An overwhelming majority of people in the United States think the country is experiencing a mental health crisis, according to a new survey from CNN in partnership with the Kaiser Family Foundation.

While working in the West Wing under President George W.Bush, then US Surgeon General Dr. Richard Carmona got a terrible telephone call from his daughter. After he had been missing, she found ...

Millions experiencing mental illness in the US. According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, approximately 1 in 5 adults in the U.S. experience mental illness, defined as a condition that ...

Rep. Lou Correa reintroduces the Increasing Mental Access to Students Act to print lifeline resources on college IDs.

On a special episode (first released on July 10, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: Climate psychologist Caroline Hickman talks ...

A 2022 study published in the Annals of Medicine and Surgery, titled “Sudan's unmet mental health needs: A call for action,” sounded the alarm on the nation’s behavioral health burden.

Decades of leaded gasoline exposure in the United States linked to mental health conditions such as depression, anxiety, ADHD and neurotic behavior.

Why is there a new phone number? In 2005, the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration launched the first suicide prevention hotline, 1-800-273-8255.

A version of this article appears in print on , Page 18 of the Sunday Magazine with the headline: The mental-health crisis among American children is real — but the pandemic is not the only reason..

The United States is suffering from a mental health crisis. Millions of Americans have disorders such as depression, anxiety, and trauma, yet timely and affordable treatment continues to be ...

They used that data to estimate the mental health effects of such exposures. Researchers linked the lead exposure to an estimated 151 million "excess mental disorders" in the United States over ...