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Apr
2015
Written by James Clark / Task and Purpose
How do you explain combat related post-traumatic stress disorder to your children? It’s hard enough to rationalize the anger, confusion or self-doubt with oneself — or convey how you feel to your spouse or family — but how do you get it across to your son or daughter that what you’re feeling stems from an event long since passed? The answer may lie in the title of Seth Kastle’s children’s book, “Why is Dad so Mad?”
27
Apr
2015
Written by Alex Lemieux / Guardan
In today’s society, mental illness receives and bad rap. After all, for centuries, and most likely even further in the past, the notion of mental illness was seen to be a taboo subject.
26
Apr
2015
Written by Karen Weintraub / USA Today
Roughly one in 10 young adults on the autism spectrum apparently has nothing to do all day, and many more have very limited opportunities, according to a new study.
25
Apr
2015
Written by Kathleen Schassler / Middletown Press
Five years and more than 100 road races have gone by since Julie Cesare suffered a traumatic brain injury at work. Once a nurse, Cesare has been unable to work since that time.
25
Apr
2015
Written by Diana C. Pitaru / Psych Central
Anxiety is not an easy to untangle and resolve emotion because its roots can run deep into your psyche. There are times when you’re feeling anxious and you simply can’t put your finger on the reasons behind it and yet other times when the culprit for its’ presence is known and yet you feel like there is nothing you can do to quiet it down or put a stop to it. Your emotions (anxiety) will dictate that you find a way right here, right now because otherwise things will get even worse (gravitating toward panic).
24
Apr
2015
Written by Sherry Amatenstein / Vox
My parents survived the Holocaust, so I was raised by people who had been wrenched through and through by horror and loss. Mom spent ages 14 to 17 in a work camp (once stealing potatoes from under her captors’ noses to feed a friend sick with typhus), and came home to find her mother and two sisters were dead. Dad was imprisoned at Auschwitz and Dachau. Despite the pain poised just beneath the surface, my parents were role models for how to wrest joy and meaning from tragedy.
23
Apr
2015
Written by Scott Stump / www.today.com
Three years after filming a video detailing her struggle with drug addiction and bulimia, blogger Collin Morgan finally feels comfortable sharing it with the world.
22
Apr
2015
Written by Emily Wax-Thibodeaux / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Army Lt. Col. John Thurman lost 26 co-workers in the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the Pentagon. He endured severe smoke inhalation while trapped in the building for 25 minutes. He spent a week in the hospital recovering.
21
Apr
2015
Written by Andrew Scull / Scientific American
As civilized human beings, we like to console ourselves with visions of progress, illusory as that concept often proves to be. Perhaps we have not seen progress in the realms of literature and art (though some would dispute that claim), but surely science moves forward, and medicine too, insofar as it is a science rather than an art. In the developed world, at least, we now enjoy longer, and certainly more materially abundant if not culturally richer and happier lives.
20
Apr
2015
Written by Lara StolmanA / New York Times
A swim team for kids with autism.
18
Apr
2015
Written by Rachel Martin / NPR
When a pilot crashed a Germanwings plane into a mountainside in the French Alps last month, one word kept coming up over and over in the media coverage: depression. What did the airline know about the pilot’s mental health, and what was he required to tell them?
17
Apr
2015
Written by /
It started with a horrible, high-pitched wheezing, a sound unlike anything Laurian Scott and her husband, John, had ever heard, and it was coming from their 16-month-old daughter, Thisbe, as she gasped for air.
16
Apr
2015
Written by Boyd Huppert / KARE 11
No one can say with certainty if dogs go to heaven. But the residents of Lyngblomsten care center feel confident that heaven sent a dog to them.
15
Apr
2015
Written by KTUL / KTUL
A 6-year-old Portuguese water dog named Moxie has shed light on the furrier side of medicine – providing a dog’s-eye view of her job as a therapy dog as she cuddled with patients and staff.
14
Apr
2015
Written by Bradley J. Fikes / UT San Diego
Brain scans of possibly autistic infants and toddlers can predict whether they will develop normal language skills, according to a new study by UC San Diego researchers.