New technology alerts schools when students type words related to suicide. But do the timely interventions balance out the false alarms?
Category: Mental Health and Disorders
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Acadia Healthcare’s Methadone Clinics Face Fraud Complaints
Acadia Healthcare falsifies records at its methadone clinics and enrolls patients who aren’t addicted to opioids, a Times investigation found.
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In-Air Emergencies Can Cause Lasting Trauma
Extreme turbulence, a blown-out door, an engine on fire: For passengers and crew members who have experienced in-air emergencies, the pain endures.
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Librarians Struggle With Mental Health After Traumatic Events at Work
As libraries become public stages for social problems — homelessness, drug use, mental health — the people who work there are burning out.
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What Happens When Artists Start Going to Therapy?
In a number of exhibitions on view this year, people are pushing back on the cliché of suffering being essential to art, embracing recovery and wellness instead.
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Therapy Notes Are Accessible to Patients. Is That a Good Thing?
Health care systems have been putting therapists’ progress reports online, much to the surprise (and anger) of some patients.
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How to Make Therapy More Affordable
Many Americans who need therapy are discouraged by the cost. But there are options to make it more affordable.
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‘The Interview’: Demi Moore Is Done With the Male Gaze
The actress discusses how her relationship to her body and fame has changed after decades in the public eye.
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Exposing a Hospital Chain’s Disturbing Practices
Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Katie Thomas spent months looking into a psychiatric hospital chain that held some people against their will for financial reasons, not medical ones.
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How a Leading Chain of Psychiatric Hospitals Traps Patients
Acadia Healthcare is holding people against their will to maximize insurance payouts, a Times investigation found.
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On Relationships, a Reporter Connects With Readers
How do I repair my marriage? How can I strengthen my friendships? Catherine Pearson, a writer on the Well desk, helps readers find answers to these questions and more.