they approach a distraught person escalates the situation instantly.
By Jesse Singal
Minorities May Be More Likely to Get Inaccurate Mental-Illness Diagnoses A study out of Israel reveals some unfortunate aspects of the clinician-patient relationship.
By Jesse Singal
mental health
Feb. 26, 2015
By Jesse Singal
case reports
Feb. 12, 2015
Some People Have an Actual Phobia of Growing Up One teenager cut down his food intake and adopted a stooped posture in the hopes he wouldn’t continue to mature physically.
By Jesse Singal
The Altruism of Comedy How one writer credits comedian Maria Bamford with reinvigorating her will to live and banishing the shame associated with mental illness.
By Sydney Parker
mental illness
Sept. 16, 2014
Schizophrenia May Actually Be 8 Disorders in One A new study explains some of the genetic roots of the disease.
By Jesse Singal
kajieme powell
Aug. 25, 2014
It’s Really Difficult to Prevent ‘Suicide by Cop’ When police protocol collides with suicidal behavior.
By Jesse Singal
mental illness
Aug. 22, 2014
Kajieme Powell Died Because Police Have Become America’s Mental-Health Workers This was a preventable tragedy, but prevention needed to start long before Powell was in an armed confrontation with police.
By Jesse Singal
mental illness
Aug. 19, 2014
Can We Make People With Severe Schizophrenia Happier? A new study suggests there isn’t a direct connection between the severity of the illness and the sufferers’ level of happiness.
By Jesse Singal
mental illness
Aug. 12, 2014
Robin Williams, Substance Abuse, and Suicide The comedian’s death highlights an aspect of suicide research that doesn’t get the attention it deserves.
By Jesse Singal
psychiatry 2.0
Aug. 14, 2013
By Maureen O'Connor
Maria Bamford and the Cathartic Comedy of Mental Illness Maria Bamford is launching a revolution from her microphone. In less than two years, Bamford has survived the death of her best friend — […]
By Marisa Carroll
newtown massacre
Dec. 17, 2012
Adam Lanza’s Mother Is Not Alone Moms set off a national dialogue on mental illness.
By Joe Coscarelli
The Uneasy Relationship Between Mental Illness and Comedy I had to take a Xanax to write this article. My anxiety makes it hard to start; my depression and self-doubt make it hard to come to any […]
By Jaime Lutz
first person
Aug. 27, 2012
The Women I Loved When I Was Manic Little did they know my passion was a symptom of mental illness.
By Adam Clark Estes
Maria Bamford Tries to Find the Humor in Mental Illness “Yeah. I have a joke about how people don’t talk about mental illness the way they do other regular illnesses. ‘Well, apparently Jeff has […]
By Jesse David Fox
let’s get civical
Jan. 27, 2009
Antonia Novello’s Shopping Problem Was former health commissioner Antonia Novello just into shopping? Or was it a disease she could not control?
By Jessica Pressler