mental illness

Mindy Greiling thought she knew quite a bit about mental illness.After all, she'd minored in psychology both as an undergrad and in grad school.But that…

Writer, radio personality, podcaster and guy-with-depression John Moe talks about finding what works for you in addition to meds and therapy (dogs, being…

"They say 'thank you' a lot," says photographer Barb Kellogg.The creator of the If You Only Knew art exhibit (formerly titled What Mental Illness Feels…

It's comfortable to believe that people who are homeless are somehow "other" than we are. At best, they're people with problems we don't have. At worst,…

A man who said he was suicidal and had a gun drew an armed response from police New Year's Day, the same day a man who had refused help from homeless…

It was not the start to the new year anyone wanted: a 911 call from someone saying a friend was armed and suicidal and prowling the UMD campus.But within…

Every day, 105 Americans take their own lives, according to the Centers for Disease Control.And while spending a beautiful summer morning enjoying a 5k…

The Pinnow family broke some new ground when they wrote their daughter's obituary almost two years ago. "Aletha Meyer Pinnow, 31, of Duluth, died from…

Even after an entire semester in Jacki Buffington-Vollum's class on mental illness and crime, many students refuse to believe that anyone could commit…

Are we substituting jails for insane asylums in America?Jackie Buffington-Vollum is a UMD Sociology professor who says a conservative estimate of the rate…