Mental illness

7265: Stereotyping Mental Illness.

MultiCultClassics (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago

From The Los Angeles Times… Center helps Asian Americans combat mental illness Among challenges: The subject is nearly taboo in many Asian countries, and research in this country tends to lump the diverse group into one ethnic category. By Ching-Ching Ni Since she was a teenager, Stella Ho has wrestled with fainting spells, seizures and suicidal tendencies. Doctors in her native Hong Kong struggled...

• Center helps Asian Americans combat mental illness - L. A. Times Dodgers Blog

Duh: Poor Mental Health = Poor Performance

Healthbolt (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago

Add another one to the Duh Files: Poor Mental Health Leads to Poor Job Performance. Really? Researchers in Australia sent questionnaires to 60,556 workers that asked about anxiety, depression and other mental disorders. These results were matched with job performance. The researchers were looking for a relationship between the two. Guess what they found? If you said “those who had symptoms of...

Mental health cases tax police, emergency workers

WAAY - WAAY News and Home (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009

Associated Press - November 21, 2009 12:45 PM ET BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) - Police and emergency responders around the nation have long struggled to deal with people who have mental illness.

• Mental health cases tax police, emergency workers - Examiner
• Mental health cases tax police, emergency workers - Arizona Republic
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My Views on Psychiatry and “Mental Illness” — John Breeding, PhD

Beyond Meds (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009

Printed with permission from John Breeding. See his website here. My purpose in this short essay is twofold. The first is to describe my understanding of the nature of psychological distress and emotional healing. The second is to expose the truth about our modern mental health system, call it Psychiatry, which diagnoses citizens as “mentally ill” [...]

We need more compassion for mental illness

Florida Sun Sentinel (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009

We need more compassion, less stigma for mental illness Journalists sometimes trade in misery. It's part of the job.

Patients with mental illness denied access to state hospital

Dayton Daily News (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009

When Gov. Ted Strickland approved the June 2008 closure of Dayton’s Twin Valley Behavioral Healthcare on Wayne Avenue, ending a 153-year history, it was with the promise that local people with severe mental illness would still have access to state hospital care, though they’d have to go to Cincinnati to get it.

Patients with mental illness face difficulties gaining access to state hospitals

Dayton Daily News (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009

When Gov. Ted Strickland approved the June 2008 closure of Dayton’s Twin Valley Behavioral Healthcare on Wayne Avenue, ending a 153-year history, it was with the promise that local people with severe mental illness would still have access to state hospital care, though they’d have to go to Cincinnati to get it.

Pundit psychiatrists on Palin, Obama

Brendan Nyhan (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago

The only thing worse than pretending to read minds is offering long-distance diagnoses of mental illness in your political opponents -- a practice that has become increasingly common among pundits on the left and right. In the last few weeks,...

Death at Fort Hood

Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

By Theron Bowers, Mercartornet Every element in the media's template for multiple shootings by sick and stressed killers is wrong. Have they forgotten about Evil? "You think you know a person by seeing them, by how they act, but sometimes you’re wrong," Patricia Villa, neighbour of Major Nidal Malik Hasan Although our knowledge of mental illness has [...]

Mentally ill get housing in study

atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago

The largest project in Canada's history to study the link between mental illness and homelessness kicks off Monday, offering hope – and a home – to more than 1,300 street people across the country.

Help for homeless

Toronto Sun - News (Free subscription) | yesterday

A research project that takes homeless people with mental illness off the streets in five cities, including Toronto, and provides them with a safe place to live officially launches today, the first such effort by the new Mental Health Commission of Canada.

‘I felt like I was crazy’ | Duluth News Tribune | Duluth, Minnesota

PTSD After Childbirth (Free subscription) | yesterday

By: Sarah Horner , Duluth News Tribune Kamara Langenbrunner, 10, sits with her purple violin at her Cloquet home. Kamara, who was diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder a couple of years ago, says playing the violin has helped her through the process of dealing with the disorder. (Clint Austin / caustin@duluthnews.com ) When Kamara Langenbrunner was 8, she started hearing voices. The first time...

MIWatch.org calls for real disclosure reform

Covering Health (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009

Phyllis Vine at MIWatch.org, a site that follows news about mental illness, asks whether drug company disclosures about payments made to doctors go far enough and whether anyone actually pays attention to such disclosures. Vine raises the question of doctors taking part in "educational settings, including grand rounds, courses at professional ...

Divorcing couples to be offered counselling on the NHS

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009

Extended 'talking therapies' programme aims to tackle anxiety, mental illness and depression The government is to announce that divorcing couples will be offered counselling on the National Health Service for the first time in an effort to tackle growing rates of depression. The move will be unveiled by health secretary Andy Burnham this week. From April, couples' counselling programmes will be launched...

Gateway Putz: 70% of Americans are mentally ill.

INSTAPUTZ (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009

The latest from the 20-percenters. Anyone who believes that this woman [Palin] could not perform the duties of President adequately must have some kind of mental illness, which is likely liberalism. Turns out there's a whole lotta crazy liburls in this country . Fewer than three in 10 Americans think Sarah Palin's qualified to be president, according to a new national poll - the least of any of the...

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tripsguide | 11/13/2009

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Dual Diagnosis Treatment

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Stigma of mental health makes finding work in recession more difficult, reveals Time to Change survey

wellbeingnewseditor | 09/23/2009

Wellbeing Newsline: Contributors > Mind – the mental health charity > A shocking 92 per cent of the British public believes that admitting to having a mental illness would damage someone’s career... Wellbeing Newsline > Magazine > Contributors > World > Europe > United Kingdom > England > Scotland > Northern Ireland > Wales > Greater London > Norfolk > Suffolk > Essex > Cambridgeshire > Hertfordshire...