I facilitate a local support group for people living with serious mental illness, and I have met a remarkable woman in this group named Krupa Bhandaru, who is currently in hospice. Krupa has shared ...

"I wouldn't let myself hope," the former U.S. Marine, who was detained in Russia for nearly three years before his April release, says in a new interview Trevor Reed, a former U.S. Marine who was ...

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What Is a Psych Ward? A psych ward, also called a psychiatric ward or unit, is where you go to get short-term or in-patient treatment for serious mental health issues. You’ll receive around-the-clock ...

Editor’s note: Yu Lei is a nurse at a tertiary psychiatric hospital in China’s eastern Jiangsu province with more than 10 years of experience. Her hospital receives patients with various mental health ...

“Are you a cutter?” the medical aide asked me, gearing to strap a blood pressure monitor around my upper arm to take my vitals at 11 o’clock one evening. I had entered the psychiatric unit, or as it ...

A first-time psych admission nearly always marks the beginning of a long-term struggle with mental illness Fully 95% of patients wind up needing more mental health services They either landed back in ...