Tag: mental health

Between jail and the hospital, Savannah Shannon’s life is in limbo.

This week, I’ve compiled four pieces about the intersection of religion, mental illness, safe spaces and alternative caregiving.

Michael Hobbes | Longreads | March 2014 | 10 minutes (2,425 words)   Joe Guppy is a writer, actor and psychotherapist living in Seattle. Thirty-five years ago, he was 23 years old and a mental patient. He spent 10 weeks in a mental hospital and another 10 weeks in a halfway house after Atabrine, an […]

Mental health issues have lost much of their stigma on college campuses, as they have in the rest of the world. Today’s college students self-medicate just as much as they always did, but they also seek professional help in a much more public way than you might remember from your own school days. You’ll find […]