Mother's search for help exposes cracks in regional mental health care

Amid mental health care ‘bottleneck,’ a program helps Nebraskans with intense needs - Flatwater Free Press

Carey Hutchison laid on the floor, curled into a ball and sobbed.  “I’m trapped in hell,” she told her fiance. The then 26-year-old started hearing voices when she was a teenager. A yearslong carousel of doctors, therapists and psychiatric wards hadn’t silenced them. Instead, she leaned on self medication: Xanax and other drugs, which she stopped taking when she decided to get pregnant. Now her psychosis was stronger. She cried for herself and f…

Mother's search for help exposes cracks in regional mental health care

When her teenage son's mental health spiralled, a mother turned to the system for help — but it wasn't available when she needed it most.

Teechuktl Regional Coordinator | Ha-Shilth-Sa Newspaper

Teechuktl Regional Coordinator The Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council’s is seeking a Permanent, full-time Teechuktl (mental health) Regional Coordinator for the Central Region (service areas from Tofino with travel to Macoah, Hesqiaht, Opishat and Ahoushat). This position is responsible for coordinating mental health services to remote communities within the region.  Based out of Tofino, the Teechuktl Regional Coordinator will supervise Teechuktl sta…

Daughter’s Schizophrenia Inspired Pune Man To Help Draft India’s Mental Health Act

On 6 August 2021, the Moideen Badusha Mental Home in Erwadi village, Tamil Nadu, caught fire. The origins of the fire remain unknown, but 45 patients housed in the facility perished. This was because they had been chained to their beds — despite it being forbidden by law to do so by authorities — so the chances of escaping were minimal. Some, whose shackles were not as tight,t managed to escape — five were treated for severe burns, and some rema…