A London psychiatrist has said he is not under any doubt that the coronavirus lockdown has led to a surge in mental health referrals for children, saying the figure had “skyrocketed”.
Amid record-high deaths from alcohol, an increase in reports of children committing self-harm, and more people experiencing suicidal thoughts during the lockdown, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has appointed an ‘Ambassador for Mental Health’. The Prime Minister has tapped TV personality
Italy has seen a marked spike in attempted suicide among children and youth during the coronavirus crisis, tied to a lack of school and sports activities, local media report Tuesday.
Monthly suicide rates in Japan increased by 16 percent from July to October 2020 compared to the same period the previous year, Japanese researchers have found. The three-month interval coincided with Japan’s second wave of Chinese coronavirus outbreaks, Reuters reported Sunday.
Protesters in Portland, Oregon, hampered police efforts to take care of a suicidal man armed with a knife. The crowd of protesters continued to agitate the man who threatened to kill himself despite pleas from the man’s mother to stop.
A study has found significant declines in the suicide rate of adolescents in the wake of the enactment of laws that allow school choice.
Americans’ mental health is taking a much worse beating than their physical health during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a Gallup poll released this week.
A federal court struck down laws that ban therapists from counseling children who are troubled by same-sex attractions or gender dysphoria.
Japan’s Nikkei Asian Reviews highlighted the emergency of “virus vigilantes” in the country on Tuesday: enforcers that use peer pressure to keep people from violating lockdown restrictions without actually having any legitimate authority.
The number of suicides in Japan rose in October to the highest level recorded in over five years, Japanese police data revealed on Tuesday.
The Richmond, Virginia, police department said that an officer saved a woman who attempted to light herself on fire last week.
The number of people having suicidal thoughts has tripled under lockdown, as Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage warned that lockdowns meant to stop the spread of coronavirus were proving to be detrimental to other aspects of Britons’ health.
A Chicago police officer was stabbed Thursday while responding to a mental health disturbance call in a South Chicago neighborhood.
London Ambulance Service callouts to suicides or suicide attempts have almost doubled in a year, with the organisation saying it had seen a rise in the number of visits related to mental health issues since the start of the pandemic.
The Trump administration on Monday released a national plan to address homelessness across the country, including racial disparitites.
The Los Angeles-based Duchess of Sussex used a podcast aired late Saturday to lament the “almost unsurvivable” online abuse she experienced in 2019.
Rates of self-harm, depression, and suicide have increased significantly among South Koreans during the coronavirus pandemic, government statistics revealed this week.
A noted journal has corrected a study that found transgender people experience mental health benefits after hormone treatments and surgeries.
Police in Weslaco, Texas, killed a man dressed in black who allegedly pointed a gun at them inside a Walmart store.
Mental health disorders linked to the lockdowns are disproportionately plaguing minorities and young adults in the U.S., CDC reports.
Yale psychiatrist Dr. Bandy X. Lee told The Kyle Olson Show this week that she doesn’t believe a President Joe Biden potentially suffering from “cognitive issues or even mental illness” is “of concern.”
CARACAS, Venezuela – By now the world is well aware of the dire state of Venezuela. Photos of violent repressions of protests, of mobs attacking official “president” Juan Guaidó, of the thousands flooding the Colombian border have become commonplace in global media in the past decade.
The number of suicides documented by a hospital in Northern California during the ongoing lockdown has exceeded the number of Chinese coronavirus deaths, doctors in the city of Walnut Creek revealed this week as they called for an end to the region’s lockdown order.
The U.S. Census Bureau has launched a weekly survey of American households during the coronavirus outbreak.
Studies are raising concerns about the effects of coronavirus business lockdowns and social distancing on mental health.
Frequent attendance at religious services dramatically reduces deaths from suicide, alcohol, and drugs, according to study by researchers from Harvard University.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has named his wife, Chirlane McCray, to head the newly created Task Force on Racial Inclusion and Equity regarding the coronavirus.
Human-rights watchdog Bitter Winter on Saturday criticized the government of China for its long-standing, but increasingly abusive, practice of classifying human rights activists, religious believers, and other dissidents as “mentally ill” and holding them in psychiatric hospitals where they are kept docile with drugs.
Two pediatricians say a study’s data actually reveals the opposite of what its authors conclude about puberty blockers and mental health.
California Governor Gavin Newsom admitted Wednesday in his second annual “State of the State” address to the legislature in Sacramento that homelessness is a “disgrace” in the Golden State, and laid out a plan to address it.
The seven-time felon, five-time deported illegal alien acquitted for 32-year-old Kate Steinle’s murder in 2017 may undergo a mental health evaluation before facing federal gun charges, a judge suggested this week.
The Washington Post claims hormone treatment to delay puberty is “reversible,” in an article critical of a South Dakota proposed law that would criminalize treating transgender young people with medical treatments or surgery.
Surveillance video from Portland, Oregon’s Parkrose High School shows coach Keanon Lowe disarm a student who brought a shotgun to school.
LONDON (AP) – Police said Saturday that a man who allegedly lunged at shoppers with a knife at a northwestern England mall has been detained under the Mental Health Act.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), partially funded by billionaire George Soros, is suing President Trump’s administration to ensure border crossers are provided with taxpayer-funded “mental health services.”
A Gallup poll released September 11, shows that 83 percent of American adults blame a “failure in our mental health system” as a reason for mass shootings.
Many migrant children are traumatized by their parents’ decision to bring them on the dangerous journey to the U.S. border, says a report by the inspector general at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
French clinical psychologist Marie-Caroline Saglio-Yatzimirsky has warned that many migrants suffering from severe mental illness are not being properly treated. While Dr Saglio-Yatzimirsky claimed migrants do not have higher rates of mental illness than the French population overall, she said that there
Radical leftist and Women’s March leader Linda Sarsour is concerned by Democrat frontrunner Joe Biden’s (D) “overall health,” writing on Twitter Sunday that it is “actually not funny” and “can’t just be all gaffes.”
A new study has found 78 percent of gender-disturbed students meet the criteria for at least one mental health problem.
