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‘The Manic Monologues’ puts a spotlight on mental illness Stanford collaboration turns true stories into powerful theater.
When Stanford University graduate student Zack Burton had his first psychotic break, he and his girlfriend of several years, Elisa Hofmeister, felt scared and alone. "It was just terrifying. His personality changed so dramatically for four months; I really didn't know...
Kaiser pickets rap mental health care. Citing wait time, they seek meeting with CEO.
Kaiser Permanente patients assembled outside the health care provider’s Oakland headquarters Wednesday, calling for shorter wait times for mental health appointments and demanding a meeting with the CEO. The event was attended by officials of the National Union of...
California’s overlooked mental health ‘catastrophe’—vanishing care options.
As board-and-care-homes disappear, it leaves leave residents with few choices. By Jocelyn Wiener This summer, Tom Gray will lose his home. A slim man with hunched shoulders and a halting voice, Gray, 72, has schizophrenia. Before he landed in Carmen Palarca’s...
How a New Tool Could Help Mental Health Providers Deliver More Effective Care.
For individuals with mental health conditions, obtaining high-quality mental health care is essential to their recovery. Over the past several years, new policies and practices have attempted to promote ways to seek and reduce barriers to care. These have included...
Suicidal thoughts, mental health issues drive youths to emergency rooms.
The number of children and young adults visiting the emergency department for psychiatric concerns rose 28 percent over a four-year period, and visits having to do with suicide more than doubled, according to a study published this week in the journal Pediatrics. The...
Psychiatry’s Incurable Hubris The biology of mental illness is still a mystery, but practitioners don’t want to admit it.
Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness by Anne Harrington Norton In 1886, Clark Bell, the editor of the journal of the Medico-Legal Society of New York, relayed to a physician named Pliny Earle a query bound to be of interest to...
Court Rules Giant Insurer Illegally Denied Care to Mental Health, Substance Abuse Patients
In a landmark win for mental health and substance abuse patients, a federal court ruled Tuesday that United Behavioral Health (UBH), a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group, used flawed and overly restrictive guidelines in denying mental health and substance use disorder...
Laura’s Law works—where it’s been tried.
More than a million Californians suffering from severe mental illness go untreated. Twenty California counties have adopted a 2002 law permitting more assertive care of several mentally ill people. Most report enrollees spend fewer days in jail, psychiatric hospitals,...
Is Your Child An Orchid Or A Dandelion? Unlocking The Science Of Sensitive Kids.
Dr. Thomas Boyce, an emeritus professor of pediatrics and psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, has treated children who seem to be completely unflappable and unfazed by their surroundings — as well as those who are extremely sensitive to their...
Hip offices are part of our mental health crisis, here’s why…
Companies need to introduce systems in place to tackle mental health in the workplace, argues this entrepreneur. “You should take a mental health day.” This suggestion has become the corporate cure-all for employees experiencing burnout–which as research shows, has...