About Mental Health

WASHINGTON — As Americans struggled Monday to make sense once again of the mass shootings plaguing the United States, President Trump sought to steer the national conversation to questions about the mental capacity of those pulling the triggers, not the weapons...

Mental illness can be scary, but people struggling with it shouldn't be. "Local tales and superstitions thrive best in these sheltered, long settled retreats; but are trampled under foot, by the shifting throng that forms the population of most of our country places."...

As a psychiatrist, I find that one of the hardest parts of my job is telling parents and their children that they are not to blame for their illness. Children with emotional and behavioral problems continue to suffer considerable stigma. Many in the medical community...

Glenn Close is widely known as one of the most accomplished and versatile actresses working in America today. She’s been nominated for six Academy Awards and has won three Tonys, three Emmys, two Golden Globes and numerous other honors. Now 70, she’s also dedicated...

3 ways your congregation can embrace those with mental disorders. My office is crowded with parishioners who are afraid to disclose their struggles with mental trauma to anyone in their local congregations. For the most part, they fear some sort of rejection or...

The shooting in Las Vegas Sunday night has killed at least 58 people and injured more than 500, and is being called the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. Many are still being treated with life threatening injuries. This is just the latest in a string of...

The latest Senate Republican drive to dismantle the Affordable Care Act would sharply reduce federal spending on health insurance and cause 34 states to lose such funding, according to an analysis that details the checkerboard of winners and losers the plan would...

CHICAGO — Staff at a suburban Chicago high school called 16-year-old Corey Walgren to the dean’s office to ask about a video he made of himself having sex with a classmate. A few hours later, the teen walked to the top of a five-story parking deck and jumped. The...

San Jose must pay $11.3 million to a mentally disturbed man who was shot in the back by a police officer while standing on his front lawn holding a knife, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. Hung Lam, a Vietnamese immigrant in his mid-30s, survived the shooting but...

Navigation Center takes in the mentally ill, addicted. People suffering from mental illness and drug addiction will get a boost from the city when San Francisco opens its latest Navigation Center for homeless people on Wednesday. Located at San Francisco General...