mental illness

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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

By and large, experts point to systematic failures that leave Americans more vulnerable to mental illness and without access to drug-free interventions, which cost both time and money.

From Salon • May 18, 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

While it is legal in Canada, it is not currently available to those whose sole condition is mental illness.

From BBC • May 15, 2026

In the late nineteenth century, alarmed by the inhumane treatment of incarcerated people suffering from mental illness, Dorothea Dix and Reverend Louis Dwight led a successful campaign to get the mentally ill out of prison.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson