English actor, screenwriter, author, playwright, journalist, poet, comedian, and film director Stephen Fry is the picture of success. And he is bipolar, something that was diagnosed until he was 37 and suffered a frightening brush with deep depression and suicidal feelings. Fry disappeared for a week and when he reappeared he sought treatment for his [...]

The words “inpatient rehabilitation” may sound intimidating, but for many patients, the experience turns out to be one of the best things to happen to them. Inpatient rehab may be ideal for young adults with mental health disorders requiring longer term care and who may also be present with a drug or alcohol addiction. The [...]

“So many people have begged me to come forward,” says mental health therapist Marsha M. Linehan of the University of Washington. “I owe it to them.” With that thought, Dr. Linehan, whose mental illness as young woman merited her the distinction of “one of the most disturbed patients in the hospital”, publically told her story [...]

Chief executive and board member of NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) Keris Myrick knows first-hand what it’s like to live with the challenging mental illness known as schizophrenia; she herself suffers from the condition. “I feel my brain is damaged; I don’t know any other way to say it,” Ms. Myrick says. “I don’t know [...]