All posts tagged "mental health"
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Two Poems by Megan Arlett
Period. Stop. In England, where I paused my mother’s period for nine months, period means period. Period. And ‘full stop’ means a period. A single...
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Complexities and Messiness: Race, Gender, Disability and the Carceral State (Part I)
By Carolyn Tyjewski I’ve been an activist for decades, and always intentionally (and sometimes not) at the intersections of communities that are fighting similar battles. Whether...
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Personal is Political: Post-Abortion Mental Health Is a Feminist Issue
It’s our duty as feminists to keep abortion legal and safe—and safe means that we need to address the underlying problems that are causing women...
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Personal is Political: On Institutional Abuse in Psychiatric Facilities (Part II)
I made a commitment then and there to do everything within my power to make mental healthcare a safe and affirming space for all the...
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Personal is Political: On Institutional Abuse in Psychiatric Facilities (Part I)
I told the nurses politely that I wished to leave, knowing this wasn’t the best environment for my health. This statement alone made me an...
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Meditations of a Deviant Daughter
By Tanwi Nandini Islam When something happened. An allusion to something ominous from the distant past. I documented my rape thoroughly in my creative work,...
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Black Men Writing to Live: Brothers' Letters
By Mychal Denzel Smith, Darnell L. Moore, Kiese Laymon, and Kai M. Green What follows is a series of letters shared between four writers who...
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A Sliver of Silver in "Silver Linings Playbook": A Look at Mental Illness in Film
Hollywood is notorious for the ways it presents and brandishes mental health to mass audiences. In the rare instances in which a major motion picture...
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Using Ketamine for Depression
In any given year, 7% of adults suffer from major depression, and at least 1 in 10 youth will reckon with the disorder at some point...
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Woman Who Sold Suicide Kits Will Be Sentenced For Tax Crimes
A 92-year-old woman who sold $40 kits for people to kill themselves faces sentencing in San Diego for failing to file federal tax returns. Sharlotte Hydorn faces...
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Student Left in DEA Cell for Days
Daniel Chong, the UC San Diego student who was left in a Drug Enforcement Administration holding cell for nearly five days, said the time spent...
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Rape Victims Say Military Labels Them 'Crazy'
Women in all branches of the armed forces, including the Coast Guard, have relayed stories that follow a similar pattern — a sexual assault, a...
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Tape Shows Teen Being Shocked 31 Times
Andre McCollins is suing the Judge Rotenberg Center for developmentally disabled students, which treated him in part by attaching electrodes to his body and shocking him....
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Racial Attitudes and Opinions on Healthcare Reform
As the Supreme Court gets ready to hear a case involving the constitutionality of President Obama’s health care overhaul, social scientists are asking a disturbing...
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Classifying Grief as a Mental Illness
Is grief a disease? That is one of the crucial questions psychologists are asking as the American Psychiatric Association revises its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental...
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Canadian Study Shows Police Need Help Interacting with Mental Health Patients
People living with a mental health problem or illness report a variety of experiences interacting with police in British Columbia, suggesting a need for better...
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New York Medicaid Cuts to Hurt Mental Health Services
Influential African-American legislative leaders are pushing to get New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s administration to relax a cost-cutting measure that they say forces patients to...
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Mental Health and Illness: A Forum
Psychological issues permeate and are affected by many aspects of our society – including gender, race, sexuality, class, age, nationality, culture, language, identity, education, religion,...
