As for the man who caused this scene last week?(Seattle Times) A mentally ill man who caused a bomb scare in downtown Seattle last when he walked into a homeless shelter wearing what appeared to be a pipe bomb and claiming to be a v...

OptumHealth Inc. is supporting a national memorial being built to honor people nationwide who died in state psychiatric hospitals and are buried in unnamed graves. While noting the significant advancements in behavioral health care...

Instead of an epidemic of over-treatment, Warner describes an epidemic of under-treatment of children with mental illness. ...

For as long as the brain has been seen as the site of mental activity, it has followed that altering brain function should be implemented to treat mental illness. Second generation antidepressants and psychotherapy are currently the...

Mental illness can affect anyone, including celebrities and public leaders. The American Psychiatric Foundation's ninth annual Conversations event, will feature sportscaster and former NFL star Terry Bradshaw, who will talk cand...

To paraphrase Bob Woodward, journalists – and their readers – should seek the truth or, more realistically, the “most obtainable version” of it.But in its coverage of crime that involves people with mental illness, the media has con...

The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) has issued the following statement on the death of John Patrick Bedell from his attack on Pentagon guards on March 4, 2010: "News reports indicate that Patrick Bedell struggled for som...

NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) recently celebrated the third anniversary of the NAMI Connection Recovery Support Group, a free support group for adults living with mental illness. NAMI offers nearly 500 Connection suppor...

The National Institute of Mental Health reports that one in every four adults – approximately 57.7 million Americans – experience a mental health disorder in a given year. One in four, and that’s just the US! And for every person i...

I privated my last post because, as I explained in it, I did indeed get the influx of, “DIET and EXERCISE and an eating disorder and antipsychotic medication and a mental illness is no excuse for being 6lbs overweight!  Throw up eve...

The shooting of two Pentagon guards by John Patrick Bedell, a mentally ill man with untreated bipolar disorder, points to the inadequacy of psychiatric practice....

I have battled depression my entire life. Depression, psychosis and suicide run in my family. Yet many of us have been able to manage our severe depression and to live with hope.

The man who opened fire in front of the Pentagon last night had a history of mental illness and had become so erratic that his parents reached out to local authorities weeks ago with a warning that he was unstable and might have a g...

Vietnam era combat pilot and national board member of NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) Clarence Jordan testified at a Senate hearing today calling for better outreach and coordination of mental health care by the Departmen...

The latest scientific conclusions — which are causal, not merely correlative — show that pot use significantly increases the likelihood of mental illness. ...

Charles Mudede on City Council Member Tim Burgess's plan to crack down on solicitation: Many of us see nothing in all of this but the continued criminalization of poverty. Problems of poverty and mental illness are, once again, bein...

Offspring of two parents with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder appear more likely to develop the same illness or another psychiatric condition than those with only one parent with psychiatric illness, according to a new study....

It’s not always easy to get along with others, even if you don’t have bipolar disorder.  But it’s especially important when you do have the disorder, because you are the face of mental illness for others who are watching you and lis...

Several decades have passed since the West stopped considering homosexuality a mental illness. But for transsexuals, that kind of milestone has been elusive -- until...

Offspring of two parents with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder appear more likely to develop the same illness or another psychiatric condition than those with only one parent with psychiatric illness, according to a report in the M...