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Stanford University students who attempt or consider suicide have been banned from campus, ousted from university housing, and ordered to pay hundreds of dollars for getting kicked out, according to a new lawsuit filed by three students and a mental health group.
In 2011, Rocky and Keith Schwartz's two teenage sons both started exhibiting symptoms of mental illness and substance abuse.
Seven years and many ordeals later, the Lebanon, N.J., family has spent more than $300,000 out of pocket for their sons' treatment due to coverage denials, first by UnitedHealthcare and later by Cigna, their insurers through Keith's job. They filed six appeals, losing every time.
MAY 20th will mark the end of "mental-health awareness week", a campaign run by the Mental Health Foundation, a British charity. Roughly a quarter of British adults have been diagnosed at some point with a psychiatric disorder, costing the economy an estimated 4.5% of GDP per year. Such illnesses have many causes, but a growing body of research demonstrates that in young people they are linked with heavy consumption of social media.
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Individuals with anorexia, binge eating disorder and bulimia often feel anxious and overwhelmed when surrounded by food. This anxiety can make grocery shopping and cooking a challenge.
A new form of telemedicine in which people can video-chat with a nutritional counselor while at the supermarket aims to help.
"Your son needs to be in the hospital, but we don't have any open beds," I tell the patient's family in the hallway. It's another busy night in the emergency department, and I'm the on-call psychiatrist.
African American children are taking their lives at roughly twice the rate of their white counterparts, according to a new study that shows a widening gap between the two groups.
Parenting styles and a parent's mental health problems, particularly depression, play a role in a child's ability to keep friends in elementary school, suggests a recent study in Finland.
With data on 1,523 Finnish children and their parents, researchers compared mothers' and fathers' parenting styles and depressive symptoms to predict how long friendships formed in the first grade would last, and how quickly friends would fall away.
The surge in U.S. kids taking medication for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is having an unintended side effect, a new study suggests: more children and teens are overdosing on these drugs.
In interesting footnote to the recent NBA playoff matchup between the Toronto Raptors and the Cleveland Cavaliers was that the series featured two players who have unintentionally emerged as mental health ambassadors for the league.