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California Rumor (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Making Shutter Island turned Leonardo DiCaprio into an expert on mental health. The hotly awaited new thriller directed by Martin Scorsese and set in 1954 will not be released until February 19 in the US and March 12 in the UK. DiCaprio immersed himself in dark documentaries in working on his role as Teddy Daniels, a detective trying to track down a murderess who escapes from a hospital for the criminally...
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
Recognize Excellence in Reporting, Portrayals of Mental Health Issues; Deadline for Submissions is March 31 ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Mental Health America encourages journalists and media professionals to submit national, state, local and student news and feature stories in
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The Star-Ledger (Free subscription) | yesterday
PISCATAWAY -- With concerns mounting over how college students cope with stress, depression and anxiety, more than 200 school staffers and mental health advocates gathered at Rutgers University in Piscataway today to help refine strategies for suicide prevention. Campuses say...
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The Political Carnival (Free subscription) | yesterday
By GottaLaff Will MeanGirl Mc TelePalmer go after the Obama administration for this? The Civil Rights Division encourages qualified applicants with targeted disabilities to apply. Targeted disabilities are deafness, blindness, missing extremities, partial or complete paralysis, convulsive disorder, mental retardation , mental illness, severe distortion of limbs and/or spine. Maybe she and Boss Limpdong...
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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
PROVIDING ALL the money in the world for the development of mental health services will be useless unless the fear people have of accessing these services can be addressed, Minister of State with responsibility for mental health John Moloney said yesterday.
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Researchers write to refute lack of sensitivity, but warn that high incidence of emotional distress must be addressed calmly and sensibly Contrary to a recent article ( At the centre of detention, 3 February ) and letter on the website ( 3 February ), there is robust evidence from over 20 studies that there is a high incidence of serious emotional distress in the black Caribbean population in the...
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John Goodman's Health Policy Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
This is Megan McArdle at her blog: I am very sympathetic to the plight of the mentally ill. Unfortunately, most of the people who will tap the benefits are not severely ill people who need intensive care; they’re people who are unhappy. Unhappiness is not a condition for which psychotherapy, or antidepressants, have been shown to be very [...]
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The battered bodies may be mending, but the minds still struggle. As many as one in five Haiti earthquake victims have suffered trauma so great with the multiple shock of lost homes, jobs and loved ones that they won't be able to cope without professional help, doctors say. In a country where mental health services barely existed before the quake, building the required...
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Legal Profession Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
An attorney who was the subject of bar complaints from five former clients was suspended for two years by the Georgia Supreme Court. The attorney had stipulated to a sanction in the six-month to two-year range. He had asserted that...
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Elaine Hanzak's blog (Free subscription) | 20 hours ago
A regular e-bulletin from the Mental Health in Higher Education Project is a useful resource of news, events, resources, podcasts, etc. around mental health. The latest edition is here http://www.mhhe.heacademy.ac.uk/news-and-events/ebulletin/ Elaine Hanzak www.hanzak.com
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Thrive (Free subscription) | yesterday
That’s what a recent study is claiming. This study found that five times as many high school and college students are dealing with anxiety and other mental health issues as youth of the same age who were studied in the Great Depression era. According to Children’s psychiatrist, Stuart Goldman, MD, the interpretation of these findings all [...]
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Boston Globe (Free subscription) | yesterday
Vermont insurance regulators say tuition insurance offered at the University of Vermont and other colleges must provide the same coverage to students who leave school for mental illness as for physical illness or injury.
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Jobacle.com Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
New Rule’s Timing Couldn’t Be Better On January 29, 2010, federal regulations were issued regarding parity in mental health and substance abuse insurance coverage. What it means is that employer group health insurance plans (of companies with over 50 employees) will now have to offer the same coverage for mental health and drug abuse treatment as they do for medical illnesses.
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nagaraj777 | 02/06/2010
aking a daily dose of fish oil can do wonders for your mental health and yet many of us are still unaware of this and tend to associate fish oil as having a beneficial effect on the heart or arthritis and not specifically on the brain itself.
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visionshopsters | 02/05/2010
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, ADHD, is one of the more common mental disorders that arise in children. Children with attention deficit disorder have difficulty functioning in multiple settings, including home, school, and in relationships with peers. If untreated, the disorder can have long-term adverse effects into adolescence and adulthood. Though previously looked upon as a childhood...
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ramarsrc50 | 02/05/2010
Taking a daily dose of fish oil can do wonders for your mental health and yet many of us are still unaware of this and tend to associate fish oil as having a beneficial effect on the heart or arthritis and not specifically on the brain itself.
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