It can be hard for people who don’t live with mental illness to understand the terrifying nuances that come with the disorders. That’s exactly why 21-year-old Dutch photographer Laura Hospes published a series of stunning self-portraits that expose what mental illness can really be like.
As everyone knows, depressed people are some of the most boring people in the world,” Mindy Kaling writes in her book Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? “I know this because when I was depressed, people fled. Except my best friends.”
The untimely death of Sandra Bland in a rural Texas jail last month has led to many unanswered questions.
While working on my novel I’d Walk with My Friends If I Could Find Them I had the chance to reflect on the literature of our nation’s 21st-century wars, as well as their vital creative lineage.
In more support of the intimate connection between heart and brain, the American Heart Association has published a statement, advising doctors and the public that teens with mood disorders like depression and bipolar appear to be at increased risk of markers of heart disease.
Suffering from anxiety, depression, insomnia, or even schizophrenia? It’ll probably come as no surprise that there’s now an app for that. With modern life completely dominated by smartphones and tablets, innovators in the field of mental health are rushing to develop ground-breaking digital solutions to the problems in our heads. But are they any good?
A slew of health problems pop up on college campuses, but when it comes to mental health conditions, symptoms can look sneakily similar.
In the early 1990s, Violet Ludwig and her husband were struggling with their adult son who suffered from schizoaffective disorder and was living at home.
Former Knicks lottery pick Michael Sweetney, selected ninth overall in 2003, will be back in New York on Saturday night, playing basketball on ESPN for a $1 million prize at Fordham’s Rose Hill Gym.
It’s hard to put the experience of depression into words — the anxiety, the shame, the fragility, the loneliness. Writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie described her experience in visceral terms: “My crying puzzles me, surprises me, because there is no cause. I open a book but the words form no meaning. Writing is impossible. My limbs are heavy, my brain is slow. Everything requires effort.”