Several Street Roots vendors were at Cityteam, some for shelter and others for an AA meeting, when police shot John Elifritz on April 7 It has been a hard week at Street Roots. A handful of our vendors witnessed the police shooting Saturday night at Cityt ...
13 Apr 2018 - Kaia Sand
The Florida judge talks about a restorative justice system that doesn’t criminalize mental illness In 1993, Aaron Wynn suffered a psychotic episode while he was in a grocery store in Broward County, Fla. It was a residual effect from the head trauma he su ...
23 Feb 2018 - Amanda Waldroupe
Depression isn't rooted in biology but in how we're living our lives, author Johann Hari explains The way we’ve been taught to think about depression and anxiety is all wrong, says Johann Hari. In his new book, the London-based journalist and Ne ...
19 Jan 2018 - Emily Green
COMMENTARY | The stigmatizing language undermines real talk about mental health; Trump's problem is bad judgment For quite a while, pundits, journalists, political scientists and many others have exclaimed President Donald Trump is mentally ill. They ...
13 Oct 2017 - Meredith Mathis and Jason Renaud
BOOK REVIEW | “Unf#ck Your Brain: Using Science to Get Over Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Freak-outs, and Triggers” by Faith G. Harper Faith G. Harper is an experienced mental health provider. She is a trauma-informed therapist; a licensed clinician with ce ...
25 Aug 2017 - Meredith Mathis
COMMENTARY | 'I can’t express in words how unbearable and exhausting simple things were' The suicide epidemic we face deeply saddens me, so I offer my experience to give others hope. It was like a switch had been flicked off. There I am, one day ...
11 Aug 2017 - Rachel Post
The renowned scholar and author is coming to Portland to talk about her own experience with schizophrenia One day, when she was 16, Elyn Saks abruptly got up from her desk, walked out of her classroom and left school. She headed home, but she could not ex ...
9 Jun 2017 - Amanda Waldroupe
Chazzi Davis, an Oklahoma street paper vendor, says his art is therapeutic Chazzi Davis lives with bipolar disorder. Twenty years ago, he lost everything due to his mental health issues. He can never have his old life back but has found that taking abstra ...
20 Apr 2017 - Ranya Forgotson
Commissioners vote against exonerating officer who used Taser on man with epilepsy, mental illness at least four times Updated at 2:30 p.m. to include comments from Portland Copwatch. For the first time in 14 years, Portland City Council was called upon W ...
23 Feb 2017 - Emily Green
COMMENTARY | The event is structured to create a respectful and empowering atmosphere Rethinking Psychiatry, along with two other local grassroots organizations, The M.O.M.S. Movement and The Icarus Project, hosted two Truth and Reconciliation circles in ...
16 Feb 2017 - Rachel Levy