June 19, 2013

Edition: U.S.

Mental Illness

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Eye Movements May Reveal Common Brain Disorders, Scientists Say

| Nadja Popovich | Posted 06.18.2013 | Science

Eye-tracking has become the tech trend du jour. Advertisers use data on where you look and when to better capture your attention. Designers employ it...

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Fountain Gallery Raises Funds, Boosts Artists with Mental Illness

Jim Luce | Posted 06.17.2013 | New York

It was raining. Torrents. But the atmosphere was anything but damp at a recent fundraising wingding where I joined in a high-spirited soiree featuring...

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Attending My 30th High School Reunion as a Diagnosed Psychotic

Robert David Jaffee | Posted 06.16.2013 | Healthy Living

Read More: Mental Illness, Depression, Andrew Levy, Psychosis, Bart Giamatti, Hamlet, Hotspur, Healthy Living News

Mental illness, like Hamlet, who may or may not be the only sane person in the play, is mysterious and paradoxical. And psychosis works the way nightmares do, by metaphor and symbolism. Delusions often stand in for something else.

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Yoga: How We Help People With Disabilities Gain Access to Integrative Therapies

Rob Schware | Posted 06.13.2013 | Healthy Living

This is an interview with Crystal Hinton, who started her yoga service career caring for her younger sister, Chanda, when Chanda moved to Colorado in 2000. A shooting accident at the age of 9 left Chanda paralyzed, a C/6 injury.

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I Lost My Wife: Our Team Was Not There Anymore

MotherWoman | Posted 06.12.2013 | Impact

By Jonathan Polgar I'm a husband and a father, 2 jobs I've looked forward to my whole life. My wife, Jennifer Dorfield is self-possessed and funny a...

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Brought to You by the Mentally Ill

Melody Moezzi | Posted 06.12.2013 | Media

Read More: Mental Illness, Military Suicides, Depression, Bipolar Disorder, Mental Illness and Violence, Mental Health, Gun Control, Media, Mental Illness Stigma, Barack Obama, Guns, Media News

As one of the roughly 60 million Americans living with a mental illness, I was happy to hear President Obama highlight the issue at last week's National Conference on Mental Health. But that's not what many of my colleagues in the media picked up on.

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Shouldn't Mothers With Mental Illness Have The Chance To "Have It All," Too?

Joanne Nicholson, Ph.D. | Posted 06.17.2013 | Impact

For some slice of American women who are mothers, "having it all" conjures up notions of marriage, a family, a professional position, a home in a safe neighborhood with a decent school system and opportunities to live a better life down the road. For women with psychiatric conditions, life is a different struggle. But with the right support, mothers and almost every person with mental illness can succeed.

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The One Thing All New Mothers Need

MotherWoman | Posted 06.11.2013 | Impact

Read More: Psychiatry, Therapy, Mental Health, Maternity, Working Mothers, Motherwoman, Impact News, Motherhood, Psychology, Maternal Health, Mental Illness Stigma, Mental Illness, Ppd, Family Counseling, Moms, Therapists, Parents-Moms, Working Moms, Impact News

By Jennifer Shiao Page "We're in This Together, Yo!" That's the name we gave to our group. We met as new parents, wandering into a hospital conferenc...

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A Is for....

Janine Francolini | Posted 06.06.2013 | Impact

Awareness! And Awareness is what we have been focusing on this past month, as President Obama signed a proclamation declaring May as National Mental Health Awareness Month (the first president to do so!)

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Self-Love and Self-Awareness Are Not Just Words

MotherWoman | Posted 06.06.2013 | Impact

By Kathy Morelli You'll experience a lot of changes in your personal life during the nine months of pregnancy. Everything from your emotions to your ...

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What's New From the White House Conference on Mental Health

Ross Szabo | Posted 06.06.2013 | Healthy Living

On Monday, President Obama opened the second White House Conference on Mental Health with a meaningful plea to end the stigma surrounding mental illness and bring these issues out of the shadows.

