Students get a rare opportunity to ask questions about mental illness that are too often surrounded by silence. Topics covered in the presentations include:Signs and symptoms of mental illness.Statistics on how mental illness affects youth.Personal perspectives on the experience of living with mental ...
Despite the alarming number of people affected with a mental illness, statistics show that only one-third of these individuals seek treatment. According to Dr. Thomas Insel, Director of the NIMH (USA), psychiatry is the only part of medicine where there is actually greater stigma for receiving ...
Focuses on the involuntary-commitment laws voiced by the Treatment Advocacy Center (TAC), an organization created by the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI), for persons with serious mental illness who refuse treatment in the United States. Reason for the creation of TAC; Statistics on...