Understanding America’s epidemic of prescription opioid and heroin addiction requires grasping certain statistics and trends, some of which I have highlighted in prior posts.
A mind-altering drug called ketamine is changing the way some doctors treat depression.
A new clinical trial has demonstrated that combining an antidepressant with an antipsychotic drug could improve clinical depression in older adults who do not respond to regular treatment.
Sleep for Vietnam veteran Fred Rendon Jr. was not an option.
It’s estimated that 1 in 5 adults are suffering from some form of mental illness. At least 16 million have reported suffering a mental breakdown in the past 12 months. Mental illness, as an umbrella term, is plaguing many adults who are able to hold steady jobs, pursue higher education, raise children, and of course be in relationships. – See more at: http://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/when-mental-illness-is-the-3rd-person-in-your-relationship-wcz/#sthash.I9qd4kPv.dpuf
Scott Stapp once was one of the biggest rock stars in the world: In 1999, his band,Creed, released Human Clay, which went on to sell 11.7 million copies, according to Nielsen Music, by mixing post-grunge sounds with Christian spirituality. In 2004 the Florida group split, with bandmates blaming Stapp’s increasingly erratic behavior. Ten years later, after arrests, suicide attempts and a short Creed reunion (see sidebar below), Stapp hit bottom, posting a bizarre video to Facebook in which he claimed he was broke, homeless and “under some kind of vicious attack.” That was followed by reports that Stapp, thinking he was a CIA agent, had threatened the life of President Obama.
So far this year, sheriffs’ deputies across the state have driven 2 million miles and spent 12,000 hoursdelivering mentally ill people to treatment.
Dr. J. Zink’s mission Aug. 28 was to improve the quality of love among Santa Monica Rotarians by distilling 42 years as a marriage therapist into a 35-minute talk.
If you’re dealing with any mental health problems, you’ll likely encounter plenty of sympathetic and understanding people who will be eager to offer support in any way they can. Unfortunately, there may be a few people in your life who let their misconceptions about mental health cloud their beliefs and behavior. Anxiety disorder is no exception to this rule. Despite the fact that anxiety affects 18 percent of American adults and it can seriously affect someone’s quality of life if it goes untreated, it’s still sometimes dismissed as nothing more than a person’s penchant for being overly dramatic or a refusal to act “mature” or “social.”
In a new study, researchers found that teens who reported having a traumatic brain injury in the past year were seven times more likely to report drinking at least five energy drinks in the last week, compared to teens who did not have a traumatic brain injury, or TBI.
Loneliness is a feeling we’d all like to avoid. Research shows it’s terrible for our health; it diminishes cognitive performance and the immune system, increases the risk of heart disease and dementia and hastens early death. And the psychological effects are just as bad; studies show that people need strong social connections to feel happy and find meaning in their lives, and that many of us would actually rather receive mild electroshocks than be alone.
Everyone once in a while, a certain body part of mine twitches. It happens at random and effects whatever body part my brain decides on that day. It hits me without warning and there is absolutely nothing I can do about it. But in the grand scheme of me dealing with my disorder for the past 20 years, I welcome it.
For years, there was an apartment building across the street from Community-University Health Care Center (CUHCC), a nearly 50-year-old University of Minnesota-run clinic based in Minneapolis’ Phillips neighborhood. About a year ago, the university bought the apartment building and tore it down, planning to one day turn the space into a clinic parking lot. But the lot didn’t appear overnight, and Melissa Flores Fioravanti, program manager for CUHCC’s Adult Rehabilitative Mental Health Services (ARMHS), started to imagine the space that remained as more than a place to put cars.
The demand for psychiatrists is becoming a more pressing issue for state and federal lawmakers.