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Mass Murderers on Trial Are Sane

Robert David Jaffee | Posted 06.06.2013 | Politics

Read More: Mental Illness, James Holmes, Nidal Malik Hasan, Fort Hood, Robert Bales, Piers Morgan, Mass Murders, Cnn, Politics News

While there are some mass murderers who are mentally ill, the vast majority are simply angry, frustrated, violent, young men. They have been with us since the beginning of time, and until we implement stronger nationwide gun-control laws they are likely to commit more atrocities in the future.

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But At Least You have a Healthy Baby: Traumatic Birth and Maternal Mental Health

MotherWoman | Posted 06.05.2013 | Impact

By Catharine McDonald The title line to this article is one I have overheard many a times---always conscious not to use it myself, this phrase is a c...

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Hindsight is 20/20: Taking Personal PPD Experiences and Helping Other New Moms

MotherWoman | Posted 06.06.2013 | Impact

By Ivy Shih Leung Not every pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum experience is blissful. I should know. I had a bumpy road to motherhood complete w...

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A Kinder, Braver Mental Health World

Cynthia Germanotta | Posted 06.03.2013 | Impact

We believe there is a need for a new narrative, a new strategy, and new tools to construct more inviting and welcoming pathways into mental health treatment. The millenials and younger generation will drive badly needed "new rules" on de-stigmatizing mental illness.

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Inmates With Serious Mental Illness Kept In Solitary Confinement For Years

AP | Posted 06.01.2013 | Crime

HARRISBURG, Pa. -- A federal civil rights investigation has concluded that a state prison in western Pennsylvania kept inmates with serious mental ill...

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How Yoga Can Become a Game-changer in Combatting Eating Disorders

Rob Schware | Posted 05.30.2013 | Healthy Living

"Downward dog certainly didn't cure my eating disorder, but the practice did teach me how to relate to my body in a more compassionate way."

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Perinatal OCD and Intrusive Thoughts: A Troublesome Secret to Many

MotherWoman | Posted 05.30.2013 | Impact

By Catharine McDonald This blog was inspired by a dear friend of mine (who shall remain nameless) that shared her very personal story after reading ...

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Grief and the DSM: A Brief Q&A

Kenneth J. Doka, M.Div., Ph.D. | Posted 05.29.2013 | Healthy Living

Read More: Mental Illness, Dsm 5, Bereavement, Depression, Anxiety, Grief, Death, Mental Health, Healthy Living Health News, Healthy Living News

In academic and clinical circles, there has long been a concern with differentiating between grief -- seen as a normal transitional experience -- and more complicated reactions to loss.

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Just Like My Mother

Catherine Menta | Posted 05.29.2013 | Healthy Living

After that night we began our long process of rebuilding. I had to get to know my mother through fresh eyes -- eyes not clouded with resentment. What I learned is that my mother has the purest heart.

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Does This Affect How Women React To Truamatic Events?

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.28.2013 | Women

Read More: Mental Illness, Women's Health, Sunjeev Kamboj, Female Hormones, Ovulation Hormones, Women and Hormones, Women and Mental Illness, Ovulation Cycle, Women News

Women's hormone levels can affect their reactions to stressful events -- and how much they think about those events in the following days, according t...

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The Search for Mental Illness and Addiction in the Brain, Part III: The DSM-5 War Over What Being Human Means

Stanton Peele | Posted 05.28.2013 | Healthy Living

Insel represents a crucial American school of thought -- by far the dominant one in the U.S. today -- that equates the future of mental health with the brain, pure and simple. This school of thought is fundamentally wrong, has always been wrong, will always be wrong.

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Medications and Mental Health - Fifty Shades of Gray

MotherWoman | Posted 05.28.2013 | Impact

By Kathy Morelli Medications and mental health: an issue with fifty shades of gray. As a therapist, I deal with people's thoughts and feelings about ...

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SAMHSA Slammed by Congress... And for Good Reason

DJ Jaffe | Posted 05.24.2013 | Politics

The problems preceded sequestration. Several representatives noted that sequestration makes it more imperative, rather than less to focus SAMHSA resources on the most seriously ill.

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MotherWoman Saved My Life. You Can Help Save a Mom's Life Too.

MotherWoman | Posted 05.23.2013 | Impact

MotherWoman saved my life, my identity and my motherhood. MotherWoman was my missing piece, the place where I found myself and was given permission to...

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