Stories tagged "mentalillness"

Mental disorders are affecting nearly 12 percent of the world's population, but mental health generally ranks low on the public health agenda, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.

Two gripping memoirs explore the guilt and confusion left behind when a relative kills himself.

More money and effort needs to be directed to understanding the causes and treatment of mental disorders to ensure improvements in the health of the community and the one in five people that experience mental illness in any one year.

More and more persons with mental illnesses, addiction disorders, and chronic and infectious diseases receive their medical care in a jail or prison, according to the October issue of the Journal of Correctional Health Care, published by SAGE. As of mid-2

Nationally, an estimated 15 percent of students experience some form of mental illness such as major depression while in college. Many often struggle with where to get support.

Students with depression, bipolar disease or schizophrenia have to find their own way through. That's what 22-year-old college senior Juliana Kerrest has done, with the help of a group called Active Minds.

I looked at Sarah Palin as a mere notary of a person John McCain brought in to pander to Hillary Clinton supporters. I did blog that I thought it was a joke - not real and that John McCain had a sense of humour - I was right, he does have a sense of humou

A federal judge in Manhattan said on Tuesday that he would order an inquiry into whether Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuroscientist whom the authorities have accused of being an operative of Al Qaeda, is suffering from mental illness or defect and theref

Talking to a friend recently it dawned on how many people you come across every week who complain of being ‘tired’. It seems that just about everyone is suffering from ‘chronic fatigue’ - find out what you can do about it.

The young man arrived with delusions. He heard voices. And his family was desperate to shake him of his demons.