What Should I Do When I Suspect That a Patient is Suicidal?
This is a very important question, especially because 45% of people who ultimately commit suicide… [more]
Suicide Prevention
Teenage suicide is preventable when people learn to recognize the warning signs. Often teenagers present… [more]
Religious Affiliation, Atheism And Suicide
ABSTRACT: > OBJECTIVE: Few studies have investigated the association between religion and suicide… [more]
Mentally Health
Adverse Mental Health Symptoms Indicative of an Illness
It is sometimes very hard to pinpoint what makes a mentally ill patient be referred to as such, especially when such a person is a close family member. Mental disorders sometimes come out as odd behaviors and psychological states that you may not be … [Read More...]
The Stigma Of A Mental Health Diagnosis
An individual diagnosed with a mental health condition, no matter how minor in severity, faces an uphill battle against the ignorance of society. The failure of the masses to consider mental illnesses as treatable conditions in otherwise "normal" … [Read More...]
Sports gives good Health, and what impact this has on the mental health and quality of life?
What is health? The definition of health is not just absence of disease and suffering, but perfect physical, mental and social well-being. We all have physical, mental and social conditions that we are more or less happy with. Many believe that this … [Read More...]
Depression
In Light of Mental Health Awareness Month, Depression Author Asks, ‘Are Self-Help Books Prolonging Your Depression?’
Kennebunkport, ME (PRWEB) April 6, 2006 In recognition of Mental Health Awareness Month (May), Bob Olson, the author of ?Win The Battle,? is teaching depression sufferers why self-help books may be prolonging their suffering. Olson warns, ?The … [Read More...]
Atypical Antipsychotics in The Treatment of Unipolar And Bipolar Depression: Friend or Foe?
IntroductionDepression is a psychological disorder that affects approximately 15 million American adults in its unipolar form, and six million in the bipolar form (Archives of Gen. Psychiatry, 2005). These are only the actual recorded, diagnosed … [Read More...]
DEPRESSION, *DEPRESSION, *DEPRESSION, *DEPRESSION, *DEPRESSION
There was thunder in the hut teeth clattered under the ground. Handcuffed you walk in inequality to qualify for hanging till dead. I may not tell myself what was happening to me. Moving in opposite direction the bird was able to catch … [Read More...]