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After a personal experience with stalking, youth reporter Chris Williams wondered how harmless interest can turn into an obsession. He spoke to a lawyer, a psychologist, and a self-identified stalker to explore where that line is and what brings people to cross it.
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A new inpatient psychiatric hospital for children and adolescents in Butner will soon begin accepting patients. It aims to provide better care and help alleviate backlogs in emergency departments around the state.
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The HEART program, Durham's mental health crisis response program, has now expanded to serve the entire city. The program also has new hours and availability, along with more employees.
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The deaths among Washington crewmembers occurred during a six-year period when the carrier remained in the shipyard for maintenance.
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The range of diagnoses that make up schizophrenia spectrum disorders are hard to define and tricky to diagnose. An author, an artist and a blogger tell their own stories about experiencing schizophrenia.
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When Anita first picked up “The Collected Schizophrenias" by Esmé Weijun Wang, she realized how rare it was to find a first-hand account of someone navigating periods of psychosis. She brings Esmé on to talk about the relationship between mental illness and identity. Plus, she meets an artist who explores his hallucinations through drawing and a blogger documenting her experience as a mother with schizoaffective disorder.
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For a little more than a decade, UNC Health Care has provided care at WakeBrook, the mental health hospital in east Raleigh. Wake County owns the facility, but UNC has been the care provider. Earlier this year, UNC Health announced it will transition away from WakeBrook, a move advocates say will leave a hole in care for some of the most vulnerable patient populations in the area.
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When parents cannot find treatment for their children, or cannot afford the available treatment, their last resort may be refusing to pick up their children from the hospital. This sparks a call to social services — which sometimes is the only way to get the needed care.
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The newly introduced bill by Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) would allow for nonprofit organizations to receive grants to carry out such programs.
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The decision by North Carolina lawmakers to expand Medicaid will come with a billion dollars of new federal funds for the state. But the House and Senate disagree on how to spend the money.