With the recent revelations that alleged movie-theater shooter James Holmes had been seeing a psychiatrist prior to carrying out the July 20 massacre in Aurora, Colo., questions about the link between violence and mental illness …
Mental Illness
Military Suicide: Help for Families Worried About Their Service Member
In this week’s TIME cover story, “One a Day” (available to subscribers here), journalists Mark Thompson and Nancy Gibbs explore why suicides among the U.S. military have reached crisis levels. Every day, one active-duty …
The Other Health Care Announcement: A Tool Kit for the World’s Mentally Ill
While the Supreme Court was making health care news in Washington, voting to uphold the Affordable Care Act on Thursday, a smaller gathering at the United Nations was discussing another, completely non-binding document that could …
Morgellons Mystery: No Medical Explanation for ‘Crawling Skin’ Disease
The symptoms of the bizarre illness known as Morgellons are enough to make your skin crawl. For patients who say they are suffering from the condition, that sensation is all too real.
Do Psychotic Delusions Have Meaning?
Do psychotic symptoms like hallucinations have meaning, or are they just the products of a broken brain that misfires neurons? For years, psychiatrists and psychologists have struggled with this issue, at times attempting to …
In the Lab and in the Real World, Progress in the Treatment of Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia, which affects about 1% of the population, is one of the most devastating mental illnesses and certainly one of the cruelest.
Borderline Personality Disorder: NFL Wide Receiver Talks Diagnosis and Recovery
Miami Dolphins wide receiver Brandon Marshall may be best known for a domestic altercation in April in which his wife allegedly stabbed him in self-defense. Over the weekend, the sixth-year player revealed why his life has been …
Bugs Crawling Under Your Skin? It’s All in Your Mind
Ever get that creepy-crawly sensation, like bugs are slithering beneath your skin? For some people, the feeling is permanent. They complain that their skin is infested by insects or parasites — a condition they call Morgellons …
Catherine Zeta-Jones Seeks Treatment for Bipolar 2 Disorder
The celebrity face of bipolar disorder has typically been, well, sort of crazy (think Britney Spears or, so it’s been speculated, Charlie Sheen). So when a publicist for Catherine Zeta-Jones — who has been stalwart in …
Psychiatrist Phillip Resnick on Why Parents Kill Their Own Kids
On Jan. 27, Julie Powers, 50, a mother of two in Tampa, drove her 13-year-old son, Beau, home from soccer practice and allegedly shot him in the head “for talking back” to her. Then she went upstairs and shot Calyx, her …
Jared Loughner: Fear-Mongering and the Mentally Ill
Jared Loughner’s alleged mental illness has been a central point of discussion as we try to understand how the shootings in Arizona could have happened. But TIME’s Massimo Calabresi cautions against drawing conclusions about the …
Psychiatric Mystery: Diagnosing Jared Loughner
It seems clear that Jared Loughner was developing a mental illness in the two years or so before the Tucson killings, but which one?
