Leonie Helm is a Newsweek Life Reporter and is based in London, UK. Her focus is reporting on all things life, from abolishing the monarchy to travel to aesthetic medicine. Leonie joined Newsweek in ...

“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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

MILFORD, Michigan (WXYZ) — A local couple says they sent their son to a crisis center for help. But then they say he was transferred to a psychiatric hospital ...

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 ...

A cast of people who look like they have lived some life. Looking to cast people that we wouldn’t imagine in a psych ward because in reality, people go thru shit and need help when they need it. All ...

A spokesman for the VA Medical Center in Omaha confirmed Friday that a federal agency will investigate allegations of sexual contact between hospital staffers and psychiatric-ward patients. “We don't ...

Fences extend from floor to ceiling to prevent people from jumping and injuring themselves in this part of Idaho Maximum Security Institution's C Block, where civil commitment patients are held, near ...