Mental Illness

The Florida Department of Health in Lee County is offering monthly mental health first aid trainings for the rest of 2025. Sessions will teach participants to recognize warning signs that someone is in a mental health crisis or struggling with substance abuse, provide support in crisis and non-crisis situations and connect others with mental health resources.

A conversation with Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Psychiatrist Dr. Ray DePaulo, M.D., ahead of his recent talk through the FGCU Provost Lecture Series and the Naples Discussion Group titled, “Depression: The Invisible Pandemic.”

A statewide phone line is helping thousands of people each year cope with their stress, anxiety and negative feelings.

Right now, concerns over the spread of the coronavirus are dominating the news. But in recent years, lawmakers in Florida — and nationwide — have...

NAMI, or the National Alliance on Mental Illness, is the nation’s largest mental health organization dedicated to building better lives for the millions…

The Miami-Dade County Police Department has created a new unit tasked with preventing people with serious mental illnesses from reaching a crisis point...

When Florida lawmakers approved a last-minute budget in special session earlier this year, $20.4 million in federal funding for mental health services…

Mental health care ranks among the most expensive kinds of health care in American medicine—and having a mental illness or behavioral disorder can drive...

Florida ranks 49th in the nation in per capita funding for mental health services. According to U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services surveys taken…

Suicide was the tenth leading cause of death in the U.S. for all ages in 2010 according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention with an average…