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Army brigade leaders at Fort Campbell have begun monthly meetings of officers, doctors and counselors to catch early signs of emotional or mental stress among their troops and intervene before soldiers hurt themselves or others.
Marines treated at Camp Lejeune for post-traumatic stress had to undergo therapy for months in temporary trailers where they could hear bomb blasts, machine-gun fire and war cries through the thin walls, according to servicemen and their former psychiatrist.
Washington state officials are planning a news conference Friday afternoon to announce new precautions they're taking after a schizophrenic killer escaped while on a field trip.
Mental health professionals have long known that certain mental illnesses can run within families — and that history weighs heavily on some people who are struggling to decide whether to have children and risk passing it on.
The Spokane County sheriff says he'll bill Washington state $37,000 for the cost of hunting down an insane killer who walked away from a county fair field trip arranged by his mental hospital.
Two years after an Iraq war veteran overdosed on medication at a Veterans Affairs facility, the problems blamed in his death have not been corrected at many of the VA's residential treatment sites, a government study found.
Some examples The Associated Press found of patients at psychiatric hospitals being held in seclusion for months or years at a time:
For more than a century, thousands of mentally disabled Americans were isolated from society, sometimes for life, by being confined to huge state institutions.
Equal parts graceful and eerie, massive brick and stone asylums once loomed over towns from Maine to California as the 19th century's ideal for the humane treatment of the mentally ill.
A mentally ill homeless man will serve 57 months in federal prison for threats he made against President Bush.
Roughly one in every five U.S. troops who have survived the bombs and other dangers of Iraq and Afghanistan now suffers from major depression or post-traumatic stress, an independent study said Thursday. It estimated the toll at 300,000 or more.
The 268-148 roll call Wednesday by which the House passed a bill to require equal health insurance coverage for mental and physical illnesses when policies cover both.
Mental illness and the media are as inextricably linked as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. My first realization of this came when I announced way back that I was going to journalism school with the intent of becoming a reporter. Since my parents couldn’t afford to fly me to Vienna at the time, and research was still sketchy regarding the benefits of shock therapy, they were somewhat helpless and had no alternative but to go along and accept my loony career choice.
Cheer up, Utah. That state, with West Virginia and Kentucky close behind, were just named the saddest in the country in a new report by Mental Health America.
More Gulf Coast residents are thinking seriously about suicide or showing symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder as the recovery from Hurricane Katrina inches along, a new survey finds.
After years of trying, advocates think they have a good chance of getting Congress to pass legislation next year that would require equal health insurance coverage for mental and physical illnesses, if their policies include both.
A jobless Palestinian-born man accused of threatening President Bush while involuntarily committed at a mental hospital was ordered Monday to remain jailed until his trial.
Radical Islam Now a Mental Disease in the U.S. Court System?This is an interesting article about a murder rampage by a radical islamist that I had not heard of before. The defense, which is the same one being attempted in the Ft. Hood shooting is that the perpetrator was insane at the time.
My head was spinning yesterday, after I cam back from the supermarket, $439 was the total tally, the receipt was over six feet tall.
How to Find Mental Health Care When Money Is Tight IMAGINE this situation. You fall into a deep malaise. Friends say you need help, but you don't have insurance (or the insurance you do have has very limited mental health benefits), and you worry that extra bills will only add to your malaise. So you do nothing.
I am mentally ill. I have chronic, clinical depression and in all likelihood, I'll be on medication for the rest of my life. I am also a compulsive suicide.
Along with my BP meds every day I take 225mg of Effexor every morning, as well as 10mg of Buspar twice a day. To people who know what those medications are for they might think that it means I have a mental illness....and they'd be right. I'm clinically depressed.
Mental health: What's normal what's not - Page 1 - MSN Health & Fitness - DepressionOctober 28, 2009 7:30 AM CST Refreshing to see host MSN latch on to a relatively more "sane" topic from a prestigious, bourgeois institution... Oops. What did I just say ? Well...I see no one chomping at the bit, so I'm getting myself started, when no one else will.
When Parents Are Too Toxic to TolerateThe topic gets little, if any, attention in standard textbooks or in the psychiatric literature, perhaps reflecting the common and mistaken notion that adults, unlike children and the elderly, are not vulnerable to such emotional abuse.
Do the mental health community have good case managers working in their best interests? whom are advocates working in there behalf?
Fight or flight? - Times What really happens to the body in a life-threatening crisis?
Biracial Asian Americans And Mental HealthA new study of Chinese-Caucasian, Filipino-Caucasian, Japanese-Caucasian and Vietnamese-Caucasian individuals concludes that biracial Asian Americans are twice as likely as monoracial Asian Americans to be diagnosed with a psychological disorder.
Communication in relationship: In relationship, the manner how mentally, verbally, physically converse with partner is called communication. Even eye, face and body can reveal what is in mind.
Swiss Psychiatrist Fights Fear with LSDA Swiss Psychiatrist is Offering LSD to Patients to Combat their Fears of Pain and Death
Woman accused of skinning puppy for beltA 23-year-old woman who got a friend to kill her Jack Russell terrier was charged with skinning the puppy to make a belt out of its hide.
David Carradine's Performance on Fox's "Mental" Both Eerie and WonderfulThe author said exactly what I was thinking: this man pulled off a brilliant performance with absolutely ZERO dialogue. There were scenes in which he made not one move - not a blink, not a grimace, NOTHING. Yet the look in his eyes changed drastically as "Dr.
Witness: 'Rockefeller' narcissistic, delusionalLawyers for the man who calls himself Clark Rockefeller began their defense in his kidnapping trial Wednesday with the testimony of a forensic psychologist who said he is "completely deluded."
Findings - Animals Feel Actual Regret?"I think animals do experience regret, as defined as the recognition of a missed opportunity," Dr. Brosnan said.
I was just being my old "House"-addict self, watching a rerun, when the pilot for a new medical series, "Mental" began. I hadn't planned on sitting in front of my TV for another hour, but it was as if the very aroma of "House" was in the air, so I watched.
Generic version of Risperdal gains FDA OK Teva won approval for a generic version of the popular anti-psychotic drug Related stories updated 4:25 p.m. PT, Mon., June. 30, 2008
As "24" begat "Prison Break" and "Vanished" (which did, quickly by the way) and Kidnapped (on NBC)... So did "House" begat "Bones" (the rare exception) and now "Lie To Me" (the jury is still out) and barreling down on us now is "Mental".
Just say "NO" to the Mother's ActThe customer base the psycho-pharmaceutical industry is hoping to corral through passage of the Mothers Act is the more than four million women who give birth in the US each year. That number was 4,317,119 in 2007, according to the CDC.
Missouri Lawmakers begin wrap-up sessionLaw makers in Missouri begin to wrap up legislative session today. Here's their to-do list:
Lately there has been an abundance and proliferation of conversations and discussions on various mental health related issues! The New Orleans, LA area/region called: Orleans Parish was scheduled to close one of their state Psychiatric Hospitals that housed both Children and Adul …
More schools teaching emotional IQ Spring is the time for Ohio and Kentucky students to show what they know on state-mandated exams.
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