Showing results for: mental illness (page 82)
“I can give you condoms, but I’ll have to tell the cops”
Lynn Harris
Kansas trial: Must counselors report teen sex? (Including "fondling with intent to arouse"?)
“Fidelity is a personality trait”
Ayelet Waldman
In an excerpt from Ayelet Waldman's new novel, sparks fly between heroine Emilia Greenleaf and her older, married lover.
Just when I thought I was going to be fine, they say I’m bipolar
Cary Tennis
After all I've been through, how am I supposed to keep my chin up now?
I was conned by JT Leroy
Ayelet Waldman
I talked to him on the phone for hours. I even listened to his therapy sessions on tape. And after one particularly weird conversation about his upcoming sex-change operation, I decided he was a fake. So why did I still get sucked in?
I’m having symptoms of mental illness in grad school
Cary Tennis
People are looking at me funny -- should I reveal my diagnosis?
Losing their minds
Mark Benjamin
More U.S. soldiers than ever are sustaining serious brain injuries in Iraq. But a significant number of them are being misdiagnosed, forced to wait for treatment or even being called liars by the Army.
Best bedtime stories
Sarah Karnasiewicz
In time for the holiday shopping crunch, Salon recommends four fantastic kids books that will delight parents, too.
Incalculable pain
Mark Benjamin
The Pentagon is underreporting the number of American soldier casualties in Iraq, say House Democrats.
A new look at anorexia
Sarah Karnasiewicz
Doctors now believe the eating disorder is a product of nature, not nurture -- and has reach far beyond rich, white teens.
Best of Salon: 2005
Salon Staff
A photo gallery of Iraq's unseen war, a journey through the "ex-gay" Christian ministries, and Scientology's war on psychiatry.
A second chance for Andrea Yates
Katharine Mieszkowski
But is it mercy toward women with mental illness that has given her the possibility of avoiding prison?
Authors, authors!
Laura Miller
Robert Oxnam has suffered with multiple personality disorder for much of his adult life. Now his three personalities -- he once had 11 -- have written a strange and fascinating book.
“Pigtopia” by Kitty Fitzgerald
Andrew O'Hehir
A misshapen boy-man with a secret "Pig Palace" befriends a lonely teenage girl in this fantastic fable that never fully departs from the possible.
No school nurses left behind
Laurie Udesky
Once a comforting presence in most public schools, full-time nurses are increasingly scarce. Now teaching assistants, secretaries and other nonmedical personnel are trying to care for sick children -- with often tragic results.
The return of reefer madness
Maia Szalavitz
The U.S. drug czar's office is running ads implying that smoking marijuana can lead to insanity. But pushing dubious science is no way to persuade teenagers not to do drugs.
Letters
Salon Staff
Readers weigh in on the demise of Iraq's intellectual class. Plus: Has the U.S. government failed the Lost Boys of Sudan?
I left my heart in San Francisco
Cary Tennis
I feel it's time to return to the city I love, but family and practical matters hold me back.
Lost in America
Leigh Flayton
It was supposed to be a storybook tale of young refugees triumphing against all odds. But an alarming number of Sudan's "Lost Boys" have spiraled into alcohol abuse, crime and even fratricide. What went wrong?
Letters
Salon Staff
Readers debate pork-barrel politics and whether Cindy Sheehan is a flip-flopper. Plus: A veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder responds to Mark Benjamin's "Sticker Shock Over Shell Shock."
Sticker shock over shell shock
Mark Benjamin
The U.S. government is reviewing 72,000 cases in which veterans have been diagnosed with severe post-traumatic stress disorder, claiming that misdiagnosis and fraud have inflated the numbers. Outraged vets say the plan is a callous attempt to cut the costs of an increasingly expensive war.
My dad met a woman, and now he has abandoned me
Cary Tennis
How do I deal with the loss of a father who's not really gone but just changed?
The Fix
Salon Staff
Live 8 fallout over Madonna's language. Jolie denies pregnancy. Paula Jones jealous of Mary Kay LeTourneau.
Letters
Salon Staff
Readers criticize Scientology, question psychiatry and come to the defense of Kirstie Alley.
Scientology’s war on psychiatry
Katharine Mieszkowski
The controversial church, whose founder called shrinks "terrorists" and which labels mental illness a fraud, is closer than you think to implanting its extreme beliefs in the nation's laws and schools.
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