by Craig Nash | Mar 6, 2024 | Feature, Opinion
I was a teenager the first time I visited someone in a psychiatric hospital. As any teenager would, I assumed this would be a one-off occurrence. But, as fate would have it, I unwittingly became a skilled navigator of the complicated and tortuous mental health system...
by Michael Chancellor | Nov 29, 2022 | Opinion
Editor’s note: This article contains graphic imagery. Andre Thomas will be executed on April 5, 2023, in Texas, after the United States Supreme Court rejected a request to review his case. Called “one of the most mentally ill prisoners in Texas history,” his long...
by Starlette Thomas | Mar 28, 2022 | Opinion
All this talk of suffering. It’s all so depressing. But during the season of Lent, why wouldn’t it be? Perhaps, if we leaned into this feeling, we could offer more support to those who suffer with mental illness, the “oddballs” and the quiet geniuses. I’ve been...
by Michael Chancellor | Mar 8, 2021 | Opinion
The latest COVID-19 relief bill finally passed the U.S. Senate over the weekend. It will now go back to the House of Representatives for reconciliation and then to the president to sign. This relief bill will become law split pretty much along party lines. That...
by Monty Self | May 19, 2020 | Opinion
One in five Americans suffers from some form of mental illness, according to the National Institute for Mental Health. Even more are estimated to wrestle with short-term depression and anxiety. Most Americans assume their health insurance plan will cover therapy and...