Are people with mental disorders really more violent?

In my last post, I wrote about why it’s not fair to lump terrorists together with people who mental illness, and a friend of mine replied thus in an email: I agree with your conclusion just that I really think mentally people are more violent than other people. Not because the mental illness makes them …

Have you been told any of these 5 myths about mental illness?

This post was first published on AfricanHadithi, an online magazine about Africa by Africans on everyday African experiences.  In a post on AfricanHadithi, I talked about how Tinsel has not being as helpful as it could have to the cause of mental health and disorders, and one of the things I said was that the show would have …

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