Showing results for: mental illness (page 47)
You don’t need God for comfort: 7 places atheists can turn to in times of need
Greta Christina
The support net for nonbelievers is far wider and more comprehensive than even they realize
Veterans hope MDMA can cure their PTSD: “It’s hard to talk about because it’s the elephant in the room”
Christine Jun
Salon talks to a leading activist pushing for legalizing marijuana, MDMA and ayahuasca to treat returning soldiers
Passion Pit’s Michael Angelakos comes out on Bret Easton Ellis’ podcast: “I am saying something that I’ve never said before publicly”
Erin Coulehan
This isn't the first time Angelakos has risked opening up about his personal life with candor
John Oliver’s best piece ever: This brilliant expose on our endless prison cycle is an absolute must
Sarah Burris
In 20 perfect minutes, he explains why our recidivism rate is 50 percent -- and we're spending $80 billion to fail
My rapist asked me to pray for him; I did what it took to stay alive
Lara Naughton
Unable to overpower him or escape, compassion became my only defense; it changed me as much as the assault
Our stuff is burying us alive: Hoarding and the mountains of garbage we call “collections”
Brian Thill
Would you want to inherit your friends' stuff? Your valuables might mean just as little
My sister did not pass away: This is the secret I need to share
Mary T. McCarthy
"We don't do suicides," the obituary editor told me. If we can't even say the word, how can we begin to stop them?
I signed up for a suicide hotline: What I got sounded more like phone sex
Kelly Kautz
I wanted to help depressed people like myself. Instead I got "diaper man," 'incest man" and all the others
No one told me about the loneliness, the emotional roller coaster, and how to stay sane when I could only eat a spoonful of mashed potatoes
Mollie Hawkins
I thought bariatric surgery would solve all my problems; 180 pounds later, I realized I was wrong
Bernie Sanders’s criminal justice blindspot: Why his bill to ban private prisons doesn’t go nearly far enough
Nathan McDermott
Getting rid of for-profit prison facilities is a crucial first step. But it only scratches the surface
This was Bernie before Bernie: Remembering the heroic late senator Paul Wellstone, 13 years after the plane crash
Peter Dreier
The iconic liberal senator died just two weeks out from a re-election campaign, but spirit lives in Warren, Sanders
Now Louie Gohmert and Fox News will mansplain Planned Parenthood: The new lie right-wing men can’t stop pushing
Peter Dreier
Someone make Cruz, Carson and Fox stop: Attacking Margaret Sanger is dumb politics and bad history
Welcome to the new Jim Crow: Michelle Alexander is right — our justice system doubles as a racial caste system
Sean Beaudoin, Meg Worden
Mass incarceration isn't just a system of control, it's a political philosophy. An inmate-cum-author explains
Beyond “Star Wars” and dinosaurs: Awards season begins, and it’s been a way better movie year than you think
Andrew O'Hehir
The Gothams boost Cate Blanchett's "Carol," a gritty journalism drama -- and the amazing trans women of "Tangerine"
This is right-wing terrorism: The frightening new rise of church and clinic arson — and why you won’t hear about it on Fox News
Amanda Marcotte
Right-wing extremists are setting churches and clinics ablaze. It's a scary -- and vastly undercovered -- story
Graduate students fight back at Yale: “I’m trying to support myself and my son … but it’s not working”
Elias Isquith
Yale's administration should grant a neutral election, two graduate school student-employee organizers tell Salon
The one percent’s ultimate hypocrisy: They won’t move into high-rent apartments because of the homeless displaced by high rents
Tana Ganeva
Gentrification has come full circle
The voice told me to end my life: This love quieted the voices better than any pill
Jordan Kurella
When he met me, I took one pill to quiet the voices. Now it is our marriage that tethers me to what is real
Rathergate and the dark magic of 2004: When the GOP learned how to subvert truth and alter political reality
Andrew O'Hehir
Long before Benghazi and Planned Parenthood, Karl Rove toppled Dan Rather, gutted CBS and proclaimed lies as truth
“No one can live with this much pain and anger, it’s gonna kill me”: Throwing Muses’ Kristin Hersh on Vic Chesnutt’s suicide, PTSD and why songwriters are “pretty broken”
Annie Zaleski
Salon talks to Hersh about music, mental health and her new book "Don't Suck, Don't Die: Giving Up Vic Chesnutt"
Laura Ingraham and Fox News have a dumb new lie (that sounds a lot like one of their greatest hits)
Amanda Marcotte
Democrats just want to hand out free stuff! GOP responds to debate by decrying work incentive programs as freebies
“Stick person,” “Skinny bitch,” “Giraffe”: Stop bullying me for being thin
Anna Oudra
I support women of all sizes, but the notion that "real women have curves" has made my life hell
“Angry, alienated, isolated, maybe a little delusional” — and with “access to efficient killing machinery”
Scott Timberg
A noted scholar says we misunderstand the relationship between mental health and gun violence
It’s so much worse than Ben Carson: Grotesque pandering to gun nuts from Republicans who would be president
Amanda Marcotte
As Obama and Clinton talk sense on guns, it has fallen to the GOP to bring the crazy. They have not disappointed
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