Sort by: Most Relevant Publish Date

CHILDHOOD ILLNESS  

My mental illness and why I cannot give up smoking.

During a slightly less invasive time in Hollywood--a lot of celebrities had mental issues as a part of their natural chemistry or from incidents in their personal past. Here's a selected list of ones who battled their problems and mostly won...

What is OCD and how will you know if it affects you? This article is a brief overview of what this mental disorder is, and what the other co-morbid mental disorders are.

How do mental health professionals determine what is wrong with you (diagnosis)? One little book makes it all possible, and you can use it yourself!

The amagydala controls our emotions. Researchers have found that when the amagydala is damaged, it appears to impact our abilities to make choices. They theorize that rather than drugs harming our brains, our brains are wired to respond to drugs.

A tribute to my uncle, who passed away at age 53 after a long battle with throat cancer.

A bachelor's degree can only get you so far in a career in mental health. This article discusses steps in choosing career paths and graduate training programs in mental health-related fields.

Why treat depression with antidepressants and other kind of medication when you can have better results by only exercising and performing regural physical activities?

I have first hand experience dealing with depression and anxiety. My mom rushed into marrying a man who sexually abused me, and my sister. In those days you didn't think about going to counseling for sexual abuse.

Scientists have found two new links to adult depression: smoking and childhood relationships. These two long-term studies have pinpointed direct relationships between these two causes and depression in those studied.

Depression is a mental illness in which a person experiences intense sadness along with a loss of interest in daily activities. The depressive symptoms in adolescents can be difficult to notice because they can be mistaken with normal teen sadness.

Depression is an extremely dehabilitating illness of which millions of Americans suffer the consequences. Psychological control, schemas, and self-discrepancies are processes that are relevant in theories regarding Depression.

The myths of mental illness, that mentally ill people are unkempt, unpredictable, violent and dangerous, the results of these myths, the stigma and how we can take a step toward a new attitude.

Deconstructs the rise of mental illness in America, and examines causes other than a general decline in American mental Health. Provides interesting facts and statistics about mental illness at home and abroad, and offers opinions from several experts.

The general public should by now be able to accept that there are many people with a mental illness and at any time it could affect their family.

There are numerous reasons as to why mental illness goes untreated, but the effects of neglecting it can be devastating in a variety of ways.

Deep Brain Stimulation Now Being Used to Treat Mental Illness

Several studies have suggested that writers or people with strong creative capabilities are more likely than others to suffer from a class of mental illnesses.

Mental illness is found in just about almost every household,or either you know someone who has this illiness,you just don't know it because...

How you cope with a mental illness can greatly impact the overall quality of life. A brief guide to coping with Bipolar Disorder.

According to the Treatment Advocacy Center, the new Senate bill 234, as signed by Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, will help improve the state's mental illness treatment law.

A unique perspective on mental illness. This is a potentially controversial piece.

Sometimes, teens can be stricken with mental illness and have trouble adjusting to real life. A look at the situation and getting them help through medicine, nutrition and faith.

Is internet addiction real? Do you spend too much time online? Could you be addicted to the internet?

If you are applying for any type of financial service, including life insurance, and you suffer from a mental illness, the underwriter may wish to utilize the DLAY life expectancy table.

The effects of an undiagnosed, untreated mental illness is devastating to families. Often families don't even realize that the family dynamic has been drastically affected until it is far beyond repair.

This is an article describing what it's like to live secretly with a mental illness.

Articles discusses the stigma of mental illness today in America and why it shouldn't provide someone from receiving treatment.

What to do when a family member is diagnosed with severe mental illness.

Bipolar is a mental illness that can break families apart.

There are many societal misconceptions of mental illness. A particularly extensive circulation of gmythsh concerns depression, considering the prevalence of this illness and the considerable influence it has on the culture of this nation.

Mental Illness is a hot topic among the media. Depression, ADD/ADHD, and Eating disorders are just 3 of the mental disorders that affect today's youth. But what do these diagnoses really mean, anyway, and are they accurate?

