mental illness

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Homelessness can cause mental illness, and mental illness can cause addiction, and vice versa.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026

The just-quirky-girls-at-a-country-club mood does eventually turn darker, but the musical, like some other works of art about mental illness, often falls into the trap of romanticizing it.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

Likewise, at a time when homosexuality was charged as a crime and classified as a mental illness, plenty of men who loved men married women, and plenty of women who loved women married men.

From Salon • Jun. 3, 2026

Maddock and Smucny have long studied how brain chemistry is connected to mental illness using proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy, also known as 1H-MRS.

From Science Daily • May 16, 2026

My grandmother has custody of me and my sisters because my mother has a mental illness.

From "Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago" by LeAlan Jones