Mental illness articles
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Teen mental health is in crisis in the US, and schools are ill-equipped to help
Sandstone Care analyzed data from the Institute of Education Sciences to see how American high schools are faring in providing mental health services.
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I was the poster girl for OCD. Then I began to question everything I’d been told about mental illness
When I sought help for crippling invasive thoughts, I was told I had a disease like any other. But I wasn’t able to recover until I understood the fallacy at the heart of mental healthcareSix years ago, I sat halfway up a spiral staircase in an old medical library in London, watching an actor recreate one of the most intense moments of my life. We were filming a TV drama based on a memoir I’d written about my struggles with disturbing sexual and violent intrusive thoughts.The story had started...
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Teenager who murdered a pensioner and tried to fake mental illness to get away with it is jailed for life
Daniel Rounce (left) sought to 'manipulate the process of psychiatric assessment' after stabbing Gerald Wickes (right) in a random attack.