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In August, a Richmond man called 911 for assistance: his brother, Angel Montaño, was armed with a knife in the family home, threatening to kill members of his family. "My brother became aggressive. He has mental issues," Montaño's brother, whose name has been redacted, told the emergency dispatcher in an audio recording released by the Richmond Police Department.
A new psychiatric hospital in Greenville will begin serving patients in eastern North Carolina later this month. ECU Health Behavioral Health Hospital is a new 144-bed facility intended to provide inpatient and intensive outpatient psychiatric services to adults and children; it will open with a 24-bed unit designated for pediatric patients.
Mental health and substance abuse service providers are bracing for cuts as the new head of the state's mental health department moves to shore up the agency's budget. Multiple providers across the state said they've begun receiving contract cancellation notifications from the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services.
It was a Friday last November when Robert H. got the news: He would no longer be able to see his VA therapist. After nearly two decades as a Marine and military contractor in Iraq and Afghanistan, he had been working through PTSD with the same VA psychologist for 10 years after a suicide attempt.
ChatGPT-maker OpenAI said recently that it will introduce parental controls, a major change to the popular chatbot announced a week after the California family of a teen who died by suicide alleged in a lawsuit that ChatGPT encouraged their son to hide his intentions.
LSD reduced symptoms of anxiety in a midstage study published recently, paving the way for additional testing and possible medical approval of a psychedelic drug that has been banned in the U.S. for more than a half century. The results from drugmaker Mindmed tested several doses of LSD in patients with moderate-to-severe generalized anxiety disorder, with the benefits lasting as long as three months.
People with a psychiatric disorder are more likely to marry someone who has the same condition than to partner with someone who doesn't, according to a massive study suggesting that the pattern persists across cultures and generations.
Getting a smartphone before age 13 may drastically increase the risk of poor mental health later in life, according to data from more than 100,000 people. Early use is linked to suicidal thoughts, aggression, and detachment, largely driven by social media, cyberbullying, and lost sleep. Researchers urge urgent action to restrict access and protect young minds.
Nearly one third of adults with major depressive disorder fail to respond to at least two different antidepressant medications, and half of those treated for generalized anxiety disorder do not respond to first-line treatments. Numerous other mental health conditions also require that patients endure a lengthy period of treatment experimentation (Zhdanava, M., et al., The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, Vol. 82, No. 2, 2021; Ansara, E. D., Mental Health Clinician, Vol. 10, No. 6, 2020).
WHO today releases two major reports — the Mental Health Atlas 2024 and the World Mental Health Today — alongside updated suicide estimates, presenting the most comprehensive evidence yet on the urgent need to strengthen mental health services and prevention worldwide.
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