News from NAMI

• New generation of Asian-American women are fighting to normalize mental health treatment
• Patient Advocates, Healthcare Groups sue Trump Administration to Preserve Insurance Protections
• Suicide prevention experts: What you say (and don't say) could save a person's life
• The Health 202: Patrick Kennedy shepherded a major mental-health bill into law. Ten years later, big barriers remain.
• Two measures would raise record-breaking $6 billion for affordable housing
• 8 Incredible Medical Breakthroughs That Could Transform Your Health
• Why some parents are worried about schools requiring ‘mental health’ disclosures
• Examining Trauma & Heroes in Crisis: Treatment in the Real World & SANCTUARY
• School Mental Health Disclosure Requirement Concerns Parents
• County Jails Struggle to Treat Mentally Ill Inmates
• Racism can Affect your Mental Health from as Early as Childhood
• Watchdog slams safeguards for foster kids on psych drugs
• California Mulls Guidelines for School Telemental Health Programs
• What Happens When an Algorithm Labels You as Mentally Ill?
• Charities Report 67% Growth in Giving to Suicide Prevention
• Criminal Justice Reform as Public Health Intervention
• Report: More Mental Health Services Would Make Schools Safer
• The NBA Needs to Stay out of Its Players’ Mental Health Records
• Tips for Traveling Safely When You Have a Serious Mental Illness
• Just Because Someone Wants a Cop to Shoot Him Dead Doesn’t Mean We Have to Comply
• Their dad killed himself on the farm where he was born. They hope his story will save others
• Dear Abby: How do you deal with having a mental disorder?
• Antianxiety drugs — often more deadly than opioids — are fueling the next drug crisis in U.S.
• The Insurance Industry’s Secret Fight Against Mental Health Equality
• Three ways to get people the mental-health care they need
• Crisis Counselors Reveal the 9 Things Everyone Needs to Know About Anxiety
• Understanding Stigma as a Mental Healthcare Barrier
• Jimmy Piersall, Whose Mental Illness Was Portrayed in 'Fear Strikes Out,' Dies at 87
• Why Mental Health Has Become Political
• Fox Sports Supports NAMI
• Veterans with mental-health injuries deserve Purple Hearts, too
• Wounded Troops Discharged For Misconduct Often Had PTSD Or T.B.I.
• NAMI works to remove stigma from mental illness
• Emergency department visits for mental health disorders are rising, but follow-up care lags behind
• Pre-existing conditions, high-risk pools and unicorn saddles
• 'Alarming' rise in children hospitalized with suicidal thoughts or actions
• The future of mental health care
• For Families of Teens at Suicide Risk, ‘13 Reasons’ Raises Concerns
• Raise the bar: Seek justice for those with mental illness
• Does the Death Penalty Target People Who Are Mentally Ill? We Checked
• A onetime golden boy lost to the grip of mental illness
• Climate change contributes to mental illness
• Doctor and Patient Advocates Sound Louder Warnings as Trump and GOP Push Obamacare Repeal
• 10 Silent Signs You Could Have Postpartum Depression
• The General Who Went to War On Suicide
• Mental Health Groups Say GOP Health Plan Will Devastate Millions
• “Big Things Have Small Beginnings”: New Campus Group Combats Mental Illness
• Patients more likely to refuse drug therapy than psychotherapy for mental health
• Chrissy Teigen Opens Up for the First Time About Her Postpartum Depression
• How Depression Has--and Hasn't--Become Normalized
• Health Care Outcomes in States Influenced by Coverage, Disparities
• Mental Illness, Untreated Behind Bars
• Depression top cause of disability, strikes young and old
• Why Mental Illness Can Fuel Physical Disease
• Medicaid: A vital lifeline for mental health care
• The Road To Recovery
• The ACA Debate: Move Forward, Not Back
• Depression may be our brain's way of telling us to stop and solve a problem
• High-dose B vitamins can effectively reduce schizophrenia symptoms, research finds
• Psychiatric drugs haven’t improved for decades. So researchers are scouring the brain for leads
• Mental illness advocate weighs in on gun regulation repeal
• We Put Our Lives on Hold for 7 Years to Get Our Schizophrenic Son the Help He Needed
• Dating & Mental Illness: 5 Ways to Deal
• Does more mental health treatment and less stigma produce better mental health?
