The Israeli army arrested a mentally ill Lebanese man on Sunday, after he crossed the security fence, claiming he was pressured to do so by two Hezbollah operatives who had threatened to have him institutionalized.
A five-year-old little girl has been burned and permanently disfigured after she was subjected to a Voodoo ritual. Fire blown over her face and cuts to her body were intended to banish the demon that her mother believed made her misbehave.
Texas is working to improve its revolving door psychiatric care system thanks to decades-long efforts of those with intimate knowledge of the problems.
Trump’s perfect score on a mental acuity test once again exposes the media as wild conspiracy theorists and flat-out liars.
Yale professor and clinical psychiatrist Dr. Bandy X. Lee has warned that President Donald Trump may bring about the “extinction of the human species” because of his mental instability.
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House author Michael Wolff and his media allies must be regretting the timing of his book release, wishing now he had been able to get it out there a whole lot sooner. Three months ago, before the consequential and historic success of Trump’s first year came into vivid focus, Wolff’s conspiracy theory might have stuck to the wall.
“Actually, throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart,” President Trump wrote on Twitter.
A new study released at UCLA finds “gender nonconforming” young people in California are more than twice as likely to have psychological problems than those comfortable with their biological sex.
Nearly 200 Middle East nationals, primarily from Pakistan and Afghanistan, will arrive in the United States as refugees in January 2018 after President Trump failed to end a refugee deal with Australia that he committed to opposing.
Men account for three-quarters of the suicides in the UK, new statistics have confirmed.
A new survey reveals that young people believe being called a “snowflake” could be damaging to their mental health.
The Food and Drug Administration has approved a smart pill that digitally tracks whether it is being taken as scheduled.
The Army is allowing people with a history of mental health conditions to enlist, in order to meet recruiting goals, according to a report.
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.
A foreign national in the United States on a tourist visa has been charged with attempted kidnapping after allegedly trying to kidnap and murder a baby.
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.
The American Psychoanalytic Association has issued a statement to its 3,500 members saying they should not feel bound to a long-standing ethical rule that stated experts in the field should not comment on a public figure’s mental health unless they themselves had conducted an examination — even the President of the United States.
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.
Providers of mental health and substance abuse treatment whose services have been considered “essential benefits” under Obamacare say the healthcare plan released by House Republicans will cause those with psychological problems to lose access to care. “The proposed changes to
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
