mental health

In The Trial Of Lindsay Clancy, Capitalism Is The Guilty Party

August 6, 2026 Mike Pappas and Charlotte White, Left Voice. Educate! Capitalism, Health Care, Legal System, Lindsay Clancy, mental health, Women's Rights

Massachusetts nurse and young mother Lindsay Clancy began receiving medical treatment for postpartum anxiety in late 2022. Between then and January 2023, she sought out care from a psychiatrist, a therapist, and two nurse practitioners. Clancy was initially diagnosed with chronic generalized anxiety disorder and with adjustment disorder with depressed mood. She was prescribed various medications, but her symptoms continued to get worse, leading to additional diagnoses of postpartum bipolar disorder and mania. She checked herself into a day program for patients experiencing postpartum depression.

Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) Mental Health Crisis Deepens

July 29, 2026 Colonel (Ret) Ann Wright, Popular Resistance. Educate! Genocide, Israel, Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF), mental health, suicide, Youth

According to a July 29, 2026 article in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, two women Israeli soldiers have died by suicide in the past two days. The Israeli military that has conducted the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, the destruction of the infrastructure of Gaza, the ethnic cleansing and destruction of homes, farms and thousands of year-old olive orchards in West Bank, imprisoned 10,000 Palestinians, including many children, and the destruction of southern Lebanon, as well as the attack on Iran, continues to show the effects of its inhumane and criminal actions on its soldiers.

What’s Been Lost In Medicine Is Shameful In Psychiatry

July 12, 2026 Bruce E. Levine, Counter Punch. Create! Capitalism, Health Care, mental health, Psychiatry

That is striking about The Lost Art of Healing (1996) is that its author Bernard Lown (1921-2021), the renowned cardiologist who pioneered life-saving technological advances, makes clear that vital to heart health and recovery are human relationships that are being increasingly ignored in technology-worshipping medicine. For Lown, two relationship areas that are critical in heart health and recovery are: (1) the relationship between the physician and the patient; and (2) the relationships between patients with their partners, family members, and other significant people in their lives.

Mental Health Workers Fight For Living Wages

June 24, 2026 Mary Rose Quinn, People's World. Resist! Health Care, mental health, Strike, Texas, Worker Rights

Houston, TX—For the mental health workers at the Harris Center for Mental Health and Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD), the work is a calling. But for many, it’s also a financial struggle that forces them to hold two or even three jobs just to make ends meet. In an interview with People’s World, Brian O’Reilly, a counselor at the Harris Center and member of United Workers of Harris Center-CWA Local 6154, described conditions on the front lines of Houston’s public mental health system as dire—and getting worse. “Generally speaking, conditions are poor, and morale is low,” he said.

Psychoanalysts Are Resigning From The International Psychoanalytical Association

March 30, 2026 Palestine Mental Health Networks, Mondoweiss. Resist! Censorship, Genocide, International Psychoanalytical Association, mental health, Palestine, Resignations

Psychoanalysis understands, better than most disciplines, that silence is never neutral. What is not said does not disappear but returns, distorted, in symptoms. Freud called this the return of the repressed and built an entire method on the insight. What, it is worth asking, is the International Psychoanalytical Association’s (IPA) silence on the genocide in Gaza a symptom of? We are the Palestine Mental Health Networks, a collective of mental health professionals from twenty-three countries, brought together by our commitment to psychoanalytic principles and the fundamental dignity of all human beings — a category from which Palestinians are often excluded.

Insurer Agrees To Pay Millions For Failing To Fix Errors

February 20, 2026 Max Blau, Scheer Post. Educate! Fraud, Health Care, Health Insurers, mental health, New York (NY)

One of New York’s largest health insurers is set to pay a multimillion-dollar fine for failing to fix a series of errors that made it harder for its customers to get mental health care. EmblemHealth this week agreed to a $2.5 million settlement with the New York attorney general’s office because of the large number of inaccuracies in its listings of in-network mental health providers, a problem that has persisted for years. The fine is the biggest secured by the state attorney general’s office in its yearslong quest to clamp down on the chronic problem of provider directory errors, also known as ghost networks.

How The Rhizome Therapy Cooperative Counters Burnout

October 28, 2025 Megan McGee, Grassroots Economic Organizing. Create! Cincinnati, Cooperatives, mental health, Worker Rights

“One of the things I don't think a lot of people outside the mental health field realize,” says clinical social worker Evelyn Heflin, “is that a lot of community mental health agencies, because they're underfunded, and private practices that are larger agency format, really sort of take advantage of the therapists at the bottom.” Faced with unsustainable caseloads, a lack of additional support, and inadequate pay for the work they do—a situation grown drastically worse since the COVID pandemic began—over half of mental health clinicians reported experiencing burnout in surveys conducted between 2021 and 2024.

Over A Billion People In The World Suffer From Mental Health Ailments

September 26, 2025 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Educate! domestic violence, Health Care, mental health, Poverty

I first heard the word ‘depression’ when I was about sixteen. My mother took me to the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS) in Bengaluru, India, to be seen by a professional for what I had just considered to be nightmares and difficult afternoons. I was lucky. Today, only 9% of people in the world receive treatment for depression. The doctor spoke to me for a long time, and I spent several days at NIMHANS being treated by this and other doctors. It was clear to me that my problems largely stemmed from a traumatic incident that took place a few years earlier, when I was raped in my school. My parents held me through the process, giving me the courage to get through the aftermath and shielding me from what they thought would be the absolute humiliation of a public display of the violence.