• How Parents Can Identify Mental Health Problems in Their College Kids
• She foresaw disaster when her young son threw a computer at his teacher. How she helped him and other mentally ill kids.
• The potential red flags in Ft. Lauderdale shooting
• Carrie Fisher's Death: What We Now Know
• A Comprehensive Guide to the Best Mental Health Resources
• How the big biomedical bill advances U.S. mental health care
• Sweeping Health Measure, Backed by Obama, Passes Senate
• Measuring health to improve it: An introduction to the Blue Cross Blue Shield Health Index
• Senators, Military Specialists Say Army Report On Dismissed Soldiers Is Troubling
• There’s a Startling Increase in Major Depression Among Teens in the U.S.
• U.S. ‘Not There Yet’ on Mental Health Parity
• How Can I Afford Mental Health Care?
• A soldier battling PTSD reported that he wanted to hurt his commanders. They disciplined him.
• A surprising story about mental illness
• A surprising story about mental illness
• Opening Up About Mental Illness:
• A Cruel Trick on the Mentally Ill
• Halloween attractions use mental illness to scare us. Here’s why advocates say it must stop
• Should Dallas officers who survived ambush be required to undergo counseling?
• Commentary: Minority Mental Health Month highlights urgent need
• Mental Health Reform Bill Overwhelmingly Clears House of Representatives
• Passing a Landmark Mental Health Bill
• Families failed by a broken mental health care system often have no one to call but police.
• The streets' sickest, costliest: the mentally ill
• Pediatricians urged to screen for suicide risks among teens
• The Assault on Antidepressants
• Study: News Stories Often Link Violence With Mental Health Illness, Even Though People With Mental Health Illness Are Rarely Violent
• Why I decided to speak out about mental illness in front of over 6,000 people
• 12 Things Girls With Depression Wish Our Friends Knew
• Untangling Gun Violence from Mental Illness
• Seven advocacy groups call for Department of Justice investigation into death of mentally ill inmate
• On California's Death Row, Too Insane to Execute
• Schizophrenia, psychosis and paranoia. Are these California death row inmates too insane to execute?
• Report: Police Departments Need Mental Health Programs
• Mental Health Reform: The Senate Needs to Act
• Michelin, NAMI seek to change conversation about mental illness
• Family Rejection May More Than Triple Suicide Attempt Risk by Transgender Individuals
• McConnell, legislature can OK bills to improve mental-health care
• Is Mental Health Being Ignored in Presidential Politics?
• Commentary: Give hope to the mentally ill
• Denying Transgender People Bathroom Access Is Linked to Suicide
• From One Asian American to Others: These Are 5 Things You Need to Know About Mental Illness
• How to Recognize Mental Illness in Children and Teens
• For Police, A Playbook for Conflicts Involving Mental Illness
• U.S. Suicide Rate Surges to a 30-Year High
• Schizophrenia Stole My Brother. This Is How I Got Him Back.
• Panel Would Make Insurers Help Contain Rising Drug Costs
• Which of These Women Has a Mental Illness?
• Investing in treatment for depression and anxiety leads to fourfold return
• His mom publicly compared him to killer Adam Lanza. Now the teen is opening up about his bipolar disorder.
• Patty Duke's Greatest Role: Mental Health Pioneer
• 24 Real Ways to Help Someone Who's Feeling Suicidal
• Saving Amanda: One Family's Struggle to Deal with a Daughter's Mental Illness
• New Studies of the 'Natural History' of Schizophrenia Raise Hope for New Treatments
• National Alliance on Mental Illness creates new resource for students
• Bernie Sanders' Mental Health Joke About the GOP is No Laughing Matter
• Mental Health Patients to Bernie Sanders: Don’t Compare us to the GOP Candidates
• Doctors Often Fail to Treat Depression Like a Chronic Illness
• Are mass shootings contagious? Some scientists who study how viruses spread say yes.
