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Archive for August, 2007

Teen’s Suicide Hard to Understand

Friday, August 31st, 2007

There are few things sadder and more troubling in this world than seeing a young person's life cut short, not by an accident or illness, but by their own hand. And this article in ...

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What’s a Blog? Most Americans Know

Friday, August 31st, 2007

Well, of course we don't have to tell you what a blog is, since you're already reading one. But most Americans have also read a blog, and 8 out 10 claim to know what a ...

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Irritating Support

Friday, August 31st, 2007

Support groups are supposed to be helpful, so how can I go into group feeling neutral and leave totally irritated? And what do I do about it? I didn't really have a problem to discuss in ...

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An Interview with Marty Seligman

Wednesday, August 29th, 2007

Psychology today doesn't have the well-known philosophical rock stars of yore, such as Freud or Skinner. What we do have are more complex thinkers who have spent decades researching more subtle human behaviors, such as, ...