mental illness
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All of the essays traffic, to one degree or another, in emotional pain, and some have at their core the grievous dislocations of mental illness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
"We already knew psilocybin could be helpful for treating mental illness," Carhart-Harris said.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 22, 2026
Remains were also taken from Polish Jews and Catholics, those with mental illness, political prisoners, Belgian resistance fighters and French and Polish soldiers.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
Many wished for strength to combat physical or mental illness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026
In the late nineteenth century, alarmed by the inhumane treatment of incarcerated people suffering from mental illness, Dorothea Dix and Reverend Louis Dwight led a successful campaign to get the mentally ill out of prison.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
