Mental Illness

⇐ newest Page 3 of 3
  • Is it all in your head?

    Yes, but that doesn't make the pain any less real.
  • Damaged goods

    The parents of a murderer sue adoption workers, claiming they should have been told about the boy's mentally ill birth mother.
  • False memory syndrome

    As women bring lawsuits, therapists are having to pay for their mistakes.
  • God, glass, LSD

    After dropping six hits of acid, my brother had his first psychotic episode.
  • Who will go nuts?

    Predicting mental illness is usually no better than gambling, but we keep trying.
  • Taking a chance on love

    Suddenly, we would be allowed to adopt a baby -- if we could accept the very real possibility that, one day, he would be mentally ill.
  • Death wish

    It's not so weird to think about suicide, but you'd have to be sick to actually do it.
  • Imagined ugliness

    New study offers hope for sufferers of body dysmorphic disorder.
  • National Depression Screening Day

    Are you one of the 19 million who will suffer from a depressive illness this year?
  • The happy prisoner

    Because of Whitewater and Kenneth Starr, she may not be seeing the outside world for the next several years, but Susan McDougal regrets almost nothing.
  • Outing your mom

    Can you survive an insane mother with your own sanity intact? The latest in a spate of mad mom memoirs, Jacki Lyden's "Daughter of the Queen of Sheba" proves you can.
  • Satan goes to Harvard

    In 'Halfway Heaven,' her otherwise acute chronicle of a Harvard student's savage murder of her roommate, author Melanie Thernstrom abandons her painstaking effort to make sense of the killing by resorting to an increasingly popular explanation of heinous crimes -- Good vs. Evil
⇐ newest   Page 3 of 3

From Salon's blogs