What is mental illness?
One group of disorders that most clearly represent major mental illnesses are those like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. There are a variety of anxiety disorders and depression that are so severe that they seem to have an inherited component just like high blood pressure, diabetes or other medical illnesses. .

Mental Illness: No Stranger to Christianity
"Good Christians do not become mentally ill." These words still echo in my mind. I recall hearing them from the pulpit while on a weekend pass from a psychiatric hospital. You can guess what became the primary agenda for Monday's therapy session. It was just one of the many sessions held in conjunction with electroshock therapy as I climbed my way out of clinical depression.

Mentally Ill Offender Treatment and Crime Reduction Act Supported by United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
Speaking for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), Cardinal Theodore McCarrick expressed support for the Mentally Ill Offender Treatment and Crime Reduction Act of 2003. He said the legislation would be a good start towards ensuring that mentally ill offenders receive the treatment they need.

Chronic Mental Illness: A Congregational Challange
Across the centuries, people who showed serious symptoms of mental illness have been treated by society, including the medical profession and religious groups, in a variety of ways -- from kindness and honor to cruelty and murder.

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Serious Mental Illness
Serious Mental Illness is the term used for a group of disorders causing a severe disturbance in thinking, feeling and/or relating. The result is a substantially diminished capacity for coping with the ordinary demands of life.

Mental Health
No one is immune from mental illness. Any person - regardless of age, economic status, or race - can develop a mental illness. According to the American Psychiatric Association, during any one-year period, up to 50 million Americans (more than 22 percent) suffer from a clearly diagnosable mental disorder which interferes with employment, school attendance, or daily life.

Substance Abuse
The United States has tried to attack the problem of drug abuse head on in recent years. The 1997 Drug-Free Communities Act which helps build and strengthen 14,000 anti-drug coalitions, unites civic groups to form a Civic Alliance, and mobilizes communities has had a positive impact.

The Church and Serious Mental Illness
Laws of social responsibility and hospitality are clearly stated in the Old Testament and relate to those whose illnesses have made them strangers within our gates. Our Judaeo-Christian understanding sees that “God’s holy purpose is for humankind to be of worth and be well; to be in health and nurturing health for one another” ...

I May Be Mad, but I Am Not Stupid
From behind the iron-barred second floor window of a mental institution an inmate gazed at a black-suited motorist kicking his car in disgust. The left front tire had flown off after the car had hit a deep pothole. With the lug nuts lost in the roadside grass, the motorist helplessly pondered how he might reach the gas station five miles down the country road.

A Mind One Day Made New
My brother Ron has been suffering from schizophrenia, the chronic, paranoid variety, since age 21. He's now 60 years old. Ron is the middle son of George and Nellie Vandeman; I'm their youngest child and only daughter.

American Baptist Resolution on Mental Illness
According to the National Institute for Mental Health, today there are approximately thirty-five million persons who suffer the burdens of some form of mental illness. Twelve million are children. Ten million have chronic mental illness.

Mentally Ill Homeless
As the economy falters, the number of Americans who are living on the streets is on the increase. What is even more alarming is the number of homeless who are mentally ill, who have slipped through the cracks. The problem, we are told, began in the '70s when people with mental illness were transferred from hospitals to community care.