Showing results for: mental illness (page 79)
Princess Leia’s wild, bipolar adventures
Rebecca Traister
Help her, Obi-Wan! Carrie Fisher's memoir of her life as a "Star Wars" icon and poster child for rehab and mental illness will likely make you laugh -- and cry.
National Review asks: Did WaMu fail because it employed minorities?
Glenn Greenwald
And a conservative professor warns that Barack Obama was assisted by affirmative action and has a "thinly veiled hatred for this country's unique culture and institutions."
When kids become mass murderers
Laura Miller
What turns an angry, alienated teen into a school shooter -- and what can we do it about it?
The hemline effect
Judy Berman
With the economy in the toilet, one mother cheers the return of modest clothing.
It all started with the Germs
Andrew O'Hehir
A loving, low-budget film tries to revive the undead spirit of Darby Crash and L.A.'s most anarchic punk pioneers. But some things aren't easy to resurrect.
Stop the noise!
Katharine Mieszkowski
When noise pollution is not making us sick and anxious, it is literally killing us. How do we turn it off?
Sick in the head
Jennifer Traig
I've diagnosed myself with heart attacks, blood poisoning, meningitis and multiple sclerosis. Turns out, what I had was hypochondria.
Gambling with science
Eliza Strickland
Determined to defeat lawsuits over addiction, the casino industry is funding research at a Harvard-affiliated lab.
The madwoman in the attic
Rachel Shukert
Is a recent Times story on "Mad Pride" activists a reminder of how our culture conflates "female" and "mental illness" -- or am I just crazy?
Brain scam
Robert Burton
Why is PBS airing Dr. Daniel Amen's self-produced infomercial for the prevention of Alzheimer's disease?
Old, fat, male … and bulimic?
Kate Harding
John Prescott's recent revelation reminds us that eating disorders aren't just a female thing.
The haunting of the Democrats
Andrew O'Hehir
The party is caught in an excruciating Catch-22. Whether it chooses the establishment figure or the liberal reformer, history offers many paths to defeat.
Can abortions lead to mental illness?
Carol Lloyd
The debate continues about the procedure's risk to a woman's sanity.
High-level right-wing discourse
Glenn Greenwald
Examining the ideas expressed in the last 24 hours from the right's most respectable venue of political thought.
What the Poling autism case means
Rahul Parikh
The widely publicized court victory for the family who claimed vaccines caused autism in their daughter does not prove a link.
My beautiful, drug-addicted boy
Katharine Mieszkowski
David Sheff recounts how he lost his son to meth and the long, agonizing struggle to get him back.
Conspiracy theory in the frozen North
Andrew Leonard
Flooded villages in Alaska, record grain harvests in Finland. Who's to blame? How 'bout Exxon?
Oscar, are you listening?
Salon Staff
Salon writers and special guests weigh in on their favorite performances and movies of the year -- and the ones they couldn't stand.
Is there such a thing as too much folic acid?
Catherine Price
Some scientists suggest that folic acid -- known for preventing birth defects -- may come with a downside.
Don’t be happy, worry
Jerome Weeks
Awash in antidepressants, America is manipulated by Big Pharma and numbed out to basic, and inevitable, human pain -- or so argue critics of our serotonin nation.
Everything you know about absinthe is wrong
Sarah Hepola
Banned for a century for inspiring madness and murder, absinthe is legal again. So pour yourself a glass and get to know the real Green Fairy.
The demons you know
Stephanie Losee
Bestselling author Iris Chang seemed to have everything -- including a bipolar disorder that led to her suicide. Author Paula Kamen discusses her friend's troubling story.
The man who lost his past
Robert Burton
The documentary film "Unknown White Male," about a New York stockbroker who loses his memory, is medically implausible. But it offers an important lesson about an overlooked illness.
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