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The advent of artificial intelligence technology and chatbots can make the World Wide Web feel like the wild, wild West. One bill that aims to set some guardrails in that uncharted world advanced in the Senate recently.
The heads of Wisconsin's state agencies hope increased collaboration will make it easier for residents to access mental health support. The Governor's Interagency Council on Mental Health rececntly released a new statewide action plan, identifying both current efforts to improve state programs as well as future goals around increasing access to support.
Mesa County, Colorado, claims in a new lawsuit that the state Behavioral Health Administration shorted the county $1.3 million in grant funds that were supposed to pay for mental health services, including a co-responder program that paired clinicians with law enforcement.
Cuyahoga County, Ohio's mental health and addiction treatment network could be in for a major shakeup next year as funding cuts and a new commitment to a county crisis center force officials to rethink where millions of dollars will go.
On an early spring evening in Glendale, California, a 37-year-old woman is withdrawn and weak from refusing food and water for several days. Her mother calls for help. She tells a crisis counselor her daughter has been hearing voices, and has expressed needing to "kill" those voices. She will not go to a doctor.
A new federal initiative aims to curb "overprescribing" of psychiatric medications while emphasizing holistic care. "Today, we take clear and decisive action to confront our nation's mental health crisis by addressing the overuse of psychiatric medications — especially among children," U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said recently at a summit on mental health and overmedicalization.
Ty Wooten didn't realize the weight of answering his first 911 call — until more than a decade later. A woman had dialed 911 to report that her husband had shot himself in front of her and their 7-year-old son, on the family's living room couch. It was Wooten's first call as a dispatcher.
The Trevor Project, the leading suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization for LGBTQ+ young people, released The 2025 U.S. National Survey on the Mental Health of LGBTQ+ Young People, analyzing the experiences of more than 16,000 LGBTQ+ young people ages 13 to 24 across the United States.
A new study suggests depression may soon be detectable through a simple blood test — by tracking how certain immune cells age. Researchers found that accelerated aging in monocytes, a type of white blood cell, is closely tied to the emotional and cognitive symptoms of depression, like hopelessness and loss of pleasure, rather than physical symptoms such as fatigue.
A researcher from the University of Kansas has led a large-scale study of university undergraduates to better understand how psychological conditions such as depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, and eating disorders are connected. The investigation, appearing in the Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science, relied on the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP), an emerging alternative to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), the traditional guide for diagnosing and treating patients.
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