mental health disorders

Eating Disorder Treatment Facilities: Eating Disorder Treatment

If being supportive doesn’t work, professional help may be required. In extreme cases, there are ways people who suffer from these disorders can get the help they need, such as an eating disorder treatment designed specifically for their particular problem by a therapist trained in this field. So maybe-just maybe- the cookies and the ice cream are gifts. They are giving me the opportunity to choose differently, to believe in myself, to believe that I am capable of changing the voice that has been playing in my head. I can change the way I see myself and the way I interact in my world. Read more... ...

The Delray Recovery Center Hosts a Workshop on Treating the Addicted Family

...  Delray Recovery Center Hosts a Workshop on Treating the Addicted Family Located in Delray Beach, FL, The Delray Recovery Center offers individualized treatment programs for alcohol and drug addiction, as well as co-occurring mental health disorders. The Delray Recovery Center believes in a long-term treatment model, where … Read more on PR Web (press release) The Cost of Addiction in Maine The Bangor Area Recovery Network's community recovery center is located at 142 Center Street in Brewer. It provides a clean and safe environment for the recovery community and is open 7 days per week from 10am to 8pm. For more information, call the … Read more on Bangor Daily News Read ...

Your Experts: Sleep Strategies for Insomnia

by Old Shoe Woman Your experts: Sleep strategies for insomnia Often midsleep awakening occurs during periods of high stress. Middle-of-the-night worrying is probably the number one cause of sleeplessness. Insomnia can be linked to mental health disorders, particularly depression. Both depression and insomnia may … Read more on TCPalm Penn Freshman Runner Commits Suicide Madison Holleran, who by her father's description was “the happiest girl on the planet” as a New Jersey 800-meter champion and all-state soccer player a year ago, apparently succumbed to the stress and depression she was feeling as a University of … Read more on Runner’s World Newswire Read ...

What Presidents Were Never Elected President?

Question by Astr: What Presidents were never elected President? It’s common knowledge that Ford was never elected President or Vice President. But is this a complete list of Vice Presidents who came to be Presidents without EVER winning an election for President? Millard Fillmore Chester Arthur Gerald Ford William Taft Warren Harding Qbert P – you’re right about Taft. I got a little confused because I remember Wilson was having some health issues and thought he died in office). Nice! I have a thing for obscure Presidents. I had forgotten about Johnson and Tyler (like every American doesn’t know who they are haha). And mistakenly named Taft and Harding. Read more... ...

Help for Depression Without Medication?

Question by Blake: Help for Depression Without Medication? I currently suffer from severe depression. I know this because it runs very strong in my mothers side of the family, and they are all on medication of various sorts. My mother before me had it, and now she is deceased due to cancer, and while she was a teen, she tried killing herself several times because of depression. My father, who I currently live with, will not take me to a health clinic to get me help or to see a psychiatrist because he “doesn’t believe in medication”. There is no point in talking to him about it anymore, or trying to get him to take me, because all he will say is that I need to “pull my head out of my a**” and “stop being stupid and trying to get attention.” So, the ultimate question is: how can I treat depression in any way without the use of prescription medication? I am currently seventeen, and turning eighteen in five months, but I’m not sure I will mak ...

Local Crisis Center Aids Police in Mental Health Calls

by pilaar39 Local Crisis Center Aids Police In Mental Health Calls WACO (December 4, 2013) With the opening of the new MHMR Crisis treatment facility at 301 Londonderry Dr. in Waco, comes a sigh of relief from police officers across Central Texas. The 16-bed facility serves as a residential mental health treatment … Read more on KWTX 3 nonprofits receive 000 each to improve mental health services Three local nonprofit organizations with a common goal – improving access to mental health services for teens and immigrants – have each received approximately $ 50,000 from the Ethel and James Flinn Foundation, the Washtenaw Health Plan announced … Read more on The Ann Arbor News – MLive.com Read more... ...

Islam, Spirituality, and Mental Illness Dr. Taif Kaissi and Dr. Faisal Qazi

  Islam, Spirituality, and Mental Illness Dr. Taif Kaissi and Dr. Faisal Qazi – Islam, Spirituality, and Mental Illness Dr. Taif Kaissi and Dr. Faisal Qazi. The 11th Annual Conference on Mental Health and Spirituality.   Gus Deeds, 2nd attack show scope of mental illness Less than a week after the forced release from care of mental patient Austin “Gus” Deeds and his subsequent stabbing of his father, Creigh, police say an elderly western Henrico County couple were brutally attacked in their home by their son. Former … Read more on Roanoke Times Read more... ...