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Health & Wellness News tagged with mental illness

Prison Is a Revolving Door for the Mentally Ill
Health & Wellness  (tags: mental illness, prisons )

Kristi
- 360 days ago - latimesblogs.latimes.com
Prisons often have been described as the largest mental hospitals in the country. A study confirms that perception and suggests that, without more appropriate treatment, many mentally ill inmates are the most likely criminals to be repeat offenders.
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Grant Will Aid Inmates Who Are Mentally Ill
Health & Wellness  (tags: mental illness, prisons, grant, assistancetotheincarceratedmentallyill, aid, mental disorders )

Sara
- 363 days ago - charlotteobserver.com
Durham mental health professionals think nonviolent inmates who are mentally ill need treatment more than a stay in jail or prison. Thanks to a federal grant, they'll be able to help such inmates quicker.
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Beware of New Syndrome: "SUDDEN DEATH AFTER ARREST"
Health & Wellness  (tags: Racism, mental health, mental illness, excitedDelirium, MaryNeal, LarryNeal, AssistancetotheIncarceratedMentallyIll, DogJustice, PoliceBrutality, PoliceState )

Mary
- 449 days ago - nowpublic.com
Apparently, medical examiners are being given something new to put on autopsy reports to replace "death by Taser." Hopefully, this new syndrome, called "Sudden Death After Arrest," is not something only affecting minority youths and mental patients . . .
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China and U.S.A. Cage Mentally Ill Citizens
Health & Wellness  (tags: mental illness, Mental health, DogJustice, LarryNeal, MaryNeal, Assistance to the IncarceratedMentallyIl, VinceLi, TimMcLean )

Mary
- 479 days ago - nowpublic.com
Must American citizens cage our paranoid schizophrenic relatives in our homes, as is regularly done by families in rural China? Canadian Greyhound Bus killer, Vince Li, was a native of China. He stabbed and decapitated Tim McLean on July 30 . . .
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Report Warns on Serious Mental Problems in Teens Using Pot
Health & Wellness  (tags: study, drugs, mental illness, depression. marijuana, teens, warning )

Mairead
- 564 days ago - efluxmedia.com
Marijuana is one of the world's most commonly used illegal drugs. There are approximately 300 million users worldwide and 28 million users in the United States alone. Marijuana comes from a plant called "Cannabis sativa." The chemical found in this pla
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P S Y C H I A T R Y & P H A R M A T H E U N H O L Y A L L I A N C E
Health & Wellness  (tags: psychiatry, SCAM, drugs, Big Pharma, Mental Illness, ethics, healthcare, children, protection, prevention, warning )

Gregory
- 568 days ago - psychconflicts.org
"In order to survive, we must go where the money is." -- Steven Sharfstein, M.D., former President of the American Psychiatric Association, January 2003. Widespread psychiatric drugging of children has become an increasingly contentious issue, with phar
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Announcing Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill ("AIMI")
Health & Wellness  (tags: mental illness, mental health, jail )

Mary
- 607 days ago - nowpublic.com
AIMI is a new organization formed by the family of lifelong mental patient, Larry Neal, to advocate for decriminalizing mental illness. The family alleges that Larry was euthanized under secret arrest.
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Excessive Emails and Text Are a Mental Illness
Health & Wellness  (tags: mental illness, email, texting, excessive, psychiatry )


- 611 days ago - news.com.au
People who send excessive texts and emails may have a mental illness, according to an article in a leading psychiatric journal.
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Internet Addiction May Be the Newest Extreme Addictive Disorder,MD Urges
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, humans, illness, psychiatry, mental illness, ocd, interesting, investigation, DSM-V )

J.
- 614 days ago - canada.com
A psychiatrists report published in the American Journal of Psychiatry says that compulsive online and/or off line computer usage,emailing,excessive gambling text messaging, etc.,should perhaps be classified as a mental illness.
4 comments
Britney's Tragic Descent Into Mania Is a Journey I Know All Too Well | News | Guardian Unlimited Music
Health & Wellness  (tags: britney spears, multiple pesonality, disorder, breakdown, mental health, mania, bipolar, depression, mental illness, psychiatry, doctor, medicine, hospital, therapy, psychiatrist, conflict, media, celebrity, paparazzi )

Cissy
- 662 days ago - music.guardian.co.uk
This weekend Britney Spears is being detained in a psychiatric hospital. Her very public breakdown reminded Emma Forrest of her own slide into mania and suicidal despair - and how her parents helped achieve her ultimate recovery.
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Death of Woman, 4 and 5 Year Old Children on Interstate 495 Ruled Murder-Suicide in MA.
Health & Wellness  (tags: Mental illness, I-495, murder-suicide, aunt, two children )

Little
- 678 days ago - boston.com
In an unusual twist to a heartbreaking case, a district attorney's office announced today that an aunt and two children who were struck by cars on Interstate 495 in Lowell a week ago were not killed by accident. It was a case of murder-suicide instead...
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Youngest Kids Face More Stress in Class: Study
Health & Wellness  (tags: children, stress, school, class, mental illness, alert, disease, government, health, healthcare, humans, illness, interesting, medicine, prevention, protection, research, risk, risks, safety, science, society, study, treatment, women, usa )

Nicholas
- 731 days ago - timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Kids who are the youngest in their class, no matter what the school year, face more stress and are at a greater risk of developing mental illness, a new study has found.
2 comments
Clinical Depression Swamps Gulf Coast
Health & Wellness  (tags: depression, katrina, hurricane, Mental health, mental illness )


- 796 days ago - seattletimes.nwsource.com
More than two years after the storm, it is not Hurricane Katrina itself, but the persistent frustrations of the delayed recovery that are exacting a high psychological toll on people who never before had such troubles.
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New Bipolar Disorder Treatments Tested
Health & Wellness  (tags: bipolar, mental illness, health, research, scientists, study, medicine, humans, life, treatment, prevention, disease, interesting )

Barb
- 816 days ago - news.yahoo.com
it's an illness that can rip careers and marriages apart and drive people to suicide. And it's so complex and mysterious that researchers haven't developed a medication specifically for it since lithium, more than half a century ago.....
6 comments
Quebec Man With Multiple Sclerosis Misdiagnosed as Insane 14 Years Ago
Health & Wellness  (tags: multiple sclerosis, ms, mental illness, neuroligst, misdiagnosis )

Cheryl Su
- 877 days ago - medbroadcast.com
Quebec man, once diagnosed as insane by a neurologist, has actually been suffering from the effects of multiple sclerosis.The M S Society of Canada says the disease was difficult to diagnose as recent as the early 1990s. The group is stunned a neurologist
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