mental illness

During his Thursday night “Keep America Great” rally in New Hampshire, President Donald Trump commented on violent crime, saying, “It’s not the gun that pulls the trigger.”

A woman purporting to be the former girlfriend of Connor Betts — the gunman shot dead by police after killing nine people in Dayton, Ohio, early Sunday morning — says he exhibited mental illness and disturbing behavior during the course of their relationship.

The American Psychiatric Association (APA) pushed back against President Trump for emphasizing the festering mental health crisis in the U.S. in the wake of the tragic shootings that took place in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, over the weekend. 

William David Phillips will face three charges of first-degree murder in the deaths of Sierra Wilson Cahoon, her son Nolan, and her unborn baby.

Democrats are planning a Capitol Hill event in hopes of reigniting questions and concerns about President Trump’s mental health.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a “Dear Colleague” letter Wednesday with warnings about the high prevalence and risk of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) among transgender individuals.

Politicians were urged to support the traditional family, as a report revealed that children from broken homes had double the rate of mental illness, poverty, or getting into trouble with law enforcement.

A man from Washington state severed his testicles using a pocket knife while suffering side effects from alcohol withdrawal, according to a report.

An actor who has appeared on the television shows Better Call Saul and Longmire admitted to a local news outlet Monday that he severed his arm and lied about how it happened by posing as a war veteran.

Activist health professionals have sounded the alarm over the situation in Calais, where Doctors of the World claim three quarters of the 500 migrants living in the hope of breaking into Britain are suffering from mental illness.

So now we know: it was mental illness that caused the Danforth Shooter to gun down 15 people in Toronto, Canada, on Sunday night, killing two of them.

French psychiatrist Pierre-François Godet has denied a causal link between radical Islamic terrorism and mental illness saying that he could find no objective studies that proved any direct links between the two.

The National Rifle Association is right to support President Trump’s call for state-level Emergency Risk Protection Orders (ERPOs) – under which a court can take guns in rare situations for just a few days when there is evidence that a person may be on the verge of extreme violence – because such temporary measures are consistent with the original meaning of the Constitution’s Second Amendment and Due Process Clause.

Democrat Congresswoman calls focusing on mental health to help stop school shootings as “fundamentally ignorant.”

Vice President Mike Pence responded to recent comments mocking his Christian beliefs, calling them insulting to the majority of Americans.

A 33-year-old Iraqi asylum seeker, who describes himself as “Iraqi Hitler” is on trial for terrorising other migrants in an asylum home including threatening an eight-year-old girl with a knife.

Despite shady details, as well as the overreach and abuse of mental health classifications seen in non-democratic countries, the World Health Organization will add Gaming Disorder to its International Classification of Diseases in 2018.

Google has introduced the ability for users to screen themselves for depression by adding the option to take a questionnaire when they search for information on the condition.

After a series of violent attacks perpetrated by migrants in Germany which have been blamed on mental illness, many have noted a sharp increase in the number of asylum seekers showing evidence of depression and trauma.

Irish singer Sinead O’Connor claims to be suicidal, suffering from mental illness and living in a motel room in the “arse end of New Jersey” in a video posted to her Facebook page this week.

The lawyer for a Nebraska teacher accused of having birthday sex with a 16-year-old claims her client’s behavior stemmed from mental illness.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Danish prosecutor says she is appealing a six-year prison sentence given to a Danish teenage girl convicted of attempted terrorism, saying she should be incarcerated in a mental institution instead.

TEL AVIV – Human Rights Watch (HRW) slammed the Gaza-based terror group Hamas on Tuesday for holding two Israeli citizens who are believed to suffer from mental illness and demanded their immediate release.

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” Bill Maher stated President Trump’s tax plan is proof that “Mental illness is sad, ladies and gentlemen.” Maher said, “Mental illness is sad, ladies and gentlemen. I think –. If you need proof

Multiple experts are calling into question the validity of the World Health Organization’s proposed revisions classifying gaming behaviors as a mental disorder.

A Washington Post opinion piece written by Paul Waldman claims the Senate vote to repeal the Social Security gun ban equals Republicans arming the mentally ill.

A gun bill in Texas has been pre-filed which, if passed, would prohibit a physician from inquiring into whether a patient has a gun in their home.

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.

An off-duty St. Louis county police officer shot and killed a man on Saturday after an argument about Black Lives Matter on Facebook led the suspect to break into the officer’s home.

After years of wasting $7 billion trying to support homeless mentally ill on the streets, Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill on July 1 to use $2 billion of Prop 63 bond money to build 14,000 housing units for the population.