mental health
Emergency contacts
When we encounter a crisis, it’s helpful to have more phone numbers at the ready than just 911.
The uniquely American story of Crownsville Hospital
Antonia Hylton digs into the history of a Maryland asylum that forced its Black patients to build their own facilities.
Our teens are not OK
Especially the girls, whose depression levels are at record highs. Can the church help?
A clergy mental health crisis
The stress of the past few years has brought many to the breaking point.
Police shouldn’t be the first responders for mental health crises
When they are, the result can be deadly.
The time my psychiatrist sent me on retreat
He leaned back and sighed. “I think what you need is a spiritual experience.”
Working within neighborhoods to end mass incarceration
"By building social capacity, communities can respond to their own issues rather than rely on responses from the criminal justice system."
From the psych hospital to the jail
Two new books provide a devastating vision of America’s mental health crisis.
More service cuts for the vulnerable
Recently my father-in-law's Medicaid plan stopped covering Lexapro—with little notice. By the time he could get authorization for a "preferred" antidepressant, he had quit cold turkey.
Counting the cost
“War is not healthy for children and other living things.” That consciously obvious claim—a favored bumper sticker in the 1960s—came to mind while reading a report in USA Today saying that one in four soldiers at the nation’s largest army post have been in counseling during the past year.