(Aug. 2, 2016) Poor mental health can worsen financial health, and people with bipolar disorder are among those at the highest risk for negative impacts. “It has long been accepted that […]
02 August 2016 (July 26, 2016) Bipolar disorder is a serious mental illness associated with risk for relapse, hospitalization, unemployment and suicide, among other poor outcomes. Mood-stabilizing medication is the standard of care […]
26 July 2016 (July 19, 2016) Innumerable studies worldwide have found that being mentally ill increases the risk of arrest and incarceration and for death, victimization, violence and other suffering once behind bars. […]
19 July 2016 (July 12, 2016) The toll of being principle caregiver for a mentally ill loved one, already well-documented, has expanded with the Treatment Advocacy Center’s release of Raising Cain: The Role of Serious […]
12 July 2016 (July 5, 2016) As the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) is convening its annual national conference in Denver, a new study validating the effectiveness of the organization’s signature family education […]
05 July 2016 (June 28, 2016) The search for a successor to Dr. Tom Insel as director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) – the nation’s central agency for mental illness research […]
28 June 2016 (June 21, 2016) Often overlooked in debates over the merits and drawbacks of antipsychotic medication is its role in reducing suicide by individuals with schizophrenia, who die approximately 20 years younger […]
21 June 2016 (June 14, 2016) Multiple studies have found that growing up in a city doubles the risk of developing schizophrenia or other psychotic disorders in adulthood. Research also has found that […]
14 June 2016 (June 7, 2016) Going, Going Gone – the Treatment Advocacy Center’s newest survey of psychiatric beds in the 50 states and District of Columbia – does not report numbers for one category: […]
07 June 2016 (May 31, 2016) In 1939, a psychiatrist and mathematician named Lionel Penrose looked at the relationship between prison and mental health populations in 18 European nations. He arrived at a […]
31 May 2016 (May 24, 2016) One of the most important, but difficult to understand, aspects of serious mental illness is that approximately half of all people with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder do […]
24 May 2016 (May 3, 2016) The latest suicide statistics from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) are disturbing. Disturbing enough is that, at a time of generally declining mortality, suicide rates have […]
03 May 2016 (Apr. 26, 2016) Race and ethnicity significantly influence the likelihood of being diagnosed and treated for psychiatric disease, but the reasons why remain to be determined. Karen J. Coleman and […]
26 April 2016 (Apr. 19, 2016) With patients in psychiatric crisis waiting days and even weeks in emergency rooms before being admitted to hospitals, it has never been more urgent to quantify how […]
19 April 2016 (Apr. 12, 2016) The first step in helping individuals with mental illness is not to hurt them, says psychiatrist Allen J. Frances. “Unfortunately, the US approach of exclusion and neglect often […]
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