On AlterNet: mental health
Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "mental health"
Amanda Terkel, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. September 18, 2009.
Civility!
Daniel Freeman, Jason Freeman, Independent UK. June 19, 2009.
Disturbed nights and mental illness have always been linked. Now research shows insomnia is not just a symptom, but a cause.
Joshua Holland, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. April 1, 2009.
Obama will fix it!
Blaine Greteman, Ode. February 28, 2009.
Neurofeedback is an emerging method that relaxes, enhances creativity and improves mental health.
Laura Tillman, The Brownsville Herald. February 19, 2009.
The number of mentally and developmentally disabled detainees in federal immigration detention centers has surged during the past year.
Joe Bageant, JoeBageant.com. February 11, 2009.
Stress, depression and loneliness permeate daily life in America. Yet psychiatrists try to sell us on the idea that the pain is ours alone.
Holly, Feministe AlterNet: Video. January 9, 2009.
He’s braver than me, that’s for sure.
Penny Coleman, AlterNet. November 11, 2008.
Obviously, the most immediate and reliable way to prevent soldier suicides is to get troops out of harm's way -- bring them home.
Robert Greenwald, Brave New Films AlterNet: Video. October 9, 2008.
Sen. John Cornyn doesn't support our troops or veterans.
Bruce E. Levine, AlterNet. September 11, 2008.
America's mental health problems may be more than a matter of some "unadjusted" individuals. The entire culture might well need adjusting.
Richard A. Friedman, The American Prospect. August 5, 2008.
From Virginia Tech's Cho to Hannibal Lecter, exaggerated portraits of mental illness show how much we have yet to learn about
psychiatric disorders.
Art Levine, The American Prospect. July 26, 2008.
Mentally ill adults who receive treatment in the public-health system die 25 years sooner, on average, than Americans overall.
Bruce E. Levine, AlterNet. July 23, 2008.
Establishment psychiatry is under attack in Congress. Investigators are recognizing that not all mental health treatments come in a pill.
Penny Coleman, AlterNet. April 29, 2008.
An activist travels to the DoD's annual suicide prevention conference, only to find the military brass living in a parallel universe.
Maggie Mahar, Health Beat. February 27, 2008.
The military is denying crucial care to soldiers, making them vulnerable on the battlefield.
Bruce E. Levine, AlterNet. January 28, 2008.
Big pharma has some new customers. Not complying with authority is now, in many cases, labeled a disease.
Oliver James, Comment Is Free. January 3, 2008.
The growth in greedy consumerism over the past 20 years is taking a heavy toll on the mental health of English-speaking nations.
Kathy Kastan, Huffington Post. December 19, 2007.
Suicide rates are alarmingly high among middle-aged Americans, and the holiday season often amplifies the problem.
Richard Kim, The Nation AlterNet: Health and Wellness. December 1, 2007.
Richard Kim: The gutting of public mental health services began with Reagan
Penny Coleman, AlterNet. November 26, 2007.
The military refuses to come clean, insisting the high rates are due to "personal problems," not experience in combat.
Thomas Maugh, Los Angeles Times. November 14, 2007.
40 percent of reservists and guardsmen require treatment.
Bruce E. Levine, Z Magazine. November 14, 2007.
The author of a new book on depression shows how Big Pharma is cashing in on drugs that aren't likely to help mood disorders.
Penny Coleman, AlterNet. November 11, 2007.
Americans have been effectively insulated from the human cost of our wars. That's not an accident; it's policy.
Penny Coleman, AlterNet. August 28, 2007.
The military says that there's no connection between the stress of combat and spiraling suicide rates. But the widow of a vet who took his own life knows differently.
Penny Coleman, AlterNet. June 25, 2007.
The Department of Defense recently announced that it was hiring additional mental health professionals to deal with the stream of traumatized vets returning from the occupation of Iraq. A widow of an earlier war warns that the effort may be too little and too late.
