Informative Podcasts

Stories and interviews on audio files

Psychiatric Patients
A new study finds that most patients discharged from psychiatric hospitals pose no greater threat of violence to the community than similar people without mental illness.

Work and Mental Illness
What qualifies as a mental impairment... and what adjustments must be made to accommodate workers with psychiatric disabilities...

Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison
Jacki Lyden chronicles her mothers 20-year struggle with the illness and Dr. Redfield Jamison, a leading mental health professional, describes her own bout with manic depression.

Surgeon General David Satcher
Satcher says many Americans arent willing to seek treatment because mental illness carries a stigma, or because they have inadequate health coverage.

Media images of the mentally ill
While media coverage of mental illness has increased dramatically in recent years, NPRs Jacki Lyden reports that images of the mentally ill arent always accurate or positive.

Homeless in America
Most of those on the street are male, non-white and suffering from physical or mental illness.

Life on the Outside
The story of a man who has been in and out of jail, trying to break the cycle of crime and incarceration. Chicagos Cook County Jail, is Illinois biggest mental health facility, treating a thousand men and women on an average day.

Mental Illness and Violence
According to a study, Americans increasingly associate mental illness with the potential for violence despite evidence the mentally ill are not violence-prone.

Grass Roots Activists Dig Deeper
Grass roots activists are attempting to register mentally ill people to vote.The activists say that voting will help people with mental illness feel more a part of society. They also say, mentally ill people could form an important new voting block.

Most Young Offenders Are Mentally Ill
More than one-third of parents surveyed said their kids are in the juvenile justice system because that was the only place they could get help.

Manic Depression-Sarah's Story
Sarah has been in and out of mental hospitals, but now she has two part-time jobs and has been healthy for nearly two years.

Stigma and mental illness
Report on the stigma attached to mental illness and the tendency that people have to keep mental illness secret in order to protect themselves and their jobs.

PBS NewsHour-Two-thirds do not seek treatment
One American in five suffers from a mental disorder in any given year, but two-thirds do not seek treatment because of shame or cost of care.

Trends in research and attitudes
A report on the White House conference on mental health and current trends in research and attitudes about mental health.

Streaming Video
Internet Video about Mental Illness.