At parties, I used to explain to people who wanted to know what I do — I’m a psychiatrist — that caring for people with mental illness on a psych ward is like working in a place apart from the world.

“Are you a cutter?” the medical aide asked me, gearing to strap a blood pressure monitor around my upper arm to take my vitals at 11 o’clock one evening. I had entered the psychiatric unit, or as it ...

Ginger strikes a pose on the red carpet for a GOOD+ Foundation bash in NYC. Pic credit: ©ImageCollect.com/John Nacion/StarMaxWorldwide Ginger Zee is known as the ...

However, have you ever considered that the experience could be surprisingly human, awkward, emotional, funny, comforting, or actually strange? When people who’ve actually spent time in psychiatric ...

Society loves “rediscovering” authors; the act suggests something alluring about both our taste and the arc of justice. Recently, writers such as Lucia Berlin and Eve Babitz have been exhumed to ...

In almost every state in the country, the supply of inpatient psychiatric care is insufficient to meet the demand. In a 2006 survey, 34 state mental health authorities reported a shortage of beds for ...

Editor’s note: Yu Lei is a nurse at a tertiary psychiatric hospital in China’s eastern Jiangsu province with more than 10 years of experience. Her hospital receives patients with various mental health ...