Jean Kuczka, 61, had coached hundreds of students over the years and was looking forward to retirement. Alexzandria Bell, 15, was looking forward to traveling to Los Angeles to celebrate her sweet 16th birthday. Kuczka…

TOPEKA — Kansas ranked worst in the nation for mental illness prevalence and mental health care access in a 2023 report, but new data shows the state’s ranking significantly improved this year. An annual report…

LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — A history of mental illness. An array of weapons. Numerous run-ins with police. But he was still able to own guns and commit the deadliest mass shooting in Maine’s history. One…

Teenagers from Iola and Johnson County will lead a revamped “13 Reasons to Fly SEK” mental health awareness event at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center. on Monday. The annual event, which began in 2019, offers…

MANHATTAN — Sedgwick County farmer Mick Rausch’s struggle with depression coincided with his brother’s cancer diagnosis and a freeze that thwarted harvest of a wheat crop. Rausch had promised his father-in-law that he would not…

WICHITA, Kansas — Kansas performs worse on key measures of mental health than anywhere else in the U.S. A new report by Mental Health America tracking mental illness and the ease of accessing care found…

April 30, 2022, was the most shattering day of my life. My beloved mother, Naomi Judd, who had come to believe that her mental illness would only get worse, never better, took her own life…

It was dusk on a beautiful August evening, 1983. I exited an upscale Chicago hotel with my girlfriend, whose employer had just hosted a gala dinner. Dressed to the nines, we strolled leisurely down the…

As a young student, Amber Jewell held on to Fridays because that was the day school cooks distributed extra biscuits at lunch. “I was always so hungry and that gesture really impacted me as an…

Hi, Carolyn: Common mental health parlance often talks about “accepting” x about y person. What does that look like? How do you make your brain not expect or wish for certain things or not be…