mental illness

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Many wished for strength to combat physical or mental illness.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

The result can be heard in songs like the hard-driving “Is It Real?” in which Hollywell roars about mental illness and divine intervention, while Santos coats it all in steel honey.

From Salon • Jun. 5, 2026

Its hero, Wilbur Budd, is grappling not with mental illness, as Nora was, but with grief and missed opportunities.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 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

For over a century, institutional care for Americans suffering from serious mental illness shifted between prisons and hospitals set up to manage people with mental illness.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson