Five immigrants in Texas ICE detention centers share their stories of neglect, harsh conditions, and mental health while facing deportation.

NAMI Healing Minnesota is investing $1 million into grassroots mental health support to help local communities recover from trauma and crisis.

In her new one-woman play — Condemned to a Life — Amy Kraft takes us back to her childhood to explore her life with her own youthful whimsy.

Sam Jackson was once a student of James Withers. This week, the pioneer of Street Medicine watched Jackson take over Chicago’s Street Psychiatry pilot program.

Millions of teens experience depression or anxiety each year, but they say the hardest part is telling their parents.

The latest CDC teen depression statistics show notable drops in sadness and suicide risk, but critics warn key data was left out.

Keana Shatteen is building emotional literacy for girls in Chicago, helping middle school students turn feelings into positive communication.

Suicide is nearly impossible to predict, but gun access is not. Research shows red flag laws and firearm policy save lives.

TikTok videos of freshmen dropping out of college are going viral, but the data says Gen Z isn't dropping out more than past generations.

Postpartum depression gets the spotlight, but anxiety, psychosis, and other perinatal mental illnesses often go unnoticed and untreated.

Postpartum psychosis affects thousands of mothers yearly - so why does the justice system treat it differently than other brain illnesses?

'At the FDNY, we lost 343 members...The devastation was so total that action seemed like the only antidote.'

A Virginia mother’s conviction after letting her 5-year-old walk alone to a pond has reignited a debate on free range parenting laws.

A massive genome study reveals how much of your personality is genetic, linking 1,260 DNA variants to Big Five traits and real-world behavior.

Billions were spent on the 988 lifeline, but fewer than 1 in 5 people in crisis use it. Here is what research reveals about the care gap.

Grace Coleman is serving a life sentence for a DUI that killed two parents. Now she's focused on rehabilitation, recovery, and making amends.

Inside the Lindsay Clancy trial, where mothers nationwide are watching and asking what the mental health system owes them.

The "Press 3" option is slated to return this fall — but without the support of The Trevor Project, which piloted the program.

Black psychiatric patients face a 57% higher risk of being involuntarily admitted, often while families are ill-equipped to make life-changing decisions.

When A.J. Johnson's second son arrived in late 2021, the Washington firefighter took about five months of paid leave.

The fear and anxiety caused by ICE agents' aggressive tactics has led to an attendance decline of 7,000 students in schools across the U.S.

Janet Gonzalez,* 16, a San Bernardino resident and U.S. citizen, has a lot more to worry about than geometry, including ICE arrests.

Sophie had been reserving her most intimate thoughts for “Harry,” the ChatGPT bot she asked to act as her therapist.

Helicopter parenting and inflated stranger-danger panic have converged to leave both parents and kids more stressed and depressed.

When the father of pre-schooler Carlos Carino* was taken into custody by ICE agents, the changes in Carlos were immediately evident.

As ICE raids intensify across California, children in mixed-status families are living with fear and uncertainty. This series tells the stories of three immigrant families in Los Angeles whose lives…

Multiple sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln have attempted to jump overboard in recent months, amid an extended deployment.

Gov. Newsom’s CARE Court, which is meant to help people with serious mental illness, is gaining more participants in Los Angeles County.

The use of chatbots has exploded over the last two years, and people are increasingly turning to them for AI therapy.

My only saving grace was my friend and mentor, Big Mama.

As Illinois closes Logan Correctional Center and moves women to new prisons near Chicago, formerly incarcerated women share their advice.

Violence between residents is a frequent occurrence in dementia and memory care facilities, sometimes resulting in death.

Most Americans who bring someone back from an opioid overdose are friends, partners and neighbors at the right place at the right time.

Black parents in the United States experience twice the rate of infant loss faced by their white counterparts.

Adolescents and young adults are increasingly using AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini for emotional support.

Now that science understands that girls get ADHD as well as boys, studies show symptoms differ between genders.

Phoenix is a no-cost rock climbing gym and recovery community where fitness and healthy routines are the foundation of her relationships.

Companies accused of recklessly marketing and distributing prescription opioid painkillers are paying roughly $58 billion to settle lawsuits.

An expert in perinatal psychiatry makes the case for changing the health system’s process of screening for postpartum psychosis.

Credit: Kampus Production, Pexels When psychiatrist Dr. Nicholas Fabiano fractured his humerus bone in an arm-wrestling match and briefly stopped

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Medical cannabis could become what the doctor orders to ease one of dementia’s most painful and challenging symptoms: agitation.

Therapist Sarah Stuteville sees "quiet cracking" in exhausted parents, who have no off switch for the labor of child-rearing.

Researchers at Curtin University found that nearly half of all dementia cases could be prevented with consistency in certain behaviors.

A growing number of couples who have shared three decades or more are opting out of doing any more life together.

Estonia nearly eradicated fentanyl from within its borders, but synthetic drugs far more potent and deadly moved in to take its place.

A Queens family called 911 for an ambulance during a schizophrenia crisis. They got handcuffs, an arrest and a warning of what’s still broken in NYC’s mental health response.