Two and a half million people suffer a traumatic brain injury each year. As soldiers return from overseas and football related concussions increase, that number could be on the rise.
It’s well known that taking a prescription drug will put a person at risk of side effects. Most of the time, these are pretty mild, ranging from fever to vomiting and stomach problems. Unfortunately, those weren’t the side effects one Atlanta woman experienced after taking her own prescription pills.
Ice addiction is overtaking alcohol as the biggest problem facing Indigenous populations, the head of a rehabilitation centre specialising in treatment for Aboriginal people says. Joe Coyte is CEO of The Glen, on the New South Wales Central Coast, which treats about 200 addicts each year.
If you have ever lost a beloved pet, you know how hard it can be. Many of us struggle to cope with the loss of a pet. Pet bereavement can be a lonely, solitary grief. Fortunately, if you are grieving your best friend, you don’t have to go through it alone.
My husband is always irritable. He gets upset at the smallest things and takes it out on whoever is around. He’s always had a bit of a temper but it got worse after his fourth deployment. What could be causing this?
Monday is World Bipolar Day, an annual campaign to educate people about a little-understood illness that affects almost 6 million adults in America. Marked by alternating episodes of extreme mania and deep depression, it usually only becomes part of the national conversation when someone does something deadly (a school shooting) or Hollywood makes a movie (“Silver Linings Playbook”). Witness the speculation swirling around the pilot who authorities believe crashed the Germanwings jet in the French Alps last week.
Jason Richburg has suffered for years with fears of confined spaces, large crowds, loud noises and lots of commotion, which sets off massive panic attacks. He often secludes himself away from everyone because when he has these anxiety attacks he is not rational and has a very difficult time even talking or thinking.
Editors’ Note: Landin Murphy, 20, of Williamsville, suffered a traumatic brain injury during a basketball game in his freshman year of high school in December 2008.
Pittsburgh rapper Kai Roberts is just a few short months away from graduating from Carnegie Mellon University, but it wasn’t the smoothest ride to the finish line.
There are 129 pages of raw, intimate and powerful expressions of the experience of both mental and physical illness in “Release.Restart.Review,” a literary arts anthology created by and for Stanford University students that focuses on emotional well-being.