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WakeMed broke ground Thursday on a new mental health campus in Garner. Physicians say it will help them transform behavioral health care.

An apparent mental health crisis was de-escalated in Fairfield on Saturday, after a person who was allegedly threatening self-harm was talked down from an interstate overpass.

Police in Fairfield temporarily closed a portion of the I-80 highway at Travis Boulevard on Saturday morning while responding to a person who was suffering a mental health crisis.

A common conflict between consumers and insurers in mental health coverage: When a consumer says they were approved for coverage and the insurer takes it back.

At the end of last year, 30 defendants from New Orleans were awaiting transfer to the hospital. By mid-October, 33 remained caught in the backlog, confined in a jail that a federal judge has ruled unequipped to handle defendants’ serious mental-health needs.

As artificial intelligence (AI) services, like ChatGPT, grow more popular, psychologists are concerned with those using AI for mental health advice. Leah Claire Bennett, with Pine Grove Behavioral Health in Hattiesburg,