Nearly 7,800 New Yorkers were taken to hospitals against their will for psychiatric assessments in 2024, according to a new report from the Mayor’s Office of Community Mental Health. These trips were ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul is reiterating her efforts to make it easier to involuntarily commit and treat people with severe mental illness in the wake of a spate of violence in the subway. In a statement ...

In March or 2007, after subsisting for five years with untreated schizophrenia, which manifested as severe psychosis, delusions, homelessness, and incarceration, I was taken to a psychiatric hospital ...

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 comes to ...

State lawmakers introduced a bill that would expand the pool of providers who can make calls on involuntary hospitalization and court-ordered outpatient treatment in the wake of the fatal stabbing ...

After two recent high-profile murders, lawmakers are weighing changes to the state’s involuntary commitment policies. Here’s ...

Mental health disorders affect millions of Americans on a yearly basis, and the National Alliance on Mental Illness says 1 in 20 American adults experience serious mental illness each year. A ...

That awareness was reinforced when I was an involuntary patient, six months into a serious physical illness, Addison’s Disease, that was misdiagnosed by multiple doctors.

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