Colleges across the country are failing to keep up with a troubling spike in demand for mental health care — leaving students stuck on waiting lists for weeks, unable to get help. STAT surveyed dozens of universities about their mental health services.

We are pleased to announce that AIM for Mental Health has awarded Kate Fitzgerald, MD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at University of Michigan.

We ought to stop casually throwing around terms like “crazy” in our daily lives. They only serve to demean and undercut people. “Crazy” is never uttered with compassion. When that language is commonplace, it becomes that much harder for those experiencing mental illness to openly seek treatment that works.

This is Depression Awareness Week, so it must be hoped that during this seven-day period more people will become more aware of a condition that a minority experience, and which most others grasp only remotely – confusing it with more familiar feelings, such as unhappiness or misery.

In the wake of their own family tragedy, a Woodside mother and daughter work to help others impacted by mental illness.

Over 60 percent of chronically-homeless, and majority of inmates in state prisons and local jails in the U.S. have experienced mental health issues. To improve the health of our society, we must provide our people with knowledge and tools to strengthen their brain health as individuals.