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Countering the ‘Dark Passions’
Across liberal democracies and nations, like the U.S., that are sliding out of the democratic zone, autocrats are weaponizing our most divisive emotions. In “Anger, Fear, Domination,” William A. Galston offers a guide to how these passions spread and what it takes to keep them from overwhelming us.
AI and Our Mental Health: An Ongoing Series
As AI chatbots take on roles once reserved for therapists, MindSite News explores how AI is transforming our emotional lives and what it means for the future of mental health care.
What Was I Made For? Identity, Meaning, and the Emotional Cost of AI
Machines can now write, analyze, diagnose, and simulate emotional presence, triggering not just a technological disruption but one that strikes at who we think we are.
MindSite News Interviews
Mental Health Coalition Protests ICE Raids and Detention
Patients are avoiding health care, even in serious medical emergencies, because of ICE raids on clinics and hospitals.
AI Can’t Replace a Therapist, But Millions Use It Like One. Replika’s Founder Answers the Critics
Eugenia Kuyda built an AI companion app that act like a friend, partner or therapist. She insists that industry standards, not lawmakers, should guide how AI therapy apps evolve.
“It’s More Horrific Than What Is Being Told”: Filipinos Speak Out About Being Targeted by ICE
A series of audio interviews about detention, abusive treatment and deportation for the 4th largest immigrant group in the U.S.
Mental Health News
New York City’s Effort to Send Mental Health Workers to Crises Ends in Police Response 86% of the Time
Mayor Mamdani wants to speed up the expansion of community responders, but an analysis by THE CITY of existing efforts found that 911 dispatchers send cops in the vast majority of cases.
Years After an Infamous Death, a Pennsylvania Jail Ups Use of Restraint Chairs
Prisoners with mental illness are most commonly subjected to use of these devices, which the United Nations calls a form of torture.
Investigations
Collateral Damage: The Emotional Toll of Trump’s Immigration Policies on Asian Children and Families
An investigation into the trauma caused by ICE and its potential long-term harm in Asian youth.
Troubled Teen Industry Rocked by Lawsuits, Sexual Assault Charges
One of the nation’s largest behavioral health hospital chains continues to face legal scrutiny for alleged patient abuse and negligence.
As Philadelphia Weighs New School Closings, Advocates Ask: Does Shuttering a School Boost Neighborhood Violence?
At the center of much of Philadelphia’s gun violence is disinvestment in neighborhoods. That includes the closing of schools.
Forgotten Children: COVID’s 5th anniversary
COVID Stole a Parent from Over 200,000 Children. Indian Country Lost the Most
COVID was not an equal-opportunity destroyer. American Indian and Alaska Native children were orphaned at three times the rate of white children, and Black children at double the rate. Without support, children who lose a parent or caregiver are at risk of developing lasting problems with depression, lower academic achievement, and behavioral issues.
Opioid Orphans: Grandparents Struggle to Raise Children Left Behind
From 2011 to 2021, more than 300,000 children lost a parent to fatal drug overdoses. Despite billions set aside in opioid settlement funds, grandparents who have stepped up to raise those children get very little support.
Mental Health News
When Insurance Says No, Children Pay the Price
A proposed California law would force insurers to publicly disclose how often they deny care.
How Minecraft Therapy Is Transforming Child and Teen Mental Health Care
Two leading practitioners discuss how they do individual and group therapy that children want to take part in, using Minecraft, the most popular video game in the world. A MindSite News webinar.
Investigations
Expiring Federal Funds Threaten Chicago’s Alternative Crisis Response Effort
Chicago will need to dig deep to sustain and expand the CARE program, but state funds could offer hope.
In Depth
Michigan’s LGBTQ+ student clubs create affirming spaces inside public schools
Such alliances can provide LGBTQ+ students safe, welcoming places to connect
Refugees Struggle in New Land: A View from 40 Years Ago
In 1985, The Tenderloin Times explored the lives of Southeast Asian refugees and U.S. veterans 10 years after the end of the Vietnam War. This story offered a look at the efforts by three very different Southeast Asian refugee communities to rebuild and adjust to their new lives in a new country.
Forgotten Children
Forgotten Children is a four-part series on the tragic and underreported problem of childhood grief – and the efforts to address it. Parental death has been rising in the U.S. due to COVID-19, the overdose epidemic and gun violence.
State of Mental Health
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Art and Culture
Ahead of album release, Ye apologizes for hate speech, blames bipolar 1
Ye (Kanye West) issues a formal apology for 2025’s extremist actions, citing a 2002 brain injury and bipolar mania. Some experts and fans remain skeptical.
From “Girl, Interrupted” to “Girl in Pieces”: What I learned from reading three books about teen mental illness
How books on teens with mental illness help destigmatize and educate us.
‘The Factory of Maladies’: A Chilling First-Hand Account of Life in a Psych Ward
“The Factory of Maladies,” a memoir by Deborah Hartung, is a gripping account of being locked up in a San Francisco psychiatric ward.
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