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Mental illness: Not a ticket to safely getting out of police encounters
Public misconceptions about mental illness, violence, and the legal system are widespread and deep-seated. They often manifest in the aftermath of rampage violence, with commentators quick to emerge...
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Mental illness and the loss of patient privacy
People in the US are big on their privacy, quite reasonably — people should be able to enjoy privacy in their homes and persons, and this shouldn’t get violated for the convenience of others, society,...
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Why did New York yoke mental health and violence prevention together?
Mental health services are absolutely terrible in this country, a plain fact that I don’t think I need to tell you. Generally, people only talk about this issue in the wake of an act of mass violence,...
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Mental health and gun reform do not belong in the same sentence
There’s a familiar chain of events that happens every single time there’s a major act of gun violence, as people immediately assume the perpetrator was mentally ill, before the bullets have even hit...
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Mental health crisis teams work — does your city have one?
Mental health services in the United States are in an utter shambles. Constant cuts to services mean that many people can’t access continuity of care, can’t afford to adhere to treatment, including...
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Is streaming the best place for mentally ill characters?
If you haven’t been watching BoJack Horseman, you should be. There are three seasons of it on Netflix and it is sharp, funny, wry, and excellent — but it also cuts close to the bone on mental heath...
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Half crazy over the love of you: Madness, gender, and pop culture
In the United States, the National Alliance on Mental Illness estimates that roughly one in four people experiences symptoms of a mental health condition in any given year, often concurrent with other...
View ArticleMaking the law enforcement-mental health connection
Law enforcement encounters with mentally ill people sometimes go horribly wrong. The problems here begin long before the police ever show up.
View ArticleCriminalising disability, and Black youth
In conversations about the criminalisation of disability, we must acknowledge the racialisation of stigmatised impairments. The post Criminalising disability, and Black youth appeared first on this...
View ArticleWill we ever shake the manic pixie dream girl?
Why is the manic pixie dreamgirl such a mainstay in youth adult literature, and what does that say about our attitudes on mental health and young women? The post Will we ever shake the manic pixie...
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