Mental Health

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Health Care Reform Keeps Mentally Ill Uninsured

DJ Jaffe | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mental Illness, Health Care Reform, Politics, Mentally Ill, Mental Health, Health Care, Health, Politics News

The largest and neediest group of uninsured Americans could very well be those with mental illness. If Obama really believes in equal health care for all, he should bring this population into the health reform fold.

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Yoga Helps Cancer Survivors Breathe Easier

reuters.com | Posted 11.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Yoga, Mental Health, Health, Cancer, Wellness, Benefits of Yoga, Living News

The brainchild of Dr. Nicole Culos-Reed, a cancer and exercise researcher at the University of Calgary, and Susi Hately, a yoga instructor, Yoga Thriv...

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Spanking Is Bad For Children, Study Says

cnn.com | Elizabeth Landau CNN | Posted 11.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Raising Children, Parenting, Mental Health, Aggression, Relationships, Children, Children's Health, Discipline, Living News

A new study of more than 2,500 toddlers from low-income families found that spanking may have detrimental effects on behavior and mental development....

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Psychotropic Drugs: Parameter Introduced For Children And Adolescents

medicalnewstoday.com | Posted 11.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Mental Health, Children, Health, Psychotropic Drugs, Adolescents, Psychiatric Drugs, Psychology, Children's Health, Medicine, Practice Parameter on the Use of Psychotropic Medication in Children and Adolescents., Living News

The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) is proud to announce its new practice parameter on the use of psychotropic medications...

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Female Alcoholics: Their Secret Lives

wellness.com | Elizabeth Weise | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Alcoholics, Women, Mental Health, Women's Issues, Women's Health, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Alcoholic, Motherhood, Alcohol Abuse, Binge Drinking, Drinking, Addiction & Recovery, Living News

The numbers are troubling: An estimated 17.6 million adults in the USA are either alcoholics or have alcohol problems, according to the National Insti...

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Impending Closure of Denver's Survivors' Center

Pius Kamau | Posted 11.15.2009 | Denver

Read More: Social Services, Immigration, Rape, Mental Health, Asylum, Torture, Denver, Rocky Mountain Survivors' Center, Denver News

How can a center that has been valiantly fighting to mend broken souls from the four corners of the earth end up closing its doors?

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'Long Sleepers' Show Higher Dementia Risk

msn.com | Posted 11.15.2009 | Living

Read More: Dementia, Mental Health, Insomnia, Causes of Dementia, Sleep Deprivation, Sleep Disorders, Sleep, Exhaustion, Living News

Spanish researchers found that among nearly 3,300 older adults they followed for three years, those who slept nine or more hours per day, daytime naps...

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7 Thoughts That Are Bad For You

LiveScience | Posted 11.15.2009 | Living

Read More: Stress, Emotions, Mental Health, Health, Body, Mood, Anxiety, Wellness, Living News

From those with a chill demeanor to the completely frazzled types, mental factors are ultimately tied to physical health. And while a highly neurotic ...

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Best Laid Plans

Rachel Ben-Avi | Posted 11.14.2009 | Living

Read More: National Day of Service, Free Clinic, Health Care Reform, Mental Health, Living News

The situation at the health clinic was unacceptable. Picture people in anxiety panics, people weeping, people contemplating suicide. Weeks? They had to be seen now.

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Autism And Anorexia: What's The Relationship?

Laura Collins Lyster-Mensh | Posted 11.08.2009 | Living

Read More: Controversy, Mental Health, Anorexia, Autism, Aspergers Girls, Aspergers, Asperger's Syndrome, Vaccinations, Living News

Until recently, I admired the autism parent community from afar. Like the parents who awakened and changed the schizophrenia treatment world, parents of autistic children have moved both treatment and public opinion about the disorder almost 180 degrees from where it had been.

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Intensity Is Not The Same Thing As Intimacy--For Addicts Or Anyone Else

Therese Borchard | Posted 10.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Addiction, Drug Addiction, Recovery, Drinking, Alcoholism, Addiction & Recovery, Mental Health, Therese Borchard, Living News

I chase the adrenaline rush, the dopamine high, that is akin to the buzz I get from smoking an entire cigarette in three puffs after staying away from lung rockets for a year or more.

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Yoga Helps Low Back Pain And Depression, Study Says

Psych Central News | Posted 10.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Low Back Pain, Chronic Pain, Pain, Yoga Therapy, Yoga, Depression, Mental Health, Wellness, Living News

Depression is often associated with chronic low back pain as conventional treatment of the pain is modestly successful, at best. A new study suggests...

