Stories tagged "mentalillness"

Help her, Obi-Wan! Carrie Fisher's memoir of her life as a "Star Wars" icon and poster child for rehab and mental illness will likely make you laugh -- and cry.

n a new, long-term study covering more than three decades, researchers at Harvard School of Public Health found that children with lower IQs showed an increased risk of developing psychiatric disorders as adults, including schizophrenia, depression and ge

For coordinating services with crisis intervention specialists aimed at helping mentally ill people, instead of just putting them in jail, Williamson County Sheriff James Wilson was selected Sheriff of the Year by the 2008 National Crisis Intervention Tea

People with serious mental illness die 25 years earlier than the general population - for eminently treatable causes.

Anyone can have a nervous breakdown – high-flyers included. But it doesn't have to mean the end of a contented life, says Sophie Morris

Homeless people in Western countries have substantially higher rates of mental health problems than the general population, according to results from a systematic review and meta-analysis published in PLoS Medicine this week.

Psychiatric disorders appear to be common among 18- to 24-year-olds, with overall rates similar among those attending or not attending college, according to a report in the December issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journal

Aaron Glantz, who covered the U.S. occupation of Iraq in his 2006 book, How America Lost Iraq, has written a new book that focuses on the government's neglect of returning soldiers. Titled The War Comes Home: Washington's Battle against America's Veterans

Children whose eyes are misaligned and point outward are at significantly increased risk of developing mental illness by early adulthood, according to findings published in Pediatrics.