19
Jan
2015
Written by David Crary / ABC News
With his wife and child close at hand, Army Maj. Chad Wriglesworth battled skin cancer for more than a year before dying at age 37. “It was long and painful and awful,” said Aimee Wriglesworth, who believes the cancer resulted from exposure to toxic fumes in Iraq. Yet the 28-year-old widow from Bristow, Virginia, seized a chance to recount the ordeal and its aftermath to a researcher, hoping that input from her and her 6-year-old daughter might be useful to other grieving military families.
16
Jan
2015
Written by Alicia Vrajlal / Daily Mail
Almost a month after he was rushed to hospital following a prescription drug overdose, Big Brother star Ben Zabel has opened up about the fateful day and his struggle with mental illness.
16
Jan
2015
Written by Jennifer Brown / The Denver Post
Electric shock therapy, no longer the fearsome, convulsing drama of the movies, has remained for decades the “gold standard” in treatment for people with severe depression.
15
Jan
2015
Written by Amanda Holpuch / The Guardian
The Seinfeld character Cosmo Kramer’s loner behavior and the seemingly imaginary world he lived in made for award-winning television. According to a group of psychiatry students in New Jersey, however, such behavior is also an indicator of mental illness.
12
Jan
2015
Written by Viatcheslva Wlassoff / Brain Blogger
Blame it on movies or books, but we have fallen into the habit of stereotyping. Popular culture portrays highly intelligent men and women as moody, secretive people who have so much going on in their minds that they are mentally always on the edge. There is probably a point here because psychiatrists are tinkering with the idea of a connection between high intelligence and depression and mental illness.
12
Jan
2015
Written by Neil Roberts / GPonline
The report recommended a national support service be established to ensure appropriate services and support are made available to doctors in need, that a senior medical officer be appointed within the GMC to oversee medical cases, and that the regulator’s staff undertake mental health awareness training.
09
Jan
2015
Written by Lindsay Knake / MLive.com
Community High School students Madeline Halpert and Eva Rosenfeld gained a national profile this year when they wrote a column about depression among high school students.
08
Jan
2015
Written by Christine Laborio-Chafkin / Inc.com
When the video of Brené Brown delivering a compelling, earnest, and vulnerable TEDx talk was put online in late 2010, it didn’t take long to go viral. Brown, a professor, author, and public speaker, was both humbled and terrified. And as the video circulated online, she made the crucial misstep of ignoring the first rule of posting something heartfelt online: Don’t read the comments.
05
Jan
2015
Written by Shaleek Blackburn / The Orange County Register
With all the commitments of daily life, including hectic work schedules, taking care of family members and trying to maintain a healthy lifestyle, we’re all bound to have a bad day every now and then, says Kaiser Permanente psychiatry expert Dr. Eric Huy Nguyen.
30
Dec
2014
Written by Science / Science
Scientists at seven UK universities are to set up a research consortium aimed at exploiting a newly discovered link between immune disorders and mental illness.