Mental Disorders

Overcoming Stigma and Improving Mental Health in America

Susan Blumenthal, M.D. | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Mental Illness, Mental Health, Mental Disorders, Depression, Community Care, Public Health, Mental Health Care, Healthy Living Health News, Mental Health Month, Community Mental Health, Mental Health Services, Healthy Living News

This May marks the 63rd anniversary of Mental Health Month, but the problem of mental illness requires greater attention as a major 21st-century public health challenge.

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The Case of Norway's Anders Behring Breivik: Where Lies Madness?

Gail A. Hornstein | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Violence, Mental Illness, Mental Disorders, Psychiatry, Muslims, Mass Murder, Anders Behring Breivik, College News

Anders Breivik claims to be part of a broader network called the Knights Templar, but police have not located any other members. If they did, would his actions appear less pathological? Would he then be seen as part of an organization rather than a madman?

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Does Depression Exist?

Eric Maisel, Ph.D. | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Mental Disorders, Psychotherapy, Depression, Noimetic Psychology, Mental Health, Antidepressants, Sadness, Healthy Living News

If you call your sadness, irritability, loneliness, disappointments, and overwhelm "the mental disorder of depression," does calling all that pain make it "the mental disorder of depression"?

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America Is Over Diagnosed and Over Medicated

Allen Frances | Posted 03.10.2012

Read More: Mental Disorders, Dsm-Iv, Prescription Drug Abuse, Drug Addiction, Drug Abuse, Prescription Abuse, Science News

Americans are taking too much medicine, often casually and unnecessarily prescribed by the wrong people for the wrong reasons, and causing lots of needless harm.

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Psychiatry And Modern Science: Perspectives On The DSM

HuffingtonPost.com | Cara Santa Maria | Posted 01.04.2012

Read More: Psychiatry, Mental Disorders, Mental Illness, Psychodynamics, Talk Nerdy to Me, Freud, Diagnostics, Science, Psychology, Skepticism, Dsm, Robert Spitzer, Education News

The DSM is the go-to manual for diagnostic criteria of a wide range of mental disorders, but some question it's validity and reliability.

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Are American Kids More Likely To Have ADHD?

www.nytimes.com | Posted 12.13.2011

Read More: Americans Adhd, Mental Disorders, Adhd, Diagnosing Adhd, Add, ADHD Kids, Parents News

Whether you call it hypochondria or American exceptionalism, the numbers are plain: Americans lead the world in diagnoses of mental health problems. ...

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Is Focusing On 'Normal' Making Us Unhealthy?

Therese Borchard | Posted 11.14.2011

Read More: Mental Disorders, Healthy Living Health News, Healthy Living Mind, Mental Disorders and Treatment, Explaining Mental Disorders, Psychological Disorders, Causes of Mental Disorders, Abundance of Mental Disorders, Healthy Living News

"Why are there so many disorders today?" Those seven words, or a variation of them, surface a few times a week.

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7 Bizarre Brain Disorders You've Probably Never Heard Of

The Huffington Post | Jordan K. Turgeon | Posted 08.24.2011

Read More: Mental Disorders, Healthy Living Health News, Bizarre Brain Disorders, Brain Conditions, Brain Disorders, Mental Conditions, Weird Brain Disorders, Healthy Living News

A hand that spontaneously buttons and unbuttons your shirt against your will. The inability to recognize your own mother’s face. The belief that you...

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Advice For Those With A Loved One With Mental Illness

Lloyd I. Sederer, MD | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mental Illness, Mental Health, Mental Illness Relationship, Mental Health in the Family, Mental Health Issues, Mental Disorders, People With Bipolar Disorder, Help for Mental Illness, Mental Illness in the Family, Mental Illness Family, Home News

Every family (and friends and co-workers) with a member who has a mental illness encounters the same formidable problems. These families ask the same critical question, "What should I do"? I usually begin by saying four things.

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Study Finds Over Half A Million U.S. Teens With Eating Disorders

AP | By LINDSEY TANNER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mental Disorders, Depression, Anorexia, National Institute of Mental Health, Eating Disorders, Binge Eating Disorder, Anxiety, Bulimia, US News, Archives of General Psychiatry, Suicide Attempts, Home News

CHICAGO -- More than half a million U.S. teens have had an eating disorder but few have sought treatment for the problem, government research shows. ...

