New York magazine's cover story this week, put together by student journalists at the Columbia Daily Spectator, documents their work covering campus protests – and the stress and fear they and all students have been dealing with.
Isabella Ramírez, editor of the Columbia Daily Spectator, describes the stress experienced by her team of student journalists as they covered occupations and police actions – and coped with accusations of being anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim over the past eight months.
A psychiatry resident takes a look at the imperfect history of his program and becomes a more empathic doctor. Plus: More evidence that shift work is bad for your mental and physical health.
A joy-on-the-margins writer with autism has something he wants you to hear. In other news: Philadelphia's jail remains awful. And a mother in New Mexico reckons with the loss of her daughter – and mourns the health system's failings.
Neuroscientists are learning more about the big jobs of our “little brain.” Volunteers uncover the fate of “The Lost Alaskans” – 5,500 people sent to Oregon to be institutionalized during the first half of the 20th Century.
Texas libraries help connect their patrons to mental health support. Clinicians put AI to work in residential treatment facilities. And despite pushback from police organizations, medical associations and lawmakers are moving to eliminate “excited delirium” as a diagnosis.
Ibogaine helped traumatized Navy SEALs in a study and advocates want to step up the research – but others question its safety. And peer support specialists are trying to fill the mental health services gap.
A popular new book from therapist and podcaster Joy Harden Bradford, who works to provide healing to Black women and girls. Plus, easy access – and the risk of overspending – can make on-line shopping highly stressful.
Today, a story that highlights the mental distress suffered by Muslims living in Metro Detroit. And studies reveal links between domestic violence and traumatic brain injury.
Recovered addicts are helping small town Kentucky rebuild from the ravages of the opioid epidemic. New research finds Viagra may help aging brains. And more.
Listen to the voices and stories of homeless people – in their own words – thanks to a beautifully realized special feature from the New York Times Opinion section. Also: two stories related to California's Proposition 1, Gov. Gavin Newsom's controversial effort to remake mental health services in California.
More companies are offering employees a new benefit: onsite therapy. A Louisville program is making mental health care more accessible to the hearing-impaired.
Chronic insomnia can exacerbate mental health conditions, but sleep researchers have strategies that help. And a troubled former football player with a history of psychosis dies tragically – while in LA County's custody.
New immigrants in Chicago find support for the trauma they’ve endured. A film about a country that prioritizes people's happiness. And the field of addiction medicine shifts as the definition of sobriety becomes more flexible.
State senators pass a bill to allow mental health professionals put people in involuntary psychiatric holds. Ketamine clinics are proliferating across the US, with mixed results. And more.
A retired 2-star general is taking up a new fight: urging people with bipolar disorder and other mental health conditions to get the help he long avoided.
For the Israeli volunteers who recover bodies of the dead, the memories of Oct. 7 may never fade. Few people with mental illness make it through a California pre-trial diversion program that aims to keep them out of prison.
For the first time since the 1960s, the VA is ready to fund research into the use of psychedelics for PTSD and depression. “Safe bathrooms” emerge as a harm-reduction measure for overdoses in Boston.
Feeling SAD? Try “reveling in apricity.” Assisted suicide may soon be available to Canadians suffering from mental illness. And cardiac psychologists know you can't separate the body and the mind.
Millions of seniors on Medicare just gained greater access to mental health services. And cats in Chile’s largest prison offer love and purpose to the confined.
For two years now, I’ve been privileged to write newsletters for MindSite News. The opportunity has influenced my life in ways I didn’t anticipate. It pushes me to search publications all over the nation for mental health news that can educate, inform, and inspire readers to action on issues related to mental health.
New study finds exposure to marijuana use during pregnancy raises infant health risks. Plus, hairdressers in Africa join the ranks of lay people providing mental health support.
A New York Times investigation uncovered a poorly managed system of care for the city’s most severely mentally ill that put lives at risk.
Mental illness is a clever, hard-to-kill beast, and escaping it is akin to defeating a cluster of wild boar. But with proper strategy and weaponry, the invasive species can be taken down. These cue cards may help.
Over a span of span of six decades, former First Lady Rosalynn Carter was a tireless advocate who fought to transform the way that mental illness – and the people who experience mental health conditions – were viewed and treated. She died Sunday at the age of 96.
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