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'Survivor Syndrome': Ukraine Refugees Cope With Guilt Of Fleeing War
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.
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Pak-Origin Scholar Killed By Man Who Shot A Friend And Was In Asylum
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 ...
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17 Kept Chained At "Dargah" Asylum In UP Released, Centre Tells Top Court
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.
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22 Mentally-Ill Inmates Of Uttar Pradesh Asylum Return Home
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
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Chaining Mentally Ill Atrocious And Inhuman: Supreme Court
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.
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Comedian Sidharth Sagar Alleges He Was 'Thrown In Asylum, Treated For Ailments He Never Had'
Sidharth Sagar alleged that his parents gave him bipolar disorder medicines mixed in his food
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Submit Guidelines For Rehabilitation Of Mentally Ill Persons: Supreme Court To Centre
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 ...
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Will Wait For Parliament To Pass Bill On Setting Up Asylums: Supreme Court
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.
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Why Gwyneth Paltrow Thinks She'll End up in a 'Mental Asylum'
"Sometimes I feel like the psycho in Sleeping with the Enemy," said Gwyneth Paltrow
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Australia Urged to Come Clean on Asylum-Seekers' Mental Health
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.
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US Jails Struggle With Role as Makeshift Asylums
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.
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Mayawati Furious At Mulayam Singh Yadav's Comment About Her Marital Status
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."
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Kalki Koechlin: If I take rumour seriously, I'd be in mental asylum
Rumours can't be taken seriously or they would drive a person crazy, feels Kalki Koechlin.
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Three arrested for murder of mentally-ill woman in Bengal
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.
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Lucknow: Whistleblower bureaucrat whisked away from protest site at midnight, taken to psychiatric ward
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.
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'Survivor Syndrome': Ukraine Refugees Cope With Guilt Of Fleeing War
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.
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Pak-Origin Scholar Killed By Man Who Shot A Friend And Was In Asylum
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 ...
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17 Kept Chained At "Dargah" Asylum In UP Released, Centre Tells Top Court
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.
-
22 Mentally-Ill Inmates Of Uttar Pradesh Asylum Return Home
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 Atrocious And Inhuman: Supreme Court
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.
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Comedian Sidharth Sagar Alleges He Was 'Thrown In Asylum, Treated For Ailments He Never Had'
Sidharth Sagar alleged that his parents gave him bipolar disorder medicines mixed in his food
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Submit Guidelines For Rehabilitation Of Mentally Ill Persons: Supreme Court To Centre
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 ...
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Will Wait For Parliament To Pass Bill On Setting Up Asylums: Supreme Court
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.
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Why Gwyneth Paltrow Thinks She'll End up in a 'Mental Asylum'
"Sometimes I feel like the psycho in Sleeping with the Enemy," said Gwyneth Paltrow
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Australia Urged to Come Clean on Asylum-Seekers' Mental Health
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.
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US Jails Struggle With Role as Makeshift Asylums
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.
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Mayawati Furious At Mulayam Singh Yadav's Comment About Her Marital Status
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."
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Kalki Koechlin: If I take rumour seriously, I'd be in mental asylum
Rumours can't be taken seriously or they would drive a person crazy, feels Kalki Koechlin.
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Three arrested for murder of mentally-ill woman in Bengal
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.
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Lucknow: Whistleblower bureaucrat whisked away from protest site at midnight, taken to psychiatric ward
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.
