It was November 2012 when Dennis Hartman, a Seattle business executive, managed to pull himself out of bed, force himself to shower for the first time in days and board a plane that would carry him across the country to a clinical trial at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) in Bethesda.
There is a story in my family of my grandfather’s homecoming from the Korean War. His father, a medic in the German army in World War I, took him into his study. “You saw horrible things over there,” he told his son. “But you have to forget them. When you leave this room, you just don’t think about it anymore.”
Dr. Richard Kogan’s fingers — sometimes fluttering, sometimes flogging the keys of a piano — spilled a cascading torrent of emotion across a lobby at Summa Akron City Hospital Friday as if it was Carnegie Hall.
People suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) could someday be treated with the help of an electric patch worn on their head when they are sleeping, researchers say.
For the past three years a local organization has pulled out all the stops to bring joy and a sense of normalcy for Louisiana and Texas residents who have traumatic brain injuries.
The skyrocketing number of children with attention deficit disorders has led some pediatricians to question whether the diagnostic criteria for them — which is necessary for medication prescriptions and disability accommodations — is too subjective. Some children may be over-diagnosed and over-medicated, while others who fall short of the diagnosis go unsupported.
Victoria Maxwell had her first psychotic episode, ironically enough, after attending a meditation retreat. “I wasn’t eating, wasn’t sleeping — there was financial stress, interpersonal things. It was like this perfect storm, and I went into a psychosis,” she recalls.
Matthieu Ricard, 69, is a Tibetan Buddhist monk originally from France who has been called “the world’s happiest man.” That’s because he participated in a 12-year brain study on meditation and compassion led by a neuroscientist from the University of Wisconsin, Richard Davidson. Davidson hooked up Ricard’s head to 256 sensors and found that when Ricard was meditating on compassion, his mind was unusually light.
If you have recently been diagnosed as bipolar, there are a few basics you should know. You’ll likely find them out on your own, but it might take a while.
Glenn Close is doing her part to help end the stigma around mental illness.
To help further initiate conversation and educate people about mental health, Close, 68, has joined Mashable’s#MindfulAllies campaign, which tells real stories about real people dealing with mental illness.
As part of the campaign, Close, a longtime advocate for ending the negative stigma attached to mental illness, penned an emotional letter in which she opened up about her family’s battle with mental illness.G