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Should You Divorce Someone Who's Suicidal?

Vicki Larson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mental Disorders, Suicide, Marriage, Caretaker, Depression, Bipolar Disorder, Mentally Ill, Divorce, Divorce News

Recently, a popular Northern California high school teacher left a cryptic message for her students and then disappeared. She was found dead a few day...

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Tony Award-Winning 'Next To Normal' Wins Denver Audiences

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Alice Ripley, Ellie Caulkins Opera House, Curt Hansen, Next to Normal, Mental Disorders in Theater, Tony Awards, Emma Hunton, Broadway, Brian Yorkey, The Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Musicals, New York Musical Theatre Festival, Preston Sadleir, Denver Around Town, Pulitzer Prize, Mental Disorders, Asa Somers, Jeremy Kushnier, 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Bi-Polar, Tom Kitt, Feeling Electric, Off-Broadway, Video, Denver News

The hilarious, insane and frightening musical portrayal about living with mental illness has finally made it to Denver. Next To Normal leaves out th...

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What Would You Call It?

Katrina Alcorn | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Mental Disorders, Insomnia, Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique, Nervous Breakdown, Panic Attacks, Healthy Living News

I don't know when I decided to call it a nervous breakdown. Some can't even have this conversation because it would mean looking at things they're trying not to see. I know how they feel because two years ago, I was one of them.

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Happily Divorced Ever After

Heather Sellers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mental Disorders, Friendship, Face Recognition, Ex Husband, Marriage, Antiques, Divorce, Divorce News

Uprooting my deepest fear -- that I was mentally ill -- turned out to uproot my marriage. I discovered I literally hadn't known who I was when Dave and I wed. I didn't recognize myself, deeply.

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When do I tell a new friend about my emotional baggage?

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 11.17.2011

QUESTION Dear Irene: I have difficulty making new friends because of all of the heavy stuff I have to reveal to them. I've tried two basic approach...

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Glenn Close's Mental Illness PSA Wins Silver Telly Award

Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Mental Disorders, Mental Illness, Counseling, Glenn Close, Mental Health, Behavioral Health, Mental Health Services, Video, Healthy Living News

The anti-stigma campaign featuring Glenn Close, her bipolar sister Jessie and schizophrenic nephew Calen recently won a Silver Telly Award, which hono...

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What's Your Attitude Towards Mental Illness?

Lloyd I. Sederer, MD | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Mental Disorders, Mental Illness, Mental Health, Personal Health, Health, Lloyd Sederer, Mental Illness Depression, Healthy Living News

A CDC study documents that the mentally ill are apt to believe that treatment works -- but cannot bear the stigma associated with undergoing it.

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Late Bloomers?

Lloyd I. Sederer, MD | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Mental Disorders, Mental Illness, Cezanne, Mental Health, Daniel Defoe, Robinson-Crusoe, Sigmund Freud, Malcolm Gladwell, Mark Twain, Henri Matisse, Healthy Living News

Recovery, making a life of contribution despite and with a mental illness, is about hope and belief and patience and persistence.

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A Cry for Help

Beth Feldman | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Mental Disorders, Fetal-Alcohol-Syndrome, Reactive Attachment Disorder, Public Education Learning Disabilities, Emotional Trauma, Learning Disabilities, Special-Education, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, Special Needs, Special Needs Education, Healthy Living News

The school's decision about whether to put my son in special education programming has nothing to do with education and everything to do with the bottom line.

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Unfit for the Presidency: John McCain and His Personal IED

Gary Cohan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mental Disorders, John McCain, Alzheimer's Disease, Government Bailout, Economic Crisis, Election 2008, Iraq, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Ied, Rage, Impulsivity, Neophyte, Politics News

One thought that keeps entering my medically-trained mind is a strange coincidence of acronyms that may explain why John McCain is psychologically unfit to be our next President.

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Overmedication Nation

The New York Times | Judith Warner | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Mental Illness, Mental Disorders, Big Pharma, Pharmaceutical Companies, Pharmaceutical Industry, Overmedication, Overmedication and Mental Illness, Medication, Healthy Living News

This storyline persists despite the fact that government research has repeatedly shown that most adults and children with mental health issues don't g...

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