For-Profit Corporations Are Buying Up More Psychiatric Hospitals

September 25, 2025 Eli Cahan, Pro Publica. Educate! Capitalism, Health Care, mental health, Privatization

As the share of U.S. adults receiving mental health care treatment steadily grows, for-profit companies are playing an increasingly important role. More than 40% of inpatient mental health beds were operated by for-profit entities as of 2021, according to unpublished data from Morgan Shields, an assistant professor at Washington University in St. Louis who studies quality in behavioral health care. That’s up from about 13% in 2010. (The number of mental health beds held relatively constant during that time.) Experts tie this growth to provisions of the Affordable Care Act, which made mental health care an essential health benefit that all insurance plans are required to cover.

The Military Occupation Of Washington, DC: Then And Now

September 10, 2025 Jacqueline Luqman, Black Agenda Report. Educate! Black America, Drug War, Law Enforcement, Mass Incarceration, mental health, Occupation, Systemic Racism, Washington D.C.

DC residents are living under an expanded military occupation ordered by Donald Trump that many are calling “unprecedented.” However, this is not the first time this action has been taken. Understanding this history is essential to properly contextualize what is happening now and to focus on the correct narrative and issue to fight going forward. I grew up in Southeast DC after my mom moved us from our hometown of Jarratt, VA to a little apartment in a four-unit building on Parkland Place when I was about five or six years old. We enjoyed free summer concerts in the park across the street from our building. I used to walk about a half a mile to Malcolm X Elementary school during the week, and to Liff’s Market across the street from that school every Sunday to get the paper for my mom and snacks for myself.

Mental Health Professionals Join Calls For Boycott Of Advertising Agencies

June 18, 2025 Ellen Ormesher, DeSmog. Resist! climate crisis, Gas Industry, Health Care, mental health

Health organisations should cut ties with advertising agencies that work for the fossil fuel industry to protest the role of greenwashing in delaying climate action, says a group of mental health advocates. In an open letter, a dozen researchers and clinicians warned of the growing toll of despair suffered by displaced families, the disorientation and grief communities face after floods, drought and wildfires, and the anxiety of children facing a worsening climate crisis. “Advertising and public relations firms that serve both the health sector and the fossil fuel industry are working at cross purposes.

Long Strike Yields Big Gains For Kaiser Mental Health Workers

May 30, 2025 Cal Winslow, Labor Notes. Resist! California, Health Care, Healthcare workers, Kaiser Permanente, mental health, Strikes, Unions, Victory, Worker Rights and Jobs

The 196-day strike of Kaiser Southern California mental healthcare workers is over. The 2,400 therapists, psychiatric nurses, social workers and psychologists won significant gains not just for themselves but for their patients in a time of an acute national mental healthcare crisis. They are members of the National Union of Healthcare Workers. They outlasted Kaiser, the huge California-based health maintenance organization, with six and a half months of picket lines from Modesto to San Diego. They held rallies at Kaiser’s Southern California medical centers. They blockaded the Sunset Strip. They held a hunger strike, putting their own health on the line to improve care for patients and reverse Kaiser’s record of misconduct.

Kaiser Strikers Say When Therapists Burn Out, Patients Suffer

December 16, 2024 Adriana Webb, Labor Notes. Resist! Health Care, Kaiser Permanente, mental health, Walkouts, Worker Rights and Jobs

I work as a medical social worker in the infectious diseases clinic, working primarily with patients who have been diagnosed with HIV and AIDS. I help my patients navigate Kaiser’s complex health care system, get access to needed resources, and figure out how they can afford a life-sustaining medication that often costs thousands of dollars per month. I see firsthand how Kaiser’s mental health system is failing these patients. It’s nearly impossible for them to get access to timely mental health care, and because Kaiser treats its therapists like assembly-line factory workers, so many therapists get burned out and leave.

No Child Should Be A Target

November 21, 2024 Palestine Global Mental Health Network, Mondoweiss. Organize! Children, Genocide, International Solidarity, Lebanon, mental health, Palestine, War crimes

The Palestine-Global Mental Health Network, along with its international counterparts, is now launching an international campaign to demand that world governments hold Israel accountable to the principles of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child—principles which prioritize the inherent right to life and uphold the best interests of all children. The genocidal intentions of the Zionist settler-colonial state, recognized by many as Israel, (hereinafter referred to as Israel), are made clear in various documented statements by its officials. The former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has derogatorily referred to Palestinians as “human animals”, while Israeli President Isaac Herzog has stated, “there are no innocent civilians in Gaza”.

UnitedHealth’s Playbook For Limiting Coverage Puts Countless People At Risk

November 20, 2024 Annie Waldman, ProPublica. Educate! Denials, health, Health Insurance, Insurance, mental health, UnitedHealthcare

For years, it was a mystery: Seemingly out of the blue, therapists would feel like they’d tripped some invisible wire and become a target of UnitedHealth Group. A company representative with the Orwellian title “care advocate” would call and grill them about why they’d seen a patient twice a week or weekly for six months. In case after case, United would refuse to cover care, leaving patients to pay out-of-pocket or go without it. The severity of their issues seemed not to matter. Around 2016, government officials began to pry open United’s black box.

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