Large Bank Collapse Projected In US By Former IMF Chief
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The worst of the global financial crisis is yet to come and a large U.S. bank will fail in the next few months as the world's b...
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The worst of the global financial crisis is yet to come and a large U.S. bank will fail in the next few months as the world's b...
Bruce E. Levine | Posted 08.13.2008 | Living
While psychotherapy may not help all depressed people, the loss of psychiatrists practicing psychotherapy means the loss of basic common sense in psychiatry about depression.
Shira Yael | Posted 08.08.2008 | Living
If "Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness," than I have become temporarily less than human. Work is where I become who I am. Until then, there is the womb of my bedroom.
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 08.07.2008 | Politics
While our administration has done little and Congress not much more to get the oil monkey off our backs, we have Paris Hilton proposing enlisting industry, labor and government to a higher calling.
Gordon Marino | Posted 08.06.2008 | Entertainment
For all of their fast cars and stock options, depression is usually waiting for retiring athletes in the parking lot. Favre is wise enough not to cut himself off from a rare source of fellow feeling before his time.
Irene S. Levine | Posted 07.29.2008 | Living
Yes, there are some cases when close friends need to cut a little slack. Could it be that your friendship feels burdensome and painful because your friend is depressed?
Bruce E. Levine | Posted 07.24.2008 | Living
Instead of viewing depression as either a character defect or a biochemical defect, depression is better seen as a strategy for shutting down overwhelming pain.
Footnoted | Michelle Leder | Posted 07.24.2008 | Business
While some people continue to debate whether or not we're actually in a recession, Apple (AAPL) went a step further in the 10Q it filed yesterday, usi...
Liz Spikol | Posted 07.11.2008 | Politics
As a mental health journalist and someone who suffers with bipolar disorder, if there's one thing I know, it's how to solve a "mental" crisis.
Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics
While President Bush continues to toss around such euphemisms as "rough patch" and "tough times," most Americans have clearly felt the effects of a recession for the past few months.
Amy Swift | Posted 07.02.2008 | Living
No one can ever know what's behind suicide. It's a great mystery; a tragic and wasteful one. But we can build communities of people who serve to support and sustain in the high times as well as the low times.
beliefnet.com | Therese J. Borchard | Posted 06.30.2008 | Living
My therapist helped me to build a personalized "toolbox": a list of a dozen depression busters to direct me toward mental health, and an emergency lif...
Dr. Tian Dayton | Posted 06.25.2008 | Living
We have to move to activate the "feel good" body chemicals that are built into us as nature's mood stabilizers and mood elevators.
AP | NATE JENKINS | Posted 06.20.2008 | Entertainment
LINCOLN, Neb. — Funny man and former talk show host Dick Cavett came home to talk about depression, what he called "the worst agony devised for ...
Dr. Michael J. Breus | Posted 06.18.2008 | Living
If you suffer from chronic insomnia and have adolescent kids, they could be at a higher risk not only for insomnia themselves, but also for suicidal behavior and for using drugs that induce sleep (like hypnotics).
Danny Schechter | Posted 06.16.2008 | Business
The US does not have energy independence or, for that matter, financial independence. Why? Partly because we live as if we are an island empire in an interdependent world.
Doug Bremner | Posted 06.13.2008 | Living
The clinical trials of anti-smoking drug Chantix excluded people with mental disorders, but smoking is increased in this population, and these people are obviously at increased risk of suicidality.
Dr. Tian Dayton | Posted 06.12.2008 | Living
The science behind just how and why exercise can help to reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression has been a much studied topic over the last two dec...
Caroline Presno | Posted 05.16.2008 | Living
I'm seeimg an interesting trend in my clients during their therapy sessions -- if there were actual diagnoses for this trend, we might use terms like "election mania" or "post-election disorder."
Nathaniel Bach | Posted 05.07.2008 | Home
Psychology may be too "elite" for the new Clintons, but it seems clear they're more than midway through the five classic stages of grieving: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance.
Elissa Altman | Posted 05.03.2008 | Living
Where arugula and iceberg used to be the politically defining culinary bellwethers of choice (you figure out which party goes which way), it's now, alas, salt.
Doug Bremner | Posted 05.02.2008 | Living
A collective howl is going up amongst women over at medications.com over the birth control pill, Yasmin.
Deirdre Imus | Posted 04.22.2008 | Living
If most childhood diseases are preventable...why are so many on the rise? Because toxic chemicals are everywhere and not enough attention is being given to prevention.
Doug Bremner | Posted 04.09.2008 | Living
It's bad enough that it can drive you crazy trying to get your prescription medications filled, but now it looks like sometimes your prescription meds themselves can make you, well... nuts.
Blake Fleetwood | Posted 04.03.2008 | Business
If Soros is right and foreigners lose confidence in the U.S. economy, they will want their money back, the dollar will fall, and foreign investments will tumble.
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Reuters | Posted 08.19.2008 | Business