Nearly 7,800 New Yorkers were taken to hospitals against their will for psychiatric assessments in 2024, according to a new report from the Mayor’s Office of Community Mental Health. These trips were ...

A single hospitalization can upend a patient’s life, escalate psychological and financial stress and in many cases, create a vicious cycle of rehospitalization. It is maybe fairer to say that ...

New York City leaders are divided over involuntary hospitalizations of people who show signs of severe mental illness, as lawmakers in Albany debate whether to expand officials’ power to remove them ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul is reiterating her efforts to make it easier to involuntarily commit and treat people with severe mental illness in the wake of a spate of violence in the subway. In a statement ...

In March or 2007, after subsisting for five years with untreated schizophrenia, which manifested as severe psychosis, delusions, homelessness, and incarceration, I was taken to a psychiatric hospital ...

Half said they would expand the practice, but all agreed commitments are not the sole solution. Michael Blake: Yes, as we implement the law already passed, to help those with serious mental health ...

New York is in the midst of both a mental health crisis and homelessness crisis, which is playing out in a very public fashion — on the streets, subways, and other public spaces. But when it comes to ...

Black people like Shyheim Banks bear the brunt of the public mental health system’s failures: They represent 32% of the 302 population, but just 13% of the county’s total population. The post ...

Last month, not for the first time, New York City Mayor Eric Adams was asked about how his administration can proactively address random acts of violence. The question has come up in relation to crime ...