NC Mental Hope News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Bernie Bliss Guest Columnist May 14, 2008 May is Mental Health Month. Many of you know that NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) is an organization of families who have a member with mental illness. NAMI Colorado and our Weld County Affiliate are part of the network of NAMI. Did you know that attention deficit-hyperactivity in children (ADHD), post-traumatic...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Stockholm - A study of women convicted of sexual offences in Sweden suggests that mental problems and drug addiction were common, researchers at Sweden's Karolinska Institute said Wednesday. The survey of 93 women who were convicted in Sweden of sexu...
New Scientist - Being Human (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Feed the brain a chemical linked with love, trust and affection and all sorts of magical things happen. reports (full text available to subscribers)
Examiner (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
The inmate accused of killing a fellow convict aboard a Baltimore-bound prison bus shows signs of a slew of mental problems, including schizo-affective disorder, fetal-alcohol syndrome and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, a psychiatrist testified Tuesday.
Misblog (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Public Broadcast Service ( PBS ), as part of their National Health Campaign program series Take-One-Step, has produced a fantastic program about an illness affecting millions of Americans—depression. Depression Out of the Shadows places depression center stage, where it belongs, until we have developed and perfected effective treatments, if not its cure! Kudos to the collaborative efforts of...
Bipolar Blast (Free subscription) | yesterday
Trauma is often the cause of supposed mental illness. John Breeding again offers wonderful commentary on this phenomena. Hundreds of thousands of people are misdiagnosed with mental illness when their issue is actually the experience of trauma and meds are not the answer, the expression and discharge of the pain is what is needed. That [...]
SEOCentro - SEO News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Yahoo may need to fight off Carl Icahn Syndrome by Proxy today. Munchausen syndrome by proxy (MSP) is a type of factitious disorder which appears strikingly similar to the Icahn strategy. MSP is a mental illness where a person acts as if an individual he's caring for has a physical or mental illness when the person is not really sick. Is Yahoo sick? No. That won't stop dissident...
MSDN Blogs (Free subscription) | yesterday
Treating people with Chronic Diseases (Asthma, Cancer, Mental Illness, Cardiovascular Disease etc) is the biggest area of health expenditure by far. Because of this, the Government focus is shifting rapidly to trying to better manage these patients and keep them out of hospital. You will have noticed in the recently announced Federal Budget (and the lead up to the budget) that there...
NoisyRoom.net (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
From the Chesler Chronicles at Pajamas Media: In the mid-1990s, women in the former Yugoslavia were being systematically gang-raped. Often, their rapes were videotaped. Many killed themselves afterwards and many more suffered serious mental illness. At one point, I was preparing to testify about Rape Trauma Syndrome on their behalf in the Hague in the Matter [...]
JournalHome.com Free Blog Host (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
I am in need of some sort of therapy to figure out how I'm feeling about my life and what's happened to me. So, this blog is my way of being my own therapist. Mental illness runs rampet in my family, and I'm not sure if I actally share that with my family or not. So, this blog is going to be all about how I'm feeling. No one will probebly ever read this, and I'm fine with that. It's...
Nevada Thunder (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
side note: we posted this story last week. this is a response from the Deputy Director at NORML. By: Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director http://blog.norml.org Feds: Teen use of pot can lead to mental illness via The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) —Depression, teens and marijuana are [...]
Mail online - Peter Hitchens (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Read Peter Hitchens only in The Mail on Sunday I would add that if there is as yet not much research linking cannabis with mental illness, it is because that research has yet to be commissioned, and should be commissioned....
Cornish Guardian (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
The county's specialist mental health provider is asking for contributions to a booklet on returning to work after a period of mental illness.
Planck's Constant (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
... In his defense, I should mention that I am now beginning to think that conciliatory cowardice is a mental illness that afflicts old men who have lived through a previous war. This may explain why John Murtha is a cowardly defeatist. Anyone who wants us out of Iraq precisely because he thinks that negotiation and appeasement will work better against our Muslim enemies than a whack...
Screw Politically Correct B.S. (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
So everyone knows I have a mentally deficient, cognitively challenged Moonbat who posts here every day. I think it's interesting to study the pathology of the Moonbaticus Moronicus for scientific purposes. We need to understand what makes them tick so we can defeat them. Let's look at the Moonbat guano from this evening for example. In response to my post on the earthquake in China the Moonbat says:...
