Morning Briefing
Summaries of health policy coverage from major news organizations
Successful Workers Who Have Mental Health Conditions Offer Advice To Other Employees
The Wall Street Journal: An Advocacy Group For Discussing Mental Health At Work
Still, mental and emotional issues carry a stigma. Deciding whether to tell managers and co-workers can be extremely difficult. So can simply getting through the day, which is why Stability Network members are also encouraged to share how they thrive despite their sometimes debilitating afflictions. (Beck, 8/3)
The New York Times: Solitary Confinement: Punished For Life
Dr. Haney’s interviews offer the first systematic look at inmates isolated from normal human contact for much of their adult lives and the profound losses that such confinement appears to produce. The interviews, conducted over the last two years as part of a lawsuit over prolonged solitary confinement at Pelican Bay, have not yet been written up as a formal study or reviewed by other researchers. But Dr. Haney’s work provides a vivid portrait of men so severely isolated that, to use Dr. Haney’s term, they have undergone a “social death.” (Goode, 8/3)
The Honolulu Star Advertiser: Mental Illness Appears Criminal
Half of all the people arrested in Honolulu suffer from serious mental illness, severe substance abuse or both — a share that has doubled since 2010. The number of psychologically troubled people placed in handcuffs is climbing despite a successful effort to funnel people who need mental health treatment toward hospitals and other care rather than arresting and locking them up. (Essoyan, 8/3)
