Looking back, Ray Dudley, a Delaware County sheriff’s deputy, can remember times when his job would have benefited greatly from education on mental health issues.
If celebrity bipolar suffering is beginning to trigger automatic compassion fatigue, that’s bad for everyone’s mental health.
Hundreds of thousands of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans have been flying home to a fresh fox hole: A debt crater that’s sucking in entire military families and could be helping to fuel the veteran suicide crisis.
In a surprising move, the US government institute responsible for overseeing mental health research is distancing itself from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM. The DSM has, for several decades, been perceived as the “bible” that delegates how psychiatric illnesses are defined, diagnosed, and treated.
Putnam, Rockland and Westchester counties will receive state funding for the pilot project that aims to fill a gap in veterans’ health care.
If you’re uninsured, getting on Medicaid clearly improves your mental health, but it doesn’t seem to make much difference in physical conditions such as high blood pressure.
Though stigmatised as “unstable” and “dangerous”, mentally ill people are more likely to be victims than perpetrators of violent crime, and more likely to have experienced intimate partner violence than the general population.
The second in a four-part series about mental illness, violence and health insurance.
Half a million veterans were treated for post-traumatic stress disorder in 2012.
Access to medical marijuana continues to expand as more and more states embrace the healing power of the herb. At the same time, hundreds of thousands of veterans of America’s decade of wars are returning home burdened with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), a condition as old as war itself, but that in years past went either unrecognized or was seen as a soldier’s personal failure, his “shell shock” or “battle fatigue.” Could medical marijuana help?