Showing results for: mental illness (page 66)
Guantanamo death was suicide, US finds
Associated Press
Adnan Latif took an overdose of psychiatric medication in September, Defense Department confirms
Growing up in Gaza
Erin Cunningham
Studies show that the vast majority of the Strip's 1 million children suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder
David Foster Wallace: Defining voice of depression?
Laurie Winer
Since the days of Sophocles, writers have been searching for a language for melancholy. Foster Wallace found it
Andrew Solomon: “The conditions I’ve written about have been brutally stigmatized”
David Daley
Andrew Solomon tells Salon how parents of extraordinary children find joy in difference, and strength in themselves
“The $60,000 Dog”: Animal attraction
Laura Miller
A master memoirist on the human-beast connection, from pampered pets and hated pests to girls and their horses
“Silver Linings” is gold
Andrew O'Hehir
Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence face love and mental illness in the rich, manic new romantic comedy
Major hurdles remain to end veteran homelessness
Julie Watson
The Obama Administration has promised to eliminate veteran homelessness by 2015
I love my dog as much as my child
Lauren Slater
We are not allowed to say this, but sometimes it is true. We connect with animals as deeply as our own offspring
Gabrielle Gifford’s shooter to be sentenced Thursday
Jacques Billeaud
Jared Lee Loughner shot the congresswoman and 12 others, killing six
I want candy
Laura Barcella
Experts say that sugar affects brain chemistry and contributes to alcoholism and depression. It's also my addiction
George McGovern dies at age 90
Kristi Eaton, Walter R. Mears
He was a life-long liberal who tried to unseat Nixon, "the most corrupt president in history"
“American Horror Story”: “Mental illness is the fashionable word for sin”
Willa Paskin
The haunted house is now an insane asylum: You're in Jessica Lange's Nurse Ratched–nun's hands now
Caitlin Moran: Women have won nothing
Lorraine Berry
Caitlin Moran, the controversial U.K. feminist, defends Lena Dunham and takes Hanna Rosin to task
Is “American Horror Story” the future of TV?
Phillip Maciak
Eschewing more conventional season-long story arcs, the show offers a uniquely anarchic brand of entertainment
Why education reform may be doomed
Richard Rothstein
Former school chancellor Joel Klein's dishonest new book reflects the corruption endemic in our school system
US Supreme Court refuses to block Texas execution
Michael Graczyk
A Texas man lost a last-minute appeal that argued he was mentally ill
“Homeland”: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Brody
Sean Higgins
It's easy to compare the series to thrillers like "24," but it's more beholden to the gothic horror stories of yore
Help! How do I stop smoking pot?
Maia Szalavitz
Turns out the answer is complicated. An expert explains
One in four New York prisoners put in solitary
Natasha Lennard
A new NYCLU report details widespread use and harmful effects of extreme isolation in state prisons
“Workaholism” is real
Chris Wright
Many view it as a virtue, or even a joke, but a spate of recent studies suggest it should be taken seriously
Thirteen and locked up for life?
Scott Michels
States are applying punishments to juveniles normally reserved for adult sex offenders -- with grave consequences
Big Pharma’s newest invention: Adult ADHD
Martha Rosenberg, Evelyn Pringle
Who belongs to this untapped market? You do, of course
A transgender child’s victory
Mary Elizabeth Williams
A third-grader in New Hampshire scores one for LGBT equality in the elementary-school bathroom
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