Mental Illness - Articles
Addiction and Mental Illness
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Kate McLaughlin.
... covered the treatment approaches of available facilities.Early in our years-long journey I learned that some treatment philosophies denied the existence of biologically-based mental illness. Others eschewed drugs of any sort, regardless of who prescribed them and why. And still others functioned under the assumption that every addiction was caused ...
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Gender and mental illness
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Carrie A.
... der and mental health, many of which I'm not qualified to discuss. There are issues with diagnosis and treatment, but there are also issues with how men and women experience mental illness. A few weeks ago, the New York Times did a wonderful piece on PTSD in female combat veterans, and how their experiences differ from mens'. The disorder wasn't ...
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Mental Illness and Crime
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Beautiful Mind, Complex Life
... also recently volunteered to speak to local police officers in the Crisis Intervention branch of the local police department. This is a program through which people who have mental illnesses speak to officers to help educate them about mental illness. This has been shown to result in lower numbers of people with mental illnesses being shot by the ...
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EDs are mental illnesses
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Carrie A.
... and frequently do) go on hour-long diatribes about the real nature of eating disorders to anyone and everyone in earshot. It makes perfect sense that EDs in other people are mental illnesses because I can see the distortions. I understand how a nibble of a Saltine can seem like "too much food" or how running a marathon can be "too ...
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No Mental Illness
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Liz Janill
No mental illness here, Just old fashioned greed and a warped sense of the "Pretty boy" syndrome in my opinion. Unless politics is a mental illness Blagojevich is sane! ...
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Mental Illness & Enough!
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Cathy T.
So it has been a while since I talked about me. The thing with my illness? It takes time. So months go by with little or no change. Well, there is SOME change. Lots of time I write-off my progress because it isn’t big enough. Have you noticed that there isn’t much that we can do enough of? Not thin enough. The house isn’t clean enough. The ...
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Serious Mental Illnesses?
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Valash
I was discussing mental illness with an associate and the question came up, what makes mental illness serious? In short, serious mental illness includes: schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, major ...
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Mental Illness - Stigma of Silence
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Anonymous Mom
... thought out and I like the message.Glenn CloseEmmy, Golden Globe and Tony Award winning actressPosted: October 21, 2009 12:03 PMBIOBecome a FanGet Email AlertsBloggers' IndexMental Illness: The Stigma of SilenceMental illness and I are no strangers.From Alex Forrest in Fatal Attraction to Blanche Dubois in A Streetcar Named Desire to Norma Desmond ...
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Creativity and the connection to mental illness
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Beautiful Mind, Complex Life
... , and I would have loved to have been there to see him in person. I recently came across this article, which says there was a recent study that showed a genetic link between mental illness and creativity. I found this interesting, because I have read numerous such articles and books which mention such a link in the past. Perhaps you are familiar w ...
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