The Latest Breaking News from Mental Health

Joanne Peacher has suffered a lifetime of mental health issues after being abused by two people who should have been caring for her at just eight years old. She is now desperate to get therapy to help her move on.

LOS ANGELES -- I go to the Strand at Hermosa Beach each week and take in the fresh air. Most weeks, I get there and the sun is setting, the sky is an orangish-purple-pink Creamsicle color and the clouds are fluffy. The predictability of this place calms me: the salty…

A request by an Adelaide prisoner with schizophrenia to move from a high-security jail to a mental health facility could have been a cry for help before he was released and killed an Adelaide mother, an inquest has heard.

Blake Anderson: “Our lives forever changed that morning. A piece of me, a piece of our family is gone, and it will never come back.”

The New York mayor did not disclose whether the woman was among the migrants who were taken to the city from southern border states in recent weeks as part of a controversial relocation program

Jigsaw recently released its annual report on young people's mental health

Researchers at Cambridge University found that children who played together from a very young age had better mental health four years later

(Part one of a four-part series) In recent years, evidence supporting the use of psychedelics for the treatment of unmet mental health disorders such as PTSD, depression, addictions and anxiety has done nothing but grow.

LOS ANGELES — "Jagged Little Pill" was never supposed to go down easy. The jukebox musical was intended to echo its namesake: Alanis Morissette's multi-Grammy-winning 1995 album, which launched her as a beacon of unapologetic honesty and unwavering conviction, especially when singing about tough subjects. So, likewise, the stage show…

Self-harm is any behaviour where an individual causes harm to themselves, usually as a way to help cope with difficult or distressing thoughts and feelings. It most frequently takes the form of cutting, burning or overdose.

A lawyer for the teenager charged over a crash at Buxton which claimed five lives seeks a second bail hearing at the "earliest possible date" due to concerns about her client's mental health, a court hears.