Mental Health

Mental health experts say it's OK to not be merry this holiday season if you're struggling with loss. They encourage people to look for small moments of joy.

The Department of Health launches walking tours in four neighborhoods to collect data and residents' impressions.

Advocates say schools nationwide are misusing the practice in response to behaviors prompted by bullying or frustration over assignments. The hospital trips for psych evals, they say, often follow months of students' needs not being met.

The governors square off in a first-of-its-kind debate Thursday. Let's compare the political rivals’ health care positions, showing how their policies helped — or hinder— the health of their states’ residents.

Emilie Ashbes overcame her drug addiction and is now helping others do the same. The work of IDEA is especially critical in Miami-Dade, which has the nation’s highest HIV infection rate, with dirty syringes, in part, to blame.

Lawmakers, including Rep. Karen Gonzalez Pittman, R-Tampa, have filed proposals that would allow Medicaid beneficiaries with “serious mental illness” to avoid a practice known as step therapy in receiving medications.

A $10 million donation from Target's CEO helps make Cornell Family Behavioral Health Pavilion possible.

Medicare is expanding access to mental health counselors and marriage and family therapists come Jan. 1. But the belief that seniors who suffer from mental health problems should just grin and bear it remains a troubling barrier to care.

The NPR host has launched a new series called "Healing 2.0." Vedantam tells us why he's bringing us this series as we head into what is supposedly the happiest time of the year.

Court documents say the pilot who tried to cut the engines midflight told police he was struggling with mental health, was having a nervous breakdown and had taken psychedelic mushrooms two days beforehand.

Love lives in Fort Pierce and runs the Treasure Coast Fencing Club. She drives up the coast once a week to train in Melbourne.

Under the bill, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement would develop the training in conjunction with the Department of Elder Affairs.