North Country Gazette (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
A new report providing state-by-state analyses of substance abuse and mental illness patterns reveals that there are wide variations in the levels of problems like illicit drug use found among the states, but that every state suffers from these problems. For example, among those aged 12 and older, Iowa had less than half the current [...]
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 21 hours ago
The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) reminds Americans that July is Bebe Moore Campbell National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month, a time for public education about serious mental illness in diverse communities. In 2008, the U.S.
Illinois Nursing Home Abuse Blog (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
A recent nursing home population analysis found that the number of first-time nursing home residents admitted with mental illness has far surpassed the number of those with dementia and Alzheimer’s. The number of nursing home residents admitted with a mental illness rose from 168,721 to 187,478. That is more than 50% more than those admitted dementia only, which considers many mental illnesses....
New York Times (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
To government psychiatrists, Aafia Siddiqui has been faking symptoms of mental illness, hoping to avoid a criminal trial on charges of trying to kill American soldiers and F.B.I. agents in Afghanistan.
Comixpedia - Webcomic News & Views Daily (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Sophia Wiedeman 's The Deformitory is a small, black and white, graphic novel that adds just a touch of realism to its magical realism style. The comic was also her masters thesis for her MFA in Illustration from The School of Visual Arts. Last year, Wiedeman won a Xeric Foundation grant which she used for publication of The Deformitory. Diamond will feature it in its August Previews issue and it...
Why Mommy Is A Republican (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
(Photo, Left: Governor Palin speaking with Lt. Governor Sean Parnell after delivering her resignation speech at her home in Wasilla, AK, July 3, 2009. Photo from the Governor's official website .) When Governor Palin announced her decision to resign from the Office of Governor of Alaska, it turned an otherwise slow news day on its head. Speculation abounded about the reason(s) for this decision and...
Being a lesbian (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
some people believe that you can "cure" homosexuality, but the thing is that it ISNT a disease, nor is it a mental illness. All trying to cure gays does is cause them to go in to deniel and perhaps become mentally ill! How ironic that when people say being gay is a mental illness and try to cure it all it does is cause the person(s) to get a real mental illness! Dear christians who think...
ElsaElsa.com (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
Astrology in real life To wrap up this series of blogs from yesterday (like a Libra, nicely with a bow) the point of all these posts was to show how important it is to think. - A gal writes a psych profile on me based on one piece of misinformation and looks a fool (in my eyes). - A generation of parents is punished for causing mental illness in their children they did not cause all because some guy...
Morton's Musings (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
The Prime Minister gave a thoughtful, compassionate and humane eulogy for Dave Batters, a former MP. I don't often praise Stephen Harper but he deserves praise here: Harper mourns former MP's suicide PM urges greater public understanding of anxiety, depression Tonda MacCharles OTTAWA BUREAU OTTAWA – Reflecting on the life and tragic suicide of a young former Saskatchewan MP, Prime Minister Stephen...
Mind Hacks (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
I've just found this interesting 2007 article on the Fixated Threat Assessment Centre, a combined unit of the British Police and health service that attempts to divert disturbed and potentially dangerous stalkers to mental health services before they attempt violence. [Psychiatrist] David James - whose research helped to found the centre, and who now co-directs it - outlines its mission: 'We have...
Prozac does have a role to play (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
Depression diagnoses decline after FDA warning. Everything was inconclusive, and she was prescribed Prozac. Jon Gosselin Tells People Magazine His Children Aren. Mytext font normal px arial,verdana,helvetica,sans serif. Instead of seeing the disease as the result of a chemical imbalance, these innostream argue that the brain's cells are shrinking and dying. Patients satisfied with GP service availability....
Vox Verax (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago
By MAUREEN DOWD NYT WASHINGTON Sarah Palin showed on Friday that in one respect at least, she is qualified to be president. Caribou Barbie is one nutty puppy. Usually we don’t find that exquisite battiness in our leaders until they’ve been battered by sordid scandals like Watergate (Nixon), gnawing problems like Vietnam (L.B.J.), or scary threats like biological terrorism (Cheney). When...
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 20 hours ago
In a snapshot survey published by Terrence Higgins Trust today, two thirds of top organisations were found to ask irrelevant health related questions on job application forms. A coalition of charities wants these questions banned to reduce the discrimination faced by people with 'invisible' conditions such as mental illness or HIV.
Everybody Secede Now! (Free subscription) | yesterday
I'll probably be posting random thoughts on Michael Jackson's life and death for awhile. Fair warning. I never thought Michael Jackson was a child molester. On the contrary, he seemed to me to have had a great love for children, especially his own. Rather, I think that what we so often perceived as bizarre behavior and bad judgment on his part was likely explainable in far more pedestrian terms: childhood...
Living With Depression (Free subscription) | yesterday
Human beings inherit a wild conscience that constantly tries to destroy the human part of the conscience through craziness. This was a discovery made through very dangerous research into unknown regions of the human psychic sphere. Today we know that we have this enemy inside our psyches and minds. And today we can also finally put an end to terror, violence, immorality, and all forms of craziness...
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medicfarma0 | 07/03/2009
Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) is possibly the most common anxiety disorder, affecting 5-6% of the population. It is characterized by chronic worry about many life problems and circumstances and differs from normal worry through the intensity, frequency and uncontrollability of the thoughts. Since anxiety and feelings of stress are a response to pressure, and the more consistent the pressure, the...
medicman007 | 07/01/2009
Depression is a serious mental illness disease that can render you helpless. Many brilliant people, such as Abraham Lincoln and television news commentator, Mike Wallace, have suffered bouts of depression throughout their lives. About 10% of men and 5% of women suffer from depression. Depression is caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain which can be attributed to heredity, an event, personality,
medicman007 | 06/25/2009
Generic Ativan is one of the most popular of the benzodiazepine family of drugs. Lorazepam, sold as Ativan in the United States, is one of the most potent medications for the management of anxiety disorders. Anxiety is a normal reaction to an upcoming event on which we place a great degree of importance. These events occur regularly in our lives, and our feelings of anxiousness and nervousness in anticipation
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