Mental Health

Mental illness in youth: a common struggle

2013-05-17 13:55:00

Go to a busy street in your community and count the next 25 adolescents who walk, bike, skateboard, stroll or saunter past. Odds are that two of those 25 kids (8.3% to be exact) would own up to having experienced 14 or more days in the last month that...

Veterans home-loan bond money going untapped

2013-05-14 18:41:00

SACRAMENTO — In the last century, Californians have said yes to every request for money to help veterans buy homes. Since 2000, they have signed off on $1.4 billion in bonds for that purpose. But most of that money remains untapped. In fact, the...

Tamerlan Tsarnaev: Not just any body

2013-05-17 00:00:00

If you don't believe in souls or an afterlife, then a corpse is just a body — potentially a teaching tool, a source of life-saving organs, but little more. In 1829, taking such thinking to the extreme, a radical British pamphleteer named Peter...

Sgt. John Russell: Wrenching testimony in penalty phase

2013-05-14 16:07:00

JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. — Lt. Col. Michael Jones was the last psychiatrist to see Sgt. John Russell before the sergeant returned to the Iraq mental health clinic with an M-16 rifle, killing two doctors and three other fellow servicemen. In...

Five killings at Camp Liberty in Iraq: Calculation or despair?

2013-05-11 20:21:00

JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, WASH. — The court-martial of Army Sgt. John Russell concluded Saturday with a military judge asked to decide whether the 14-year Army veteran was deluded by depression and despair as he shot five fellow service members in...

Jackson thought God was speaking to him, witness testifies

2013-05-08 22:47:00

The pop legend who once had cut a lean but muscular figure and obsessed about every detail of his performance was suddenly scarily gaunt, attending rehearsals in dance shoes with holes and telling people that God was speaking to him. Michael Jackson's...

With Michael Jackson, lurid details of power, perversion never end

2013-05-10 08:55:00

Is it possible for the Michael Jackson story to become more lurid, pathetic or extreme? You bet your sweet Jesus juice. Jackson’s mother and three children have sued Anschutz Entertainment Group, blaming the promoter of what was supposed to be...

L.A. County ordered to assume guardianship of elderly murder suspect

2013-05-09 14:26:00

Over the objections of Los Angeles County mental health officials, a judge on Thursday ordered an 86-year-old murder defendant to remain in the government's care and not be released to a family member. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Norman Shapiro...

Too young for solitary

2013-05-12 00:00:00

At probation camps and juvenile halls, where delinquent minors are often held, officials sometimes have no choice but to temporarily isolate disruptive juveniles for the safety of other youths and camp personnel. But as an hour turns into a day or more...

Judge refuses to free murder defendant, 86, from mental hospital

2013-05-09 19:41:00

Over the objections of Los Angeles County mental health officials, a judge Thursday ordered an 86-year-old murder defendant to remain in the government's care and not be released to a family member. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Norman Shapiro...

Army sergeant found guilty of premeditation in killing 5 servicemen

2013-05-13 10:15:00

JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. — Army Sgt. John Russell was found guilty Monday of the premeditated murder of five fellow servicemen in 2009 at a mental health clinic in Iraq, a charge that carries a mandatory sentence of life in prison. Families...

Another way on California's prisons

2013-05-07 17:04:00

Gov. Jerry Brown has made it clear how unhappy he is about having to produce a plan to reduce the inmate population of California's prisons by another 9,000. Under the 2011 realignment law, the state has already lowered the prisoner count by 43,000 by...

The DSM-5 is released at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Assn. The so-called bible of psychiatry has been a matter of heated debate among mental health professionals.

2013-05-18 18:33:35

Lakers forward Metta World Peace will partner with the Los Angeles County Department of Mental health for Mental Health Awareness Month.

2013-04-29 12:28:39

Map of the former Tinley Park Mental Health Center.

2013-04-23 13:57:37