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Believing Is Seeing, Psychologists Find

medicalnewstoday.com | Posted 10.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Seeing Is Believing, Perception, Psychology, Mental Health, Viewpoint, Living News

An international team of psychologists from the United States, New Zealand and France has found that the way we initially think about the emotions of ...

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Video Gamers at the End of History

Jared Gardner | Posted 09.28.2009 | New York

Read More: Depression, Mental Health, Entertainment, Ghost Busters, Health, Psychology, Video Games, Obesity, Movies, New York News

The new narrative media of video games is making us psychologically damaged goods, whose best hope is that when we die alone, the neighbors will find our body before the dogs.

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Katrina's Children -- Still Struggling

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Education, Mental Health, Storm, Hurricane Katrina, Fema, Families, Child Health, Barack Obama, Politics News

Life is still not back to normal four years after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005.

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Mental Health Consumers Lose Vital Advocate

Sarah E. Jones | Posted 09.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Health Care Reform, Mental Health, Health Care, Ted Kennedy, Patrick-Kennedy-Mental-Health, Rosemary Kennedy, Living News

Kennedy was a key sponsor of the act that required insurance companies to provide equal coverage for mental health care.

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Practical Therapy for Soldiers' Depression

Thomas Scheff | Posted 09.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Lists, Therapy, Depression, Soldiers, Ethiopia, Mental Health, Boy Scouts, New York Times, Time Magazine, Living News

Soldiers, especially male soldiers in or anticipating combat, need time and the confidence to cry, resolve their fears, acknowledge their shame, and deal with their other emotions.

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Health Care: I Hate Everyone, Part 1 in a Series

Nato Green | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Town Hall Debate, Mental Health, Nazis, John Kerry, Health Care Reform, Universal Health Care, Right Wing, Adolf Hitler, Town Hall Meetings, Barack Obama, Politics News

The anti-health care stormtroopers demonstrate that you can get a long way with no argument if you sell it. It seems like the Town Hallers are all seeking revenge on an uninsured ex.

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Mental Health -- Even With Insurance Patients Are On Their Own

Kathleen Reardon | Posted 09.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Parental Rights, Mental Health, Patients, Insurance, Medical Health Negligence, Family Rights, Patients' Rights, Living News

If you have a child with ADHD or Asperger's Syndrome, for example, don't expect to be able to be of much help after he or she turns 18.

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Rogue Detention in Connecticut

Patricia Droney | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Americans With Disabilities Act, John Rowland, Mental Health, Connecticut, Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Service, Health Care, Politics News

By telling my late brother Bill's story, and using my legal and clinical skills to affect public policy decisions like the ones that tragically and negatively affected his life, I will make sure that my brother did not die in vain.

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Tackling Integrated Care Is Key to Health Reform

James R. Knickman | Posted 09.11.2009 | New York

Read More: Health Care Reform, Mental Health, Substance Abuse, Health Reform, New York, Health, New York News

In New York, an initiative is underway to align efforts across the public and private sectors to address integrated care.

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Are Fat People Doormats?

Janice Taylor | Posted 09.07.2009 | Living

Read More: Self-Confidence, Weight Loss Coach, Happiness, Janice Taylor, Mental Health, Health, Weight Loss Motivation, Depression, Wellness, Fat People, Living News

Does the word "namby-pamby" fit you? Fat, thin or regular sized, be brave and take this true/false quiz!

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The New Orleans Mental Health Crisis, Exposed

Harry Shearer | Posted 09.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina, Mental Health, Katrina, Washington Times, Politics News

The Washington Times ran an admirable piece about the post-Katrina mental health mess, yet there is a remarkable lapse: a failure to explain why the disaster happened, why the city was inundated.

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Prescription Drugs: Keep Out of Reach of Teens

Barbara Ficarra | Posted 08.25.2009 | Living

Read More: Prescription Drugs, Addiction, Barbara Ficarra, Mental Health, healthin30, Teens, Addiction & Recovery, Living News

"Pharming" is when teens swap prescription and/or over-the-counter medications and take them all at once, often with alcohol, to get high. This has become a popular and dangerous trend among teens.

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In Reforming Our Health Care System, We'd Be Crazy to Ignore the Mind

Rep. Patrick Kennedy | Posted 08.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Congress, Patrick Kennedy, Mental Health, Politics News

In a country where less than a third of people with mental illnesses get the care they need, the importance of the mental health parity law cannot be understated.

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