• More than a third of people shot by L.A. police last year were mentally ill, LAPD report finds
• Mental Illness: Families Cut Out of Care
• Survey: Half of Community College Students Report Mental Health Problems
• How America's criminal justice system became the country's mental health system
• An Insurance Penalty From Postpartum Depression
• Where the 2016 Candidates Stand on Mental Health Issues
• Ensuring a Safe Hospital Environment
• ‘Nut job,’ ‘wacko,’ ‘basket case’: How Donald Trump’s put-downs may impact mental health stigma
• People Abuse the Word Schizophrenic on Twitter—and That’s Terrible
• Reducing Mental Health Risk for Kids in Military Families
• LGBQ Students Are Far More Likely to Report Feeling Overwhelmed and Depressed
• Senators debate details of mental health bills and again clash on gun control
• My dad killed himself when I was 13. He hid his depression. I won’t hide mine.
• 'Schizophrenia' does not exist, argues expert
• Scientists open the ‘black box’ of schizophrenia with dramatic genetic discovery
• Task Force: Doctors should screen all adults for depression
• Improving the Federal Response to Challenges in Mental Health Care in America
• Mental health legislative update: 2015 achievements acknowledged, 2016 ambitions outlined
• What Obama's Executive Action Means for Mental Health Funding
• U.S. police get little training to handle crises with mentally ill
• Neighbor worries that neighbor has mental illness
• Still in a Crib, Yet Being Given Antipsychotics
• Find the happy medium with a mentally ill family member
• Three years after Sandy Hook, more states cut mental health funding
• A New Study Raises Old Questions About Antidepressants and Autism
• Do prenatal antidepressants cause autism?
• A Game Changer for Mental Health
• Five Studies: Mental Health Courts Are Finding Their Footing
• States To Use Medicaid Money To House Homeless People
• Congress Won't Act On Guns, But It Might Help Mental Health
• Overhaul of mental health care system faces hurdles
• States Look for Help with Bilingual Mental Health
• Insane. Invisible. In danger. Florida Cut $100 million from its mental hospitals. Chaos followed.
• A Matter of Dignity: Alone and at risk in Minnesota's group homes
• Kirby: Fighting the manly mental health battle
• Why Everyone Is So Upset About This 'Modern Family' Episode
• Five Groups Join NAMI In Trying To Stop Disney/ABC From Airing Hurtful Modern Family Episode Tonight: Will Greed Trump Corporate Responsibility
• Mother Finds Solace, Strategies in Mental Health Support Group
• The Changing Vocabulary of Mental Illness
• 'Game-Changer' Study Says There's A Better Way To Treat Schizophrenia
• Stop the Madness: There's a miraculous new treatment for schizophrenia that could transform the way we treat mental illness
• Obamacare Mandated Better Mental Health-Care Coverage. It Hasn’t Happened.
• How Demi Lovato is Leading the Conversation on Mental Illness
• National Journal Webcast: Mental Health Care Reform
• John Oliver's HBO Riff on Mental Health Policy
• Man with schizophrenia takes you into his world with powerful self-portraits
• Mental Health on Campus: Making a Difference One Person at a Time
• Dorothea Dix Halloween costume removed from stores following complaints
• Suicide in Texas Jails
• How to Maximize Mental Health Coverage
• Congress can finally make a difference for mental-health reform
• Sleep: The Other Half of Bipolar Medication
• Carter Center Releases Journalism Guide for Reporting on Mental Health
• Psychiatrist Shortage Worsens Amid 'Mental Health Crisis'
• For Students With Mental Health Issues, Transition To College Is Complicated
• UVa Students Bring NAMI Chapter tro Grounds
• 100 Students Gather for Mental Health Awareness
• The Quieter Gun Death Toll
• Report calls for research on how SSI funds are granted
• The prescription for depressed teens who can't get help is more than a shrug
• Brandon Marshall interview: athletes struggle to identify with mental illness
• What Does Your 2016 Presidential Candidate Say About Mental Health?
• Across much of US, a serious shortage of psychiatrists
• Doctors urged to screen teens for major depression
• Omaha college club offers support for mental illness
• Michael Dukakis’ Final Campaign
• Bipolar Disorder Is Like Having Two Serious Illnesses at Once