MENTAL ILLNESS
DAVID BROOKS: Shooting’s real issue: Untreated mental illness 
If the evidence continues as it has, the obvious questions are these: How can we more aggressively treat mentally ill people who are becoming increasingly disruptive?
By David Brooks , January 12, 2011
Guilty of mental illness
An 18-year-old schizophrenic man pounds on the thick security glass of his single-man cell. A woman lets out a long, guttural scream to nobody in particular to turn off the lights.
By Merrill Balassone , December 11, 2010
AROUND MINNESOTA: Ex-cop arraigned in 3 shootings ... Man acquitted due to mental illness ... Students skew city poverty numbers ... more
A former Chisholm police officer accused of killing a man in a bar and wounding two others has been arraigned on homicide charges.
By Associated Press , October 03, 2010
If you go to Out of the Darkness Community Walk
September 19, 2010
Walk next Sunday in Fargo to raise awareness to suicide, mental illness
The annual Out of the Darkness Community Walk to raise awareness of suicide and mental illness will be held next Sunday at Fargo’s Lindenwood Park. A walk was held in Grand Forks this past Sunday.
By Wendy Reuer , September 19, 2010
Paul Cline, Tucson, Ariz., letter: Psychiatric patients enjoy limited privacy protection
If a patient assaults a staff member, it usually is not because the patient is incapable of understanding the consequences of these actions; it is because he or she chooses to do so.
By Paul Cline , August 01, 2010
Minnesota cuts 200 mental health care jobs
The Minnesota Department of Human Services plans to cut 200 full-time positions from a program that provides direct care for people with mental illness and will close mental health facilities in Cold Spring, Mankato and Eveleth. In Polk County, the social services agency is waiting for the ax to fall.
By Herald Staff and Wire Report , March 10, 2010
Church coalition tackles depression
Eight churches and counting in Eagan, Apple Valley, Burnsville, Prior Lake and Savage, Minn., have banded together to offer a series of speakers and support groups for people with depression and their family members and friends.
By Jessica Fleming , February 21, 2010
Loophole lets mentally ill Texas juveniles go free
A 16-year-old former juvenile detainee is accused of stabbing a high school teacher to death with a butcher knife. Another teen was convicted of killing a roofer during a 30-minute robbery spree.
Both were released by the Texas Youth Commission because the agency wasn’t equipped to treat their mental illnesses and had to let them go under the law.
By Danny Robbins , December 20, 2009
Dickinson shooting suspect to represent self
A Dickinson man charged in a shooting and burglary that ended with him being shot by a police officer is being allowed to represent himself.
By Associated Press , October 28, 2009
OCD national meeting draws past, present sufferers
Ashley Bystrom was terrified of germs. Jared Kant worried that his own thoughts could hurt other people. Both children overcame the paralyzing fears that came with their obsessive-compulsive disorder, success that they feel driven to share with others. That’s why neither would miss this weekend’s Obsessive Compulsive Foundation annual conference, an event where the personal connections and support are as important as the speakers and seminars.
By Nomaan Merchant , August 07, 2009
Decapitated baby's mother had psychosis diagnosis
Baby's father: 'I still lover her .... But she needs to be put to death for what she's done'Relatives of the Texas mother of a 3½-week-old boy found dismembered in his bedroom said she was diagnosed with schizophrenia and postpartum psychosis, and the father of the slain baby said he wants the woman executed.
By Associated Press , July 28, 2009
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