Schizophrenia, borderline personality disorder, bipolar. All words that make most people uncomfortable due to a lack of information, misinformation and stigma around mental health. But one nurse has ...

Virginia’s 2014 “bed of last resort” law requires state psychiatric hospitals to admit patients in a mental health crisis if private facilities will not take them in. Temporary detention orders, which ...

We connected quickly and were honest with each other about why we were there. When he rejected me, I realized I'd just been reaching out for a connection. Romantic comedies are always set in cinematic ...

You know those scenes in movies where the patient in the psych ward desperately insists that they're not crazy, but everyone just rolls their eyes at them and their seemingly outlandish claims? Well, ...

“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 ...

If isolated, patients with mental disorders may end up having higher levels of social impairment. This has led several hospitals in Spain to set up open-door departments that are more accessible. The ...

I’m sitting cross-legged, shoulders slumped, on my hospital bed wearing those god-awful-hospital-sanctioned cotton pants. I’m already depressed; this doesn’t help. At least they let me wear my own ...

“I didn’t think he was safe in that hallway, but I also didn’t see him actually being able to get out because he would have to walk past security,” said Ezra's mother.

In 2016, I was admitted to a psych ward, where I fell for another patient. We connected quickly and were honest with each other about why we were there. When he rejected me, I realized I'd just been ...