Category Archives: Depression

Teen mental health concerns surface in new Minnesota clinic

30 Oct 2015
Written by Tom Weber / MPR

Only 40 percent of Minnesota youth received a mental health screening as part of their preventive checkups last year. Of those, 1 in 10 showed signs of depression or other mental health concerns, state officials said Thursday. The results come from a first-ever analysis of Minnesota health clinics. The study shows clinics are doing well in counseling children on obesity but suggests they’re falling short on mental health evaluation.

Checking up: emotional wellness can strengthen your mind, body

28 Oct 2015
Written by Morgan Profumo / WKU Herald

The term “void” can be defined as complete emptiness; it is intangible and invisible. Some people spend day after day trying to fill an emotional void — a psychological hole that drains happiness. Being emotionally unstable or apathetic is detrimental to one’s emotional wellness.

There is no health without mental health

24 Oct 2015
Written by Zach Benoit / Billings Gazette

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.

 

Treating severe mental illness: The U.S. lags behind

23 Oct 2015
Written by The Opinion Pages / New York Times

“New Approach May Alleviate Schizophrenia” (front page, Oct. 20) describes a large new study reporting on the optimal treatment for first break psychosis. The winner is a combination of medication, education, skills training and psychotherapy. This is not at all surprising: This package already informs best practice in most other developed countries.