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Offered at no cost to participants, the program has enhanced access to treatment, employment, and job training; reduced suicide and self-harm attempts, hospitalizations, emergency department visits, incarcerations, and homelessness; and significantly lowered health care and other mental illness-related costs.

mental health versus mental illness

"includes mental health statistics at the national and State levels from 35 different data sources. The report is organized into three sections: * People: the mental health status of the U.S. population and prevalence of mental illness; * Providers: providers and settings for mental health services, types of mental health services, and rates of utilization; * Payers: expenditures and sources of funding for mental health services"

A husband tells the story of his spouse's sudden onset of severe mental illness, how he supported her through it and about his own coping mechanisms, as well as perspective gained upon reflection

"unless states carefully regulate the plans that compete in the exchanges and the benefits that they offer, people with mental illness, who typically have higher health care costs, are at risk of receiving poorer quality care."

Texas Youth Commission is discharging fewer teens for failure to make progress with mental health issues

coverage in AZ to be cut

undiagnosed mi will get worse w/budget cuts

Are we doing more harm than good by exporting our diagnoses and remedies for mental illnesses? A new book - Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche - sets the agenda for a vital public discussion.

Canadian university hosts "Stop Out Stigma" week of raising awareness of mental health issues

" The American Psychiatric Association (APA) instituted a financial conflict of interest disclosure policy for the 5th edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). The new disclosure policy has not been accompanied by a reduction in the financial conflicts of interest of DSM panel members. Transparency alone cannot mitigate the potential for bias and is an insufficient solution for protecting the integrity of the revision process. Gaps in APA's disclosure policy are identified and recommendations for more stringent safeguards are offered."

often it was thought mental orders differed with respect to culture and place

double standard in political reporting? perpetuation of mental illness stigma

clinical psychology paper looks at decades of data

Profile of Marsha Linehan who developed Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) for the treatment of borderline personality disorder, revealing that she suffers from the disease herself.