A look at mental illness and how to cope with it as a patient or as someone who is "normal". Personal outlook and opinions.

If someone is suffering from mental illness, should they be held responsible for actions that is or could be considered unlawful, for instance murder?

Hurricane Katrina has affected thousands of people, some with mental illnesses.

Mental illness can strike almost anyone, anywhere. The term is used to describe almost any form of illness that causes a disruption of a person's behavior. No matter what the course or cause, it's important to know where to turn to for help.

This diet may help fight mental illness, cancer, hypertension (because it is high in potassium and low in sodium), heart disease, PKU, obesity (because it is high in fiber), and other diseases. I do not reject other treatments such as surgery.

Some people believe you can recover from mental illness . Is recovery possible, or will it always be a factor to consider while learning how to manage mental illness.

This article aims to change the misconceptions of mental illness.

Some orthomolecular theories of mental illness involve food allergies. My own theory is that there is an allergic reaction to protein because too many amino acids are flooding the cells.

In the latter part of the Middle Ages, insane asylums were created to take the mentally ill people off of the streets. Actually these asylums were in reality prisons and not treatment centers.

In the article, "Mental Illness: How Much is Genetic?", the author makes the statement, "As they had for the bipolar disorder, advances in molecular biology also stimulated scientists to undertake linkage studies.

There is a logical explanation for mental illness. Unfortunately this explanation is not simple. It is affected by diet.

Mental illness is not a joke, it is devastating, life threatening, and carries a horrible stigma that those of us with even the most mild forms of it are afraid to speak up because we don't want to be looked at differently.

Maybe despite a mental illness, you function well enough living alone since your symptoms don't really affect anyone else for the most part. But once you make the decision to invite someone into your home, please know that your illness becomes a part of their life as well.

Words can hurt, especially for those struggling with mental illness. Things you say to a person struggling with mental illness can profoundly affect him or her. Sensitivity and consideration go a long way when dealing with a mentally ill individual.

This article describes life with mental illness from a mental health client's point of view.

Nutrition can be used to fight cancer and mental illness. The diets are similar.

There have been mental illness novels written on the subject of strained mother daughter relationships. The way the mental illness novel STOP LOOKING AT ME! by J.Gail touches on the issue is raw, gritty, and painfully realistic.

Tryptophan floods the brain cells in mental illness. Patients have taken tryptophan and have gotten worse according to several studies.

There is massive evidence that mental illness is caused by defective carbohydrate metabolism in the brain.

Britney Spears has a mental illness. She has been diagnosed as being bi-polar. I think we all knew that by her actions the last couple years.

This is a common childhood disease not to be confused with foot-and-mouth disease or hoof-and-mouth disease.

Psychological disorders affect our society in many ways and are more common than most would believe. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, An estimated 26.2% of Americans age 18 and older suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year.

A dual disorder takes place when a person is affected by both chemical dependency and an emotional or psychiatric illness.

Menninger's assessment takes 2 to 3 weeks and is for those not making progress in their treatment, wanting another opinion, needing a thorough psychiatric work-up before entering into a treatment plan, or who are referred by another professional.

Manic-depressive illness and creative accomplishment share certain non cognitive features like the ability to function well on a few hours of sleep.

The study is based on a sample size of near 1000 people who agreed to do initial and follow-up surveys in regard with their experiences related to the Katrina natural disaster.

An analysis of the book 9 Highland Road, which tells the story of a halfway house for the mentally ill.

Things take a turn for the bizarre as Dr. Phil steps in, Britney is hospitalized, loses custody of her children and the judgments pour in.

I really believe the paparazzi will not be satisfied till they have sufficiently driven this young distraught woman to extreme actions, including death

This is to tell you more about NAMI, an organization to help the mentally ill and their families.

In 1962 Friedhoff & van Winkle discovered a chemical that is only found in schizophrenics. This author feels that this chemical causes abnormal brain glucose metabolism.

With all of the recent publicity surrounding Britney Spears many Americans are too busy gossiping and reading tabloids to notice the real issue at hand here: Britney Spears is mentally ill...

The Schizophrenic life journey I am traveling with my son is frightening and forever changing. His amazing ability to cope and will to live, however, in spite of the suffering, has confirmed for me that the greatest of all healing powers is love.

What is exactly Schizophrenia and why do people act the way they do? And what can be done to fix it?

Yellow Journalism supposedly died with the "Remember the Maine" battle cry, but when it comes to the recent shootings, are press outlets still engaging in it to boost ratings and circulation?

They judge you from the outside not knowing what they do.

Your employer is required under the Americans with Disabilities Act to provide reasonable accommodations for limitations caused directly by your disability.

America is the most religious country of those studied in the developed world. America also has the biggest problems in terms of things like homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, STD infection rates, teen pregnancy, and abortion.

Most people need professional help when applying for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) benefits.

This article delves into the mind of a young woman with schizoaffective psychosis.

This article describes in easy to read-and-understand terminology. It gives an overview of the symptoms that are attached to both aspects of this disorder.

How many more will have to die before we choose to fight?

This is the story of my own battle with mental illness and the job I lost because of it.

How a person's serious mental illness is often perceived by others as threatening.

A new report asserts that approximately half of all patients with terminal or advanced cancer suffer with poor mental health.

Mental healthy is a growing field in writing because so many are afflicted. This article explains in short what can be done with an article on mental health, from depression to mental illness.

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) announced on September 26, 2007 that they will award nine grants to local mental health agencies in order to reduce chronic homelessness among individuals with mental illness.

Raising awareness and combatting the stigma of mental illness.

More than any other generation, teens and college students today could be the most diagnosed generation in history with mental illness.

What's wrong with Britney Spears? Some reports are saying she's mentally ill. But what mental illness does she suffer from?

The Mental Health Parity Act, if passed, would impose increased government regulation upon insurance firms by mandating identical coverage for patients of "mental illness" as exists for those of conventional ailments. This essay presents arguments against such a bill.

Our culture tends to value extroversion and, consequently, many people are prone to view its opposite, introversion, as an illness or mark of a lesser being. It is neither! These are variables of temperament, not diagnoses.

Mental disorders, which may be devastating at times, can also be diagnosed and treated successfully, along with our physical ailments.

Insurance companies enforce too many rules,concerning mental health issues and how counseling and services are offered.

Bipolar disorder, or manic depression, is a tough mental impairment to live with. I know that from experience. However, I'm not the only one who has to deal with it, or has ever had to do so.

Involuntary commitment is an extreme remedy for imminent patient risk of harm to self or others. It is a dangerous, traumatic experience, not in the best interest of persons with severe persistent mental illness (SPMI).

National Mental Health Screening has been around since 1991. Though, medical doctors agree mental health affects physical well being, it is viewed as a second tier option. Now, it has been made a lot more simple. Are you ready to take the step?

Information on the mental condition known as factitious disorder

Many experts agree that instead of spending so much time and effort on the treatment of mental illness, it would be better to concentrate on providing for normal emotional development. Healthy living will create this normal emotional development.

One in four hospital stays involves a patient with a mental health or substance abuse disorder.

Is there a way of quantifying just how much psychotherapy is too much psychotherapy? The battlefield lines have been drawn, and what is at stake is the mental stability of a nation.

When you are not feeling well you may think that you must have a touch of a virus or a bug. However sometimes when you when this is occurring it is not as a result of a physical origin but is linked to an emotional or mental issue.

Cinematherapy is another name for using movies as a therapeutic technique to improve mental well-being. This type of self-help therapy can be done at home or on a Saturday night at the local movie theater.

William Faulkner's short story, A Rose for Emily, addresses the growing need for better care for mental patients in America during the early 1900's.

The Mental Health/Mental Retardation (MHMR) Agency of Tarrant County in Fort Worth, TX has been flooded with new patients seeking assistance who have relocated from the effects of Hurricane Katrina.

While many believe that those with mental disorders should be treated on the same level of treatment as those with physical disorders, not much as resulted of this argument.