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The shooter who killed 26 people in a Texas Baptist church on Sunday reportedly escaped from a New Mexico mental health facility in 2012. The mental health incident followed an episode where the shooter previously assaulted his wife and stepchild in 2011.

The majority of third world migrants living in Italy suffer from mental disorders which make them prone to “aggressive behaviour” and “psychotic episodes”, according to a study by psychologists.

Daniel Llorente, a Cuban dissident who made news in May by running into the island nation’s communist May Day parade waving an American flag, remains trapped in Havana’s notorious mental institution. Family say doctors have not diagnosed Llorente with any illness or charged him with any crime.

California Democrats are losing their minds over President Donald Trump’s mental health, leading the charge nationally to call for everything from mandatory psychiatric treatment to censure and even impeachment.

With roughly 20 military veterans committing suicide a day, backers of a new bill hope a furry best friend can make a difference.

April 18 (UPI) — Lady Gaga and Prince William joined forces Tuesday to discuss PTSD and mental illness as part of a new video that hopes to combat the stigma around mental health.

Just two hours of social media use a day can double the risk of young adults feeling “socially isolated,” according to a recent study.

A Muslim youth with paranoid schizophrenia, who yesterday pleaded guilty to killing one and injuring five, repeatedly sought help at mosques instead of a hospital as his condition deteriorated.

Since President Donald Trump took office on January 20, a trend has been emerging in which news media outlets have featured articles quoting health care professionals questioning the billionaire’s mental stability in a seeming bid to delegitimize Trump.

A New Jersey woman was arrested after allegedly grabbing a five-year-old girl from her mother and pushing the child onto the tracks as a train was nearing the station, police said Saturday.

The driver who ploughed his car into crowds on a Melbourne street killing four and injuring 15 others has been named as Dimitrious Gargasoulas, 26. Gargasoulas, who claims to be ‘Greek Islamic Kurdish’ and a follower of Yazdanism, has been

President-elect Donald Trump is causing mental health problems for young people in California. That’s according to claims by “advocates, educators and mental health providers” who say Californian youth are troubled by Trump’s policies towards illegal immigration, and that they feel targeted by “hate crimes” attributed — rightly or wrongly — to Trump’s supporters.

During Thursday’s GOP Weekly Address, Representative Tim Murphy (R-PA) touted mental health reforms signed into law by President Obama last week. Transcript as Follows: “This picture means so much to me. I keep it on my desk in my congressional office.

At least one person has died and five others have been inured — including a 4-year-old little girl — after a eucalyptus tree came crashing down onto a wedding party in Whittier’s Penn Park around 4:30 p.m. on Saturday afternoon.

Authorities in California say a man in a wheelchair detonated a pipe bomb inside the waiting room of an east Oakland health clinic on Tuesday night, killing himself in what is believed to be a suicide bombing, though not necessarily with the intent to kill others.

An NHS mental health trust “severely underestimated” the risks posed by some of its patients, resulting in the unlawful killings of ten people, a report has found.

The 6th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on September 15 that Congress must “justify” restricting Second Amendment rights to persons who temporarily received mental health treatment in the past.

Blaming terrorism atrocities on mental health issues is counterproductive, psychiatrists have warned, as the term does not explain the attackers’ motives and stigmatises those with genuine mental health problems. While terrorists are motivated by a vast range of causes mental

A senior Viennese mental health expert has expressed his concern at the speed with which the media leaps to blame high-profile attacks across Europe on mental health issues, remarking those suffering from genuine conditions should not be “lumped together with criminals”.

Members of the public are mocking the police for pursuing ‘poor mental health’ as the primary line of inquiry into the stabbings that took place in London’s Russell Square last night. An American woman was killed in the attack, and five others injured.

Rep. Karen Bass (D-CA) has launched an online petition to force the Republican Party to submit presidential nominee Donald Trump to a psychiatric examination.

After years of bipartisan calls to reform the nation’s mental health system, the Democrats stand opposed to a Republican bill because it puts safeguards in place for gun rights.

A man attacked and beheaded a four-year-old girl in Taiwan as she and her mother headed to a metro station in Taipei.

A new study released by the BMJ medical journal has said that migrants suffer from mental illnesses like paranoid schizophrenia, psychotic disorders and depression at far higher rates than their Swedish counterparts. Sweden’s Karolinska Institute and University College London used

Five different areas on the University of Texas at Austin (UT) campus were hit with graffiti bearing Blacks Lives Matter markings. The graffiti appeared after a Black Lives Matter activist shot himself on the steps of the Ohio statehouse, and after a 17-year-old black man was shot and killed during a confrontation with Austin Police officers on Monday.

A Bexar County, Texas, inmate has been found dead in his jail cell. The Bexar County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the death of the inmate in the Bexar County Adult Detention Center.

Texas Republicans were quick to condemn President Obama’s violation of the Second Amendment through his unconstitutional executive action on gun control.

A new government report reveals that a third of suicides committed between 2000-2013 were committed by new immigrants, Ynet reported.  The report, published by the Knesset Research and Information Center, showed that of the 4,806 people who committed suicide from

Family of the accused Leytonstone stabber, Muhaydin Mire, allege he complained about ‘seeing demons’, prompting them to warn police about his ‘mental health problems’ six weeks before he slashed a man’s neck in an East London tube station. Speaking to Channel

In response to the Muslim terrorism in San Bernardino on Wednesday, House Speaker Paul Ryan on Thursday argued that “mental illness” is a common “theme” among mass murderers in recent shooting sprees.

In an appearance on “CBS This Morning” on Thursday, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan reacted to yesterday’s massacre at Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, CA, and took on the issues of gun control, due process and mental health as they all

House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) urged Congress Tuesday to overhaul the mental healthcare system in the United States as a way to prevent mass shootings.

“NCIS” actress Pauley Perrette said she was assaulted overnight by a “psychotic homeless man,” and has in turn called for a greater focus on mental health care and support for men and women in law enforcement.

A researcher who investigated the new study that shows increased death rates among middle-aged, middle-class whites has revealed something even more jarring — since 2005, all the extra dead were women, not men.

After a week of polls showing the American people reacted to the Umpqua Community College (UCC) shooting with stronger support for gun rights than gun control, a Washington Post-ABC News poll released October 26 shows that an overwhelming majority of Americans also believe Congressional focus ought to be on fixing our mental health system instead of talking about more gun laws.

As Democrats focus on mental illness as an angle that can be used to justify more gun control in the wake of the Umpqua Community College (UCC) attack, singer Demi Lovato is standing up to say the mentally ill are a greater danger to themselves than to others and ought not be used as an excuse to further a political agenda.