This is an unprecedented crisis in mental health facilities — and it needs to be addressed.
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What I Wish I’d Known About Medication: Debunking Myths About Antipsychotics
Why We Need Mental Health Care Integration
Recognizing the Lesser-Known Symptoms of Depression
My Experience with Diagnostic Overshadowing
Finding Myself in the Main Character of “Prozac Nation”
Screening through Primary Care Providers to Prevent Suicide
New Health Plans Discriminate Against Mental Illness
Reflections on Medicine, Shame and Stigma
Early Psychosis Programs Are Changing Lives—But What if You Can’t Find One?
Mental Health Conditions are Legitimate Health Conditions
Substance Use Carries Mental Health Risks—Yes, Even Marijuana
Understanding the Spectrum of Bipolar Disorder
How Do I Know if My Therapist is Effective?
Motherhood and Your Mental Health
The Comorbidity of Anxiety and Depression
Understanding Dysthymia
The First Step in Getting Mental Health Care
How to Encourage Someone to See a Therapist
Telehealth: Transforming Child Mental Health Care
Integrated Treatment for Mental Illness and Substance Use
Stigma Affects Everyone, Even Doctors
Why Borderline Personality Disorder is Misdiagnosed
FDA Approves Medications for Tardive Dyskinesia
Life After Survival: Why Cancer Survivors Need Mental Health Care
Expanding Access to Mental Health Care
Borderline Personality Disorder and Bipolar Disorder: What’s the Difference?
The Stigma in Our Health Care System
Taking Another Look a Too-Often-Forgotten Treatment for Schizophrenia
Understanding Psychotic Breaks
How Should We Be Treating First-Episode Psychosis?
Talk to Your Doc During American Heart Month
What is Tardive Dyskinesia?
Tell Us How Your Health Insurance is (or isn’t!) Working for You
Tips for Adult Smokers with Mental Illness
Exercise for Mental Health: 8 Keys to Get and Stay Moving
Changes Announced for Monitoring Clozapine to Improve Delivery of Treatment, Increase Access
Recognizing Those Who Go Above and Beyond to Improve Community Mental Health
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