Apr 22, 2007 Apr 22, 2007Updated Jun 6, 2019 0 Amy Forsyth-Stephens Forsyth-Stephens is executive director of the Mental Health Association of the New River Valley Inc.

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Many more adult children of Gen X and boomer seem to be living with a mental illness. When an adult child is living with a mental illness, it presents unique challenges for parents.

A 2023 national survey found that more than 6 million adults with mental illness who wanted treatment in the past year were unable to receive it. Cost was one of the most common barriers.

America’s mental-health system is broken. For decades, policymakers have focused on people with mild or moderate conditions and ignored those with severe illnesses like schizophrenia and bipolar ...

New York is in the midst of both a mental health crisis and homelessness crisis, which is playing out in a very public fashion — on the streets, subways, and other public spaces. But when it ...

Rikers Island is a humanitarian crisis, especially for those with severe mental illness. Instead of offering care, the jail isolates, neglects, and dehumanizes people who need treatment — not ...

Mental illness put her in DuPage County Jail. 85 days later, she was dead. Cristal Moreno Aguilar at Augstana College, Oct. 8, 2024, in Rock Island.

Had those people with mental illness been diverted, Wilson said, it could have cleared the way for more training, more second chances, perhaps less recidivism.

A version of this article appears in print on Oct. 29, 2024, Section D, Page 6 of the New York edition with the headline: Linking Mental Illness and Risk of Severe Covid.