The term “mental health” is a euphemism, and euphemisms are what we use when we want to obscure something. This language — in contrast to “mental illness” — encourages us to focus on ...

Unfortunately, he experienced acute mental illness. I suppose as a direct consequence of that, my view on mental health is that it’s not as abstract as people sometimes make it sound.

The first, published in 1999 by President Bill Clinton’s surgeon general Dr. David Satcher, called for a better medical system that would treat both physical and mental health, and end the ...

A detail, resembling a horse's head, in Jackson Pollock's Mural, at the J. Paul Getty Museum in 2014. Photo by Jay L. Clendenin/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images.