Guest commentary: Davis Schimmel ... Burden of untreated mental illness ... Naples Daily News By David Schimmel Naples CEO, David Lawrence Center Gaining an understanding of the magnitude and burden of untreated mental illness eludes most Americans. Mental illness is a subject that many of us do not wish to discuss, yet it has a surprising ... |
Educate To Erase Mental Illness Stigma Says Lee Lam Thye Bernama KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 5 (Bernama) -- Mental Health Promotion Advisory Council member Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye today called on non-governmental organisations, charitable foundations and the government to focus on educating the society on mental illness, ... |
 WisconsinWatch.org | Gaps persist in campus mental health services WisconsinWatch.org Vohl and Steidl help lead the UW-Madison campus chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness. Lukas Keapproth/Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism Jenny Peek and Kate Prengaman reported this story with other journalism students in a ... Amid surge in demand, UW students combat mental health stigmas |
Autistic man struggles in Iowa's mental health system DesMoinesRegister.com Iowa spends almost $1 billion a year in federal, state and county money on mental health care. About 5 percent of Americans have a serious mental illness, such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or severe depression. That would equate to 150000 Iowans. |
Obesity, Mental Illness 'Dangerously Linked' Medscape February 3, 2012 — A "complex interplay" of neurobiological, psychological, and socioeconomic factors contribute to the dangerous association between obesity and mental illness, according to 2 clinical reviews published in the January issue of the ... |
 WGRZ-TV | What is conversion disorder? CNN (blog) A person with conversion disorder has neurological symptoms that aren't related to any known neurological condition, according to the American Psychiatric Association. The symptoms could appear as uncontrolled motions or verbal outbursts, ... New York's Le Roy students, public still seek answers in mystery illness Conversion disorder IS a legitimate diagnosis More mystery illness details emerge in Le Roy |
 Daily Mail | 'I am not mad, Morgellons IS real': Thousands claim to suffer from the ... Daily Mail Armed with this information, she went to a number of different doctors, but was shocked to find that, according to the British medical establishment, the condition does not exist. Victoria was told it was a psychological illness – 'delusions of ... |
 Juvenile Justice Information Exchange | Redefining Mental Disorders Could Have Implications for Treatment, Insurance ... Juvenile Justice Information Exchange When the American Psychiatric Association (APA) announced tentative plans to officially redefine a number of autism spectrum disorders, the controversial news was met with both praise and criticism by many mental health professionals, educators and ... Subject:* 's Psychiatric News: 'DSM-5 May See Major Changes to Autism ... Redefinition of autism sparks concerns Should Grief Be Treated the Same as Depression? |
 The Associated Press | CDC: Morgellons Disease May Be Psychiatric Disorder WebMD They suggest that the patients' symptoms and histories are similar to those of patients with a psychiatric condition called delusional infestation -- the delusional belief that one is infested with parasites. More broadly, the findings suggest that ... Morgellons Disease: Morgellons is Psychological, CDC Says Study of freakish mystery illness finds no cause |
Drawing the Lines of Mental Disorders New York Times Every decade or so, the profession inspects recent research and heartily debates what diagnoses warrant inclusion in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Rarely is there unanimity — sometimes scientific findings are inconclusive ... Is Grief an Illness? Mental Health Matters: Mental-health news tidbits Should grief be treated medically? |
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