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The Forgotten in Mental Health Facilities Do Have a Few Advocates

Psychiatry has not a checkered past but a past that must push all of us into a more enlightened future. Relating the past, just...

Christmas in a Psychiatric Hospital

The end of the year is now in sight and several holidays are nearing. Thoughts turn to presents, celebrations, and reunions with family and friends. What happens when the holidays are celebrated in a psychiatric hospital?

Medicine’s Greatest Fallacy: The Doctors Will Fix Me Now

Your health is the most precious thing you possess and the thing you are most likely to take for granted.

U.S. Prepares Launch of a National Three-Digit Number for the Mental Health Crisis Hotline

As the federal government prepares to launch the national three-digit number “988” for the mental health crisis hotline next month, a new KFF analysis shows that suicide death rates increased by 12 percent in the decade from 2010 to 2020 — with death rates rising the fastest among people of color, younger individuals, and people who live in rural areas.