Tag: mental health
It’s Hard To Predict Who Will Be Suicidal. It’s Easier To...
Some mental health experts favor suicide prevention steps that are applied broadly, with protections that aren’t tied to an individual’s specific risk.
Texas Sunset Review offers chance to address the mental health crisis-to-prison...
Updates in policy for people with developmental disabilities and serious mental illness could reduce repeated cycling through the carceral system, advocates say
Paris Jackson underwent ECT for severe depression. Here’s why the treatment...
Electroconvulsive therapy is supposed to be used only in extreme circumstances, such as when a patient is suicidal or when other treatments have failed.
What is postpartum psychosis?
Attorneys for Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts woman on trial for strangling her three young children in 2023, argued before a jury Tuesday that Clancy should not be held criminally responsible for their deaths. The 35-year-old former labor and delivery nurse, they said, had been experiencing postpartum psychosis, a rare and dangerous medical condition that alters […]
States sue Trump administration over Medicaid work rule that could put...
A coalition of 25 states and Washington, D.C., says the federal rule creates paperwork barriers that could strip coverage from people with cancer, disabilities, mental health needs, and serious medical conditions.
Lawmakers and advocates support nationwide social media warning labels to address...
A push to advance social media warning label legislation is slated to expand in California, Minnesota, New York and Texas in 2026.
This mental health awareness month
Simple actions in the present make it more likely that such services will be launched in the future.
Sick and unsafe: Trump attacks on workers’ rights is an attack...
This power shift hasn't just changed paychecks—it has fundamentally altered the physical and mental health landscape for millions of Americans.
Global conflicts shatter childhoods: Record number of children living in war...
2024 marked an unprecedented crisis for children globally, with record numbers displaced, malnourished, and deprived of basic rights due to escalating conflicts.
Meet the collective offering an alternative to the ‘mental health industrial...
The Fireweed Collective offers online and in-person healing.
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Unions win settlement forcing Trump administration to rescind shutdown mass-firing policy
The agreement follows a court fight that began after roughly 4,200 federal employees received layoff notices during last fall's 43-day shutdown.
Federal judge orders White House to restore access for CNN, MS NOW and Politico
The order lasts 14 days, and the outlets have until Monday to seek a preliminary injunction after some reporters were briefly turned away despite the ruling.
The best comeuppance for the first anti-American administration – perpetual exposure as the seditious...
If Russia or China wanted a Manchurian candidate (a brainwashed stooge who betrays his own background and constituency), could they have surpassed the president harumphing in the White House?
Why didn’t Netanyahu’s cabinet preempt October 7 (since it knew about it in advance)?
New York Times reporting confirms Israeli leadership had advance intelligence before the October 7 attack, raising fresh questions about why it was not acted on.