Mental Illness

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  • I'm so angry, it's time to change

    Ever since the 2000 elections I've been angry -- not just at the government but at all of us Americans.
    By Cary Tennis August 11, 2008

  • I'm an exhausted caregiver on the point of collapse

    In caring for my sick husband and father and my demented mother, I feel I've ceased to exist as a person.
    By Cary Tennis June 4, 2008

  • Can abortions lead to mental illness?

    The debate continues about the procedure's risk to a woman's sanity.
    By Carol Lloyd March 27, 2008

  • "God talked to me today"

    I was an agnostic who never took my family to church. And then, my son starting hearing the voice of God.
    By Ann Bauer March 22, 2008

  • Shouldn't my dad be told that he has Alzheimer's?

    He's a shell of himself, but my mom hasn't told him why.
    By Cary Tennis February 12, 2008

  • The demons you know

    Bestselling author Iris Chang seemed to have everything -- including a bipolar disorder that led to her suicide. Author Paula Kamen discusses her friend's troubling story.
    By Stephanie Losee December 13, 2007

  • "Relative Stranger"

    A writer sifts through the wreckage of her schizophrenic sister's short life. Can she penetrate the helter-skelter chaos to understand what was going on in her mind?
    By Emily Weinstein August 24, 2007

  • Fatal enhancement

    Does getting a boob job increase one's risk of suicide?
    By Carol Lloyd August 9, 2007

  • My mom's a hoarder

    She's filled her house with stuff 4 feet deep and the family can't handle it.
    By Cary Tennis July 3, 2007

  • The body electric

    Our son's condition kept getting worse, and everything we tried to help him failed. Then we discovered there was one final option: Electroshock therapy.
    By Ann Bauer June 19, 2007

  • I'm ashamed to be ashamed of my father

    He's a Vietnam vet and a troubled man whose house is falling down around him.
    By Cary Tennis June 5, 2007

  • Psych meds drove my son crazy

    At 17, my son was a funny, odd autistic boy. But a misdiagnosis turned him into a violent, unpredictable man, and drove our family to the brink.
    By Ann Bauer May 18, 2007

  • I'm mentally ill but I'm no mass killer

    Will people with schizoaffective disorder be lumped in with psychotic murderers?
    By Cary Tennis April 23, 2007

  • My mother stopped her Paxil and appears to have gone crazy

    She went on Paxil eight years ago when my dad died, and now she's acting irrationally.
    By Cary Tennis February 8, 2007

  • The madness of it all

    At the mental health home where I work, patients are pushed to be as independent as possible. But it's just as vital for them to feel connected.
    By Fred Redekop May 7, 2006

  • Madness, medication and motherhood

    I have bipolar disorder. I want a child, but I am terrified of going off my meds -- and of birth defects. Do I dare trust this body to create another one?
    By Maud Casey April 3, 2006

  • Breaking news: Women worry!

    New studies show that women and men freak out in different ways.
    By Lori Leibovich January 30, 2006

  • The return of reefer madness

    The U.S. drug czar's office is running ads implying that smoking marijuana can lead to insanity. But pushing dubious science is no way to persuade teenagers not to do drugs.
    By Maia Szalavitz September 19, 2005

  • Envy and good fish just outside the padded cell

    I ate my first seafood Newburg during my stay at a mental hospital. Not all of us knew where we were.
    By Douglas Lang April 9, 2002

  • The Andrea Yates verdict is insane

    A mentally ill mother is guilty of little more than extraordinary need and dangerous fragility, and both are beyond her control.
    By Douglas Cruickshank March 14, 2002

  • Colors flies over the cuckoo's nest

    The Benetton publication's latest issue on mental illness puts respectable newsmagazines to shame.
    By Douglas Cruickshank January 9, 2002

  • Calling Ken Kesey

    A grandchild of the '60s recalls a bedtime story about the bull-goose Prankster that echoes through her family to this day.
    By Brook Wilensky-Lanford November 17, 2001

  • If I tell her she isn't invited, she'll come anyway

    As my wedding day approaches, I am a hostage to my mother's mental illness. I am petrified of what she may do on the day.
    By Kyanna Sutton November 15, 2001

  • Protecting us from predators

    Is it fair to send sex offenders deemed "dangerous" to mental wards after they've served prison time?
    By Virginia Vitzthum April 11, 2001

  • Fighting to die

    I've read about therapists who brilliantly talk people out of killing themselves. But when a patient paged me to say goodbye, I was just scared and pissed off.
    By Dan Shapiro September 25, 2000
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