mental illness

Canada's medical assistance in dying program was accused of driving citizens into assisted suicide on the grounds of poverty or lack of healthcare. Next March, the program will again be expanded further to include anyone whose sole underlying issue is a mental illness.

Experts blame California's 'Housing First' principle for its struggles with homelessness. The practice focuses almost exclusively on providing subsidized housing to the homeless without requiring them to undergo treatment for substance abuse or mental illness.

The Best Life Lesson for a Teen Is a Job  By James Bovard   May 26, 2023    During the Covid debacle, kids were locked out of school or otherwise condemned to an inferior Zoom education for up to two years. What were the alternatives? Unfortunately, since the New Deal, the federal government has severely restricted […]
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Canada's Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID), that encourages people who are depressed, mentally ill, chronically ill, disabled, and cannot afford to support themselves, to commit suicide. Children, called "mature minors", whose sole medical condition is mental illness, may also be considered for assisted suicide.

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US lawmaker twerks in campaign video State Senator Tiara Mack of Rhode Island also sponsored a bill aimed at teaching children about sexual pleasure Rhode Island State Senator Tiara Mack, a Democrat, released a campaign video on Monday in which she performs an upside down ‘twerk’ and calls for votes. Mack called the conservative reaction […]

It continues to come as a great surprise for many people to learn that psychiatry’s leading authorities, including the former longtime director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), have discarded the “chemical imbalance theory of mental illness”—an idea which has had a profound impact on millions of emotionally suffering people and on our […]

Insel begins by comforting his fellow psychiatrists with his claim that current psychiatric treatments “are as effective as some of the most widely used medications in medicine,” but he then asks this unsettling question: “If treatments are so effective, why are outcomes so dire?”

It is a paradox—and a very worrying one too- that in the middle of overall high levels of prosperity  the burden of mental health problems is very high in several rich countries and appears to be increasing in some important contexts. In the USA 1 in 4 adults suffers from a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year, according to[Read More...]