Mental Health Advocacy

Lately, you may have noticed a lot of advertisements for various different medications. These advertisements are everywhere, on television, on the radio, and in the world's best selling magazines. A few have even popped up on the sides of busses and billboards alongside freeways. How do these kinds of advertisements affect ...

What would you do if someone told you that you had the suicide gene? What kind of impact would it have on your life? Would you go on living like you had been in the past? Or would you be constantly shadowed by the knowledge that you might be pre-destined to ...

Perhaps in a society where the latest trend is to throw drugs at a person every time they have a
problem, faith and prayer should be a welcome alternative to what is considered the
“norm”.

Lately, you may have noticed a lot of advertisements for various different medications. These advertisements are everywhere, on television, on the radio, and in the world's best selling magazines. A few have even popped up on the sides of busses and billboards alongside freeways. Is this new advertisement campaing helping or ...

Self mutilation is real. Very real. And it seems as though it is becoming a new trend,
especially among the youth of today’s world. But is it an actual psychiatric disorder?
Should it be classified as an illness and included in the "bible" of psychiatric disorders,
the Diagnostic Statistics Manual?

We’ve all heard the horror stories of people being terribly violated while
receiving treatment at a mental hospital. Physical abuse, sexual abuse, abuse so
horrible that patients die from it. Are these stories true? Are they myths, the
result of overactive imaginations? Or does the truth lie somewhere in between?

A horrifying story of the potential for abuse in mental facilities. Part One of a series on abuse, seclusion, and restraints among the world's mental facilities.

What do you know about involuntary confinement? Have you or someone you know ever been confined? Will you ever need to be confined? Read about this controversial topic here.

A recent study shows that doctors lie to insurance companies to obtain coverage for their patients. Do you think your doctor might be lying for you? Do you think this is ethical? Read more about this increasingly common practice here.

During the Great Depression of the 1930's, an orphanage in Tibet was converted to a psychiatric hospital for the sake of funding. What happened to over 3000 children who were living at the orphanage? And why did the Catholic Church advocate this?