Showing results for: mental illness (page 82)
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.
Stranger than fiction
Laura Miller
L. Ron Hubbard's "Dianetics" is a fantastically dull, terribly written, crackpot rant -- it's also the founding text of Scientology. So, what does it actually say?
The Fix
Salon Staff
Crowe's hotel outburst captured on videotape. Shrinks condemn Cruise. Plus: Eve's porn problem.
“I try to write songs and stuff”
Thomas Bartlett
The enigmatic Brian Wilson talks to Salon about emulating McCartney and Spector -- and writing music after "Smile."
Reefer madness: Is sanity breaking out?
Silja J.A. Talvi
Despite the Supreme Court's ruling against medical marijuana and a scary
proposed snitch law, America may finally be awakening from its
decades-long stupor about recreational drugs.
Would it kill you to smile?
Heather Havrilesky
The lost souls of HBO's "Six Feet Under" are back for a fifth and final season, as stubborn and repressed and sadly human as ever.
“Cinderella Man”
Stephanie Zacharek
Russell Crowe and Renee Zellweger get the talent knocked out of them by Ron Howard's heavy-handed approach to this boxing tear-jerker.
Mind games
Salon Staff
Depression, the persistence of memory, and the fallout of a political showdown -- TTers share their thoughts this week.
My brother retreated to a basement apartment with his dog
Cary Tennis
He's had some tough blows lately, but I'm concerned he's really losing it.
Ribavirin turned my husband into a psychotic monster
Cary Tennis
My husband's treatment for hepatitis C has changed him beyond recognition. Should I leave him?
Van Gogh on Prozac
Laura Miller
Treating depression doesn't quell our humanity and creativity but restores them, argues "Listening to Prozac" author Peter Kramer. So, please, let's stop making a virtue out of despair.
The Fix
Salon Staff
Chappelle mentally ill? Abdul's "distinguishing characteristic"? Culkin unmolested?
Death knell for the death penalty?
Alan Berlow
Texas legislators -- yes, Texas -- are on the verge of approving a law that could result in a decline in executions nationwide.
“Wasted Beauty” by Eric Bogosian
Hillary Frey
No one makes good decisions in this novel that follows the lives of a restless, but well-meaning, middle-aged doctor and a confused, drug-abusing fashion model.
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