Posted on July 1, 2016
The Atlantic
Almost 25 years after Listening to Prozac, Peter Kramer. M.D., has published Ordinarily Well: The Case for Antidepressants to counter what he feels is a destructive level of ignorance and confusion about the effectiveness of current medications. He makes the case that they work—not all the time, and not for all people, but in lots of ways that can save lives.
READ MOREPosted on June 29, 2016
San Francisco Chronicle
The Chronicle led more than 70 news organizations to focus intensively on San Francisco’s seemingly intractable problem of homelessness. This particular story. Nsationwide, approximately a third of homeless persons live with mental illness--and 80% of those who are chronically homeless.
READ MOREPosted on June 27, 2016
USA Today
American Academy of Pediatrics advises family doctors to screen teens for suicide risks after new information shows that suicide s the second leading cause of death among them, The benefits of antidepressants as a treatment option also signficantly outweigh risks.
READ MOREPosted on June 16, 2016
Washington Post
The Wasshington Post's Pultizer Prize-winning health reporter Amy Ellis Nutt sat down with NAMI for a live chat on NAMI's Facebook page--the first time the news organization conducted one on the social media page of an outside organization. The story includes video.
READ MOREPosted on June 7, 2016
The Atlantic
Anyone who kills someone is not what we would consider mentally healthy. But that does not mean they have a clinical diagnosis and therefore a treatable mental illness. There could be emotional regulation issues related to anger wich are a separate phenomenon.. I think we have a long way to go in terms of brain science to really understand those distinctions" said NAMI's senior policy advisor, Ron Honberg. "People [may] feel like, 'If I get identified as having a psychiatric diagnosis, people are going to draw certain conclusions.' It’s hard enough to get people to seek help when they need it.”
READ MOREPosted on June 7, 2016
The Virginian-Pilot
NAMI, NAMI Virginia and NAMI Hampton-Newport News aree among the national and state organizations are outraged ov er the dealth of a man in the Hampton Roads Regional Jail. "W are extremely concerned about the likelihood of future deaths if problems are not remedied." they declared in a letter to the U.S. Depsartment of Justiice.
READ MOREPosted on June 7, 2016
Cosmopolitan
Honest adviced from those who know. #1 is don't say that a person's life isn't really bad; it only trivializes a medical illness. #7 is also important: don't romanticize the illness by claiming it's cool because so many creative actors, artists and writers have it.
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Posted on June 6, 2016
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (press release)
A study led by a John Hopkins researcher, published in the journal of Health Affairs, has found that almost 40% of news stories about mental illness connect it to viloence toward others, even nthough less than 5% of violence in the U.S. is directly relatedd to violence. Skewed perception constributes to stigma, fear and discrimination.
READ MOREPosted on June 5, 2016
Los Angeles Times
A legal theory of “permanent incompetence” may make California the first to address a growing problem of aging and gravely mentally ill inmates awaiting ever-delayed execution.
READ MOREPosted on June 5, 2016
Los Angeles Times
Clkick on the photo of each man on death row who has serious mental health issues to explore his story.Comptency is examined only weeks before execution.
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