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Mental Illness in India

Even today, people still have a lot of stereotypes about mental illness, and one of them is that it’s a “First World” problem, meaning that people in poorer places don’t have time for mental illness.  But studies consistently find that rates of severe mental illness are pretty constant across economic, religious, cultural and geographic boundaries.  Here are some stories from …

Ten Times More People With Serious Mental Illness in Jails Than Hospitals

  Quoted in its entirety from American Psychiatric Press’s News Updates – Ten times more individuals with serious mental illness are residing in state prisons and county jails +today than in the nation’s state psychiatric hospitals, according to a new study released +today by the Treatment Advocacy Center (TAC). “The Treatment of Persons with Mental Illness in Prisons and Jails: A State Survey” found …