In March or 2007, after subsisting for five years with untreated schizophrenia, which manifested as severe psychosis, delusions, homelessness, and incarceration, I was taken to a psychiatric hospital ...

Nearly 7,800 New Yorkers were taken to hospitals against their will for psychiatric assessments in 2024, according to a new report from the Mayor’s Office of Community Mental Health. These trips were ...

The 2021 law only applies to those charged with capital offenses, high-level felonies resulting in death or serious injury, or serious sexual crimes.

I was on a call with my friend when a police officer entered her home. It was a chilly winter morning, and she was calling me to debrief about a panic attack she had just experienced. In confusion, ...

Mental health disorders affect millions of Americans on a yearly basis, and the National Alliance on Mental Illness says 1 in 20 American adults experience serious mental illness each year. A ...

Black people like Shyheim Banks bear the brunt of the public mental health system’s failures: They represent 32% of the 302 population, but just 13% of the county’s total population. The post ...