mental illnesses

Baseball: Arm in Sling, Arizona's AJ Pollock Puts Best Face on Busted Elbow

...  puts best face on busted elbow Phoenix • A.J. Pollock emerged as one of baseball's best players a year ago. Now the Arizona Diamondbacks All-Star center fielder has to sit, rehab and wait after fracturing his right elbow in a headfirst slide into home. His arm in a sling, Pollock … Read more on Salt Lake Tribune County accused of letting mentally ill inmates languish Lawyers pressing a decades-old lawsuit over conditions in metro Phoenix's jail system say inmates with serious mental illnesses are suffering needlessly because authorities aren't bringing them to outside treatment centers, often leaving them to … Read more on Arizona Capitol Times Read ...

Practical Diabetes Care, 3rd Ed., Excerpt #39: Psychological Aspects of

...  of … … depression are strong risk factors for diabetes. The diagnosis of type 2 diabetes does not appear to have a severe psychological impact, other than short-lived anxiety, and a transient rise in the use of antidepressant medication in the year after … Read more on Diabetes In Control The Scariest Part of Horror Game 'The Park' Is Its Portrayal Of Mental Illness The problem—Lorraine is shown in no uncertain terms to have anxiety and depression, a combination of mental illnesses I suffer from myself. She is seen to take a “Zolift” prescription, an obvious riff on Zoloft, a common anxiety and depression medication. Read more on Forbes Read ...

Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT): Facts and Side Effects

...  Therapy (ECT): Facts and Side Effects Depression affects approximately 350 million people worldwide, making it the leading global cause of disability.1 Only 60-70% of persons with major depressive disorder who take antidepressant medications will respond to medication therapy. The … Read more on Medical News Today ECT, EEG machines lying unused for about ECT is typically used to treat severe depression and is occasionally used for other mental illnesses such as schizophrenia. During ECT, an electric current is briefly applied through the scalp to the brain while the patient is asleep under general … Read more on Daily Excelsior Read ...

How Immigration Detention Centers Retraumatize Women and Children Fleeing From

...  Immigration Detention Centers Retraumatize Women And Children Fleeing From … In interviews with 26 people released from family detention in July 2015, the UUSC researchers concluded that more than half of all respondents reported symptoms of depression and anxiety, while nearly half of respondents reported clinical significant … Read more on ThinkProgress Editorial: Mental illnesses are just that — illnesses For some people who suffer with mental illnesses, the reality is it can be easier to buy illegal drugs than it is to pick up a legal prescription. The reason is simple: the lack of transportation. All it takes is getting a phone number — which … Read more on Hammond Daily Star online Read ...

New Mental Health Approach for Police: Offering Solutions

...  mental health approach for police: Offering solutions Seeing a person with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or major depression when he or she is stable can help decrease the stigma that those with mental illnesses are "crazy," Diab and other experts say. "One of … What type of treatment has worked for you? Read more on Chicago Daily Herald People in these parts suffer more from seasonal depression Initial treatment of SAD may seem overly simple, but according to Stewart, can be incredibly effective – a good diet and plenty of exercise. “This can be difficult to do, since the person feels tired and unmotivated, but if you can get them up and get … Read ...

Anxiety and Depression Medication: Understanding Anxiety and Depression

At times, all of us have felt anxious and moody. Anxiety, in fact, is one of the universal behavioral indicators that are shared across regional and cultural boundaries. Anxiety and depression, in fact, are a completely normal part of human life. Who hasn’t studied for an exam without having test anxiety, only to score much more than what we’d anticipated? As an evolutionary mechanism, anxiety was fundamentally important to our survival as a species – it kept us alert and prepared for any foreseeable difficulty. Read more... ...

Mental Health and Substance Abuse: Connecting the Dots

  Mental Health and Substance Abuse: Connecting the Dots – Originally webcast on July 17, 2014 Speakers: Gerald Fishman, Ph.D. Associate Dean, Union Institute & University Raymond Bizzari Director of Community Servic…   Cops log 11496 miles on mental health “If the mental health professional determines the person needs treatment, the officer is responsible for locating a facility and transporting the patient to the facility,” Dorsey said. “It is not uncommon for this process to take a few hours.” Taking … Read more on Edmond Sun Read more... ...