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Feb
2016
Written by Felicity Thistlethwaite / Sunday Express
Any ailment can be frustrating and upsetting, but tinnitus sufferers will tell you the constant humming sound goes beyond that. Tinnitus is the term for hearing sounds that come from inside your body, rather than from an outside source. It is usually described as a ringing, hissing, buzzing, roaring or humming sound where there is no external sound source. It can lead to clinical depression. There may be a single sound or two or more, and the noise may be there all the time or come and go. It can be heard in one or both ears or in the head.”
18
Feb
2016
Written by Kim Banks / Examiner
Clinical depression is normally described as a common clinical mental health illness that affects one’s thoughts, feelings and behaviors. Depression has symptoms related to feelings such as intense sadness, anger, and guilt, hopelessness and constant pessimism. Behaviors symptoms include withdrawing socially, lack of energy, low motivation, sleep problems, poor concentration and changes in appetite causing either significant weight gain or lose. Symptoms in thoughts include poor self-esteem, recurrent thoughts of suicide and loss of interest in regular activities.
17
Feb
2016
Written by Embry Roberts / TODAY
In the six years since Nik Glaser adopted a golden doodle puppy named Kramer, the animal has become more than a pet. He’s become a therapy pet. “I have clinical anxiety, and I go through phases where it can be overwhelming,” Glaser, 30, explained. “With Kramer around, I rarely get to the stage of having panic attacks. He’s very intuitive. If he sees I’m getting agitated, he’ll put his head on my lap or reach out with his paw. “It’s a subtle thing, but it calms me.”
16
Feb
2016
Written by David Yi / Mashable
Kerby Jean-Raymond knows how to make a statement. It was the young New York designer who caught the attention of the fashion industry when his entire last season was dedicated to the Black Lives Matter movement. This year it was dedicated to mental health.
15
Feb
2016
Written by Jesse Singal / Science of Us
It’s not easy to depict the complicated relationship between mental illness and the creation of art in a way that doesn’t either trivialize the suffering caused by the former or flatten the complicated interplay between the two into a trite story line. That was the task faced by Paul Dalio, the writer and director of Touched With Fire, a new film starring Katie Holmes and Luke Kirby as Carla and Marco, a pair of bipolar poets who fall in love.
14
Feb
2016
Written by Cesar Chelala / Japan Times
Chinese scientists have created monkeys with a version of autism that could eventually help in the cure for this complex spectrum of brain disorders that affects millions of children worldwide. Autism has been identified in approximately 1 in 68 children in the U.S., and its characteristics are only now becoming better known.
13
Feb
2016
Written by Amy Morin / Chicago Tribune
More than 1 billion people log onto Facebook every day. Facebook remains the world’s most popular social networking site, where users can post duck-face selfies, get into feuds over the presidential campaign and read the headlines from their favorite news outlet.
12
Feb
2016
Written by Terri Peters / Today Parents
Since Bill Davis’ son, Chris, was diagnosed with autism as a toddler, the Pennsylvania dad has learned to modify his expectations, often making changes where needed in order to help his son succeed.
11
Feb
2016
Written by Patrick Skahill / WNPR
Could King Henry VIII have suffered from the same brain injuries affecting some modern-day football players? That’s the question at the center of a new study looking at traumatic brain injury.
10
Feb
2016
Written by The Mighty / The Mighty
I was diagnosed with classic autism when I was 4. I found the word a terrifying place. In some ways, it’s still a frightening place for me. But I have reached a point where I am a professional public speaker on autism.
Parents often ask me to give them advice for their children who are on the autism spectrum. There are many things parents don’t understand about their children with autism. Here are things I wish parents of children with autism would understand.