Daily life often requires us to quickly size up the emotions of those around us. People are pretty good at judging whether a crowd is friendly, but anxious people may be worse at this task, a new study finds.
Building strong leadership, creating care equity and looking outside the health care industry should all play vital roles on the future of comprehensive mental illness care policies, according to a national policy advocate who spoke on Thursday to a group of Montana mental health care professionals.
There is no question that women
are juggling more than ever these days and that burden can lead to a lot of stress. Rosy Gil knows that first-hand.
The clock struck 1 AM and Felice Herrig stared at her clock as if it was going to say something back to her if she looked at it long enough.
Women living in poor areas in the UK are almost twice as likely to develop clinical anxiety as women in richer areas. However, whether men lived in poorer or richer areas made no difference to their levels of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). These are amongst the main findings of a major survey on how socio-economic factors affect mental health in the UK.
A mind-altering drug called ketamine is changing the way some doctors treat depression.
A new clinical trial has demonstrated that combining an antidepressant with an antipsychotic drug could improve clinical depression in older adults who do not respond to regular treatment.
It’s estimated that 1 in 5 adults are suffering from some form of mental illness. At least 16 million have reported suffering a mental breakdown in the past 12 months. Mental illness, as an umbrella term, is plaguing many adults who are able to hold steady jobs, pursue higher education, raise children, and of course be in relationships. – See more at: http://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/when-mental-illness-is-the-3rd-person-in-your-relationship-wcz/#sthash.I9qd4kPv.dpuf
Scott Stapp once was one of the biggest rock stars in the world: In 1999, his band,Creed, released Human Clay, which went on to sell 11.7 million copies, according to Nielsen Music, by mixing post-grunge sounds with Christian spirituality. In 2004 the Florida group split, with bandmates blaming Stapp’s increasingly erratic behavior. Ten years later, after arrests, suicide attempts and a short Creed reunion (see sidebar below), Stapp hit bottom, posting a bizarre video to Facebook in which he claimed he was broke, homeless and “under some kind of vicious attack.” That was followed by reports that Stapp, thinking he was a CIA agent, had threatened the life of President Obama.
So far this year, sheriffs’ deputies across the state have driven 2 million miles and spent 12,000 hoursdelivering mentally ill people to treatment.