Mental Asylum

Ukrainian refugee Lana Lisetska has forgiven herself for "being saved" and is rebuilding her life thanks to a programme that tackles the often overlooked mental health struggles of people fleeing the war.

Javed Bhutto, a caregiver to mentally disabled adults, got home from work about 11 that morning with bags of groceries in his Toyota Corolla. After his overnight shift at a residential facility, he had stopped in a supermarket with a list from his wife. In the parking lot of the small condo complex where the couple lived, he stepped out of his car ...

The centre on Monday informed the Supreme Court that 17 people believed to be mentally ill, who were chained in a "dargah" in Uttar Pradesh, have been released.

Following the displeasure shown by the Supreme Court over the chaining of mentally-ill persons in a faith-based mental asylum in the , the district administration freed 22 persons today and handed them over to their family members

Chaining mentally ill people cannot be allowed, the Supreme Court said today while terming as "atrocious" and "inhuman" such conduct in a faith-based mental asylum in Uttar Pradesh.

Sidharth Sagar alleged that his parents gave him bipolar disorder medicines mixed in his food

The Supreme Court today asked the Centre to frame guidelines for rehabilitation of persons who have been cured of their mental illness, observing that the issue was "very sensitive". A bench headed by Chief Justice JS Khehar observed that after mentally ill persons are cured, not even their family members are willing to take them back home. "It is ...

The Supreme Court today said it will take a call on passing directions for improving the conditions of mental hospitals in the country and setting up more of them, only after a pending bill on the issue gets the parliament's nod.

"Sometimes I feel like the psycho in Sleeping with the Enemy," said Gwyneth Paltrow

Australia's human rights commissioner said Thursday the government must come clean about conditions at offshore asylum-seeker camps after an inquiry heard of an alleged cover-up of mental health problems.

Many of the 3,300 jails across the US have seen a rise in the number of inmates with serious mental illnesses, most arrested for non-violent crimes.

Mayawati is furious at arch rival Mulayam Singh Yadav's comments on her marital status and has suggested that he might need treatment at the "mental asylum in Agra."

Rumours can't be taken seriously or they would drive a person crazy, feels Kalki Koechlin.

Three people have been arrested for murder after the body of a mentally-ill woman was exhumed from a mental asylum's backyard in Dhaniakhali in West Bengal's Hooghly district, police said on Thursday.

A provincial civil services officer in Uttar Pradesh, who had launched a hunger strike in Lucknow on Monday, was allegedly whisked away by the police from his dharna site at midnight and taken to the psychiatric ward of a medical college in the city. Doctors there, however, refused to admit him. He was then sent off to his hometown Aligarh.

Ukrainian refugee Lana Lisetska has forgiven herself for "being saved" and is rebuilding her life thanks to a programme that tackles the often overlooked mental health struggles of people fleeing the war.

Javed Bhutto, a caregiver to mentally disabled adults, got home from work about 11 that morning with bags of groceries in his Toyota Corolla. After his overnight shift at a residential facility, he had stopped in a supermarket with a list from his wife. In the parking lot of the small condo complex where the couple lived, he stepped out of his car ...

The centre on Monday informed the Supreme Court that 17 people believed to be mentally ill, who were chained in a "dargah" in Uttar Pradesh, have been released.

Following the displeasure shown by the Supreme Court over the chaining of mentally-ill persons in a faith-based mental asylum in the , the district administration freed 22 persons today and handed them over to their family members

Chaining mentally ill people cannot be allowed, the Supreme Court said today while terming as "atrocious" and "inhuman" such conduct in a faith-based mental asylum in Uttar Pradesh.

Sidharth Sagar alleged that his parents gave him bipolar disorder medicines mixed in his food

The Supreme Court today asked the Centre to frame guidelines for rehabilitation of persons who have been cured of their mental illness, observing that the issue was "very sensitive". A bench headed by Chief Justice JS Khehar observed that after mentally ill persons are cured, not even their family members are willing to take them back home. "It is ...

The Supreme Court today said it will take a call on passing directions for improving the conditions of mental hospitals in the country and setting up more of them, only after a pending bill on the issue gets the parliament's nod.

"Sometimes I feel like the psycho in Sleeping with the Enemy," said Gwyneth Paltrow

Australia's human rights commissioner said Thursday the government must come clean about conditions at offshore asylum-seeker camps after an inquiry heard of an alleged cover-up of mental health problems.

Many of the 3,300 jails across the US have seen a rise in the number of inmates with serious mental illnesses, most arrested for non-violent crimes.

Mayawati is furious at arch rival Mulayam Singh Yadav's comments on her marital status and has suggested that he might need treatment at the "mental asylum in Agra."

Rumours can't be taken seriously or they would drive a person crazy, feels Kalki Koechlin.

Three people have been arrested for murder after the body of a mentally-ill woman was exhumed from a mental asylum's backyard in Dhaniakhali in West Bengal's Hooghly district, police said on Thursday.

A provincial civil services officer in Uttar Pradesh, who had launched a hunger strike in Lucknow on Monday, was allegedly whisked away by the police from his dharna site at midnight and taken to the psychiatric ward of a medical college in the city. Doctors there, however, refused to admit him. He was then sent off to his hometown Aligarh.