Schizophrenia, borderline personality disorder, bipolar. All words that make most people uncomfortable due to a lack of information, misinformation and stigma around mental health. But one nurse has ...

“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 ...

“Oh, there’s no place like home for the holidays,” I croon, strumming a borrowed guitar. I’m attempting to be quiet enough to not overshadow others’ conversations while still setting a merry vibe ...

Tracking patients and workers within a hospital’s psychiatric ward is not only doable—it’s being done. Austria’s University Hospital, in Innsbruck, has installed two RFID-based alarm systems to ...

Must the city and county, as MMC’s landlords, sue Memorial Medical Center to make MMC keep its written promises? MMC’s 5 th floor psych ward is an essential community resource. Many citizens need ...