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Ill. Woman Competes In Beauty Pageant To Fight Stigma Of Mental Illness

Lemont Patch | Posted 03.01.2012

Read More: Greatest-Person-of-the-Day, National Institute of Mental Health, Paul Timm, Mrs. Illinois America, Manic Depression, Illinois, Bipolar Disorder, Tammy Timm, Beauty Pageants, Impact News

When Lemont resident Tammy Timm competed last year in the Mrs. Illinois America pageant, everything had to be perfect—the dress, the hair and even h...

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Are Addiction And Mental Illness Really Brain Diseases?

Stanton Peele | Posted 08.16.2011

Read More: Addiction, Anti-Psychotic Drugs, Mental Illness, Addiction Disease Model, Mental Illness Brain Model, Mental Health, Addiction Brain, Addiction Brain Disease, Anti-Depressants, National Institute of Mental Health, Marcia Angell, Nora Volkow, New York Review of Books, Healthy Living News
Stanton Peele

That there is something inherent in the person to be found there -- in mental illness and addiction -- is received wisdom, not empirical fact. The belief derives from the assumption that these phenomena are medical diseases.

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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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Logic, Guns and Mental Illness

Gloria Duffy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Major Depression, Mental Disorder, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Public-Policy, Public Discourse, Anxiety Disorders, Suicide, Bi-Polar Disorder, National Institute of Mental Health, Columbine Killings, Personality Disorders, Guns, Mental Illness, Tucson Shooting, Schizophrenia, Commonwealth Club, Virginia Tech Massacre, Jared Loughner, Anti-Social Disorders, Gun Control, Automatic Weapons, Second Amendment, Politics News
Gloria Duffy

The logic is absolutely clear -- the more guns in private hands, the more people will be shot and killed each year in the US. The more guns in private hands, the greater the number will be of mentally unstable individuals with guns.

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Mental Health Kills the Mentally Ill

DJ Jaffe | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mentally Ill, Mental Health, Fuller Torrey, Madpower, Involuntary Commitment, National Institute of Mental Health, Judy Chamberlin, Bipolar, Involuntary Treatment, NYS OMH, Recipients, Nimh, Mental Illness, Bipolar Disorder, Tac, Schizophrenia, Madnation, NY Treatment Advocacay Coalition, Consumers, Assisted Outpatient Treatmentr, Kendra's Law, Aot, Treatment Advocacy Cente, Impact News
DJ Jaffe

In 1955 there were 340 public psychiatric beds available per 100,000 U.S. citizens. By 2005, the number plummeted to a staggering 17 beds per 100,000 persons.

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5 Ways to Find Out if You Have ADHD

New Harbinger | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Health, Attention Deficit Disorder, Living News, Adhd, Childhood, Add, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Mental Health, National Institute of Mental Health, Psychology, Healthy Living News
New Harbinger

You may be wondering if you have ADD. Perhaps you have difficulties staying on task and tend to interrupt others, among other difficulties. Here are some ways that may help you find out.

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Bruco Strong Eagle Eastwood Could Not Afford Treatment For Mental Illness

Posted 05.25.2011

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KDVR in Denver reports that Bruco Strong Eagle Eastwood, the suspect in Monday's shooting spree at Deer Creek elementary school in Littleton, had soug...

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Where is Mental Health in Health Care Reform?

Lloyd I. Sederer, MD | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Depression, Mental Health Homes, Mental Health, Morbidity, Screening, Health Care Reform, National Institute of Mental Health, Mortality, Binge Drinking, Substance Abuse, Diabetes, Heart Disease, Cancer, Health Care, Care Paths, Politics News
Lloyd I. Sederer, MD

Have you heard a word about mental health in the deluge of discussions that populate health reform communications on TV, radio and newspapers? Have you seen any mention in Federal legislative offerings?

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Can You Trust Your Psychiatrist?

Lloyd I. Sederer, MD | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Clinical Trials, Psychiatry, Pharmaceutical Industry, Zyprexa, Eli Lilly, National Alliance for Mental Illness, National-Mental-Health-Association, Psychiatric Drugs, National Institute of Mental Health, Advertising-Industry, US Justice Department, Healthy Living News
Lloyd I. Sederer, MD

If you can't trust big Pharma with its capacity to influence doctors then how can you trust your psychiatrist?

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One Enlists, One Graduates

Mona Gable | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wounded Veterans, Iraq War, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Military, Rand Study, National Institute of Mental Health, Recruiters, Military Recruiting, Ptsd, Politics News
Mona Gable

My son's friend enlisted in the Army because he was lost. He joined because in an economy with few good-paying jobs and little opportunity, it was the best future he could envision for himself.

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Glad To Be Mad: Mentally Ill Start 'Mad Pride' Movement (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Elyn Saks, Elyn Saks Schizophrenia, National Institute of Mental Health, Bipolar Disorder Treatment, Electroconvulsive Therapy, Bonkersfest, Video, The Icarus Project, Mad Pride Cabaret, Mad Rights, Electroshock Therapy, Schizophrenia, The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness, Schizophrenia Treatment, MindFreedom International, Elyn Saks Mental Illness, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness, Extreme Mental States, Liz Spikol Bipolar Disorder, Freedom Center, Radical Mental Health Collective, Mental Illness, Bipolar Disorder, Mad Pride March, Elyn Saks the Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness, Liz Spikol Blog, Liz Spikol the Trouble With Spikol, Mad Movement, Liz Spikol, Mental Illness Advocacy, Healthy Living News

Yesterday the New York Times explored the burgeoning "mad pride" movement, which aims to fight the stigma of serious mental illness like schizophrenia...

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Post-War Veteran Suicides May Exceed Combat Deaths: U.S.

Bloomberg | Avram Goldstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: National Institute of Mental Health, Afghanistan War, Warwire, Veterans Mental Health Care, Combat Deaths, Veteran Suicides, Iraq War, Veteran Suicides Study, Politics News

The number of suicides among veterans of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan may exceed the combat death toll because of inadequate mental health care, the U...

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