The Latest Breaking News from Mental Health

Joan Bennett Kennedy, first wife of Senator Ted Kennedy and mental health advocate, dies peacefully at 89 in Boston after decades battling alcoholism.

Seasonal allergies – triggered by pollen – appear to make deaths by suicide more likely. Our findings, published in the Journal of Health Economics, show that minor physical health conditions like mild seasonal allergies, previously thought not to be an immediate trigger of suicide, are indeed a risk factor.

The case will likely decide the fate of laws in almost half of the states that restrict the practice.

The numbers underscore the toll of the country's youth mental health crisis.

An intruder broke into the Washington state Capitol and smashed a glass door, set fire to a rug and flag, knocked over busts of George Washington and Martin Luther King Jr. before he was taken into custody by state troopers

The pop icon has fans talking again with her latest dance video, in which she revealed a home accident.

Once synonymous with hippies and hallucinatory experiences, psychedelic drugs are now being explored for their medical potential. The stigma of that era resulted in research being suppressed by drug laws, yet with mental health treatments hitting limits, scientists have returned to this controversial corner of medicine.

After stadium tour success, the delusional broadcaster is back where he belongs: self-funding a series about the nation’s mental health. As comedy goes, it couldn’t be more pleasurable

Machine Gun Kelly believes that he is a "representative of the broken" as he has spoken candidly about his mental health struggles.