stigma

July is National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month, a time to raise awareness about the challenges ethnic and racial minorities face when it comes to mental health care. The Food and Drug Administration says barriers include a lack of health insurance and less access to treatment. Lisa Pion-Berlin, president and CEO...

Mental health is one of those issues that many of us prefer to keep quiet or sweep under the rug. But the reality cannot be kept quiet: almost one in five adults in the United States lives with a mental illness. We are talking about 52.9 million grandparents, parents,...