Mental Health

Mental Health & Demographic Factors

• How Depressed is Your State (CBS News)

• Most Men Don’t Realize They’re Depressed (Men's Journal)
• Same-Sex Marriage Laws Tied to Fewer Teen Suicides (Reuters)
• Impoverished Black Teens Talk About Depression Differently (Gizmodo)
• Why does a report on 'gender equity' in mental health all but ignore the illnesses of men and boys? (National Post)
• More Americans suffering from stress, anxiety and depression, study finds (CBS News)
• Constant police violence takes massive toll on black Americans’ mental health (Think Progress)
• Generation at risk: America’s youngest facing mental health crisis (NBC News)
• Biology is partly to blame for high rates of mental illness in women – the rest is social (The Conversation)

Mental Health & Society

• The mental health crisis among America’s youth is real – and staggering (The Conversation)
• Depression and Suicide Rates Are Rising Sharply in Young Americans (Time)
• Americans are more anxious than before (The Conversation)
• Hiding my mental illness from my Asian family almost killed me (Vox)
• We are experiencing a work revolution – and it’s making us mentally ill (The Guardian)
• How America’s McMansion obsession is subtly wrecking our mental health (Moneyish)
• The CDC just announced 1 in 59 children are autistic. Here’s why that’s not evidence of an epidemic. (Vox)

Mental Health & Global Trends

• Half of all global mental illness begins by the age of 14 (World Economic Forum)

Mental Health & Social Environment

• Depression: men far more at risk than women in deprived areas (The Conversation)

• Chronic pain treatment: Psychotherapy, not opioids, has been proven to work (Vox)
• A Depressing Work of Staggering Illness (OZY)

Mental Health & Resiliency

• Artist Channels Her Anxiety And Depression Into Hilarious Comics (The Huffington Post)
• The People with Schizophrenia Embracing the Voices They Hear (Vice)

Social Construction of Mental Disorders

• The Big Lie of Psychiatry (Psychology Today)

• The subtle ways that language shapes our ideas of self (Quartz)

• Anxiety and Depression Are Symptoms, Not Diseases (Psychology Today)
• This secret experiment tricked psychiatrists into diagnosing sane people as having schizophrenia (Denver Post)
• Is mental illness real? You asked Google – here’s the answer (The Guardian)
• Psychics Who Hear Voices Could Be On to Something (The Atlantic)
• How Many Americans View Transgenderism As A Mental Illness? (The Daily Wire)
• Is ADHD Real? (Psychology Today)
• We Have Turned Childhood Into A Mental Disorder (The Daily Wire)
• What Really Causes Anxiety and Depression: “Chemical Imbalance” Theory Debunked (Core Science)

Mental Disorders Classification

• Sex addictions are deeply misunderstood. A new classification could change that. (USA Today)
• WHO Downgrades Transgenderism, No Longer Considered a Mental Health Disorder (The Western Journal)
• Compulsive video-game playing now new mental health problem (Medical Xpress)
• Video game addiction will become a recognized mental health disorder (Quartz)
• We need to rethink how we classify mental illness (The Guardian)

Mental Disorders and Technology

• Have Smart Phones Destroyed a Generation? (The Atlantic)

Depression

• Study Shows That Racial Discrimination Is Increasing Depression Among Black Youth (Madamenoire)

• Woman Explains A Lesser Known Symptom Of Depression And People Are Thanking Her (Bored Panda)

• Chemical imbalances don’t cause depression — society does (New York Post)
• 30 years after Prozac arrived, we still buy the lie that chemical imbalances cause depression (Quartz)
  
• Unequal Depression for Equal Work? How the wage gap explains gendered disparities in mood disorders (National Institute of Health)
  

Eating Disorders

• The Most Common Eating Disorder (BuzzFeed)
• A generation of shrinking girls (New Statesman)

Internet Addiction

• Inside the rehab saving young men from their internet addiction (The Guardian)

Stigmatization, Culture & Mental Disorders

• Sad culture normalizes mental illness. But does it also glamorize it? (Mic)

• A Massive New Study Puts a Pin in One of the Oldest Myths About Mental Illness (Pacific Standard)
• Is there a link between mass shootings and mental illness? (BBC)
• 9 Phrases That Spread Mental Health Stigma & What You Can Say Instead (Bustle)

Counseling  Therapy

• Cradled by therapy (Aeon)

Mental Disorder Resources

• How to help a friend who’s withdrawing from social contact (Metro)
• Can An Online Game Help You Learn To Help Struggling Friends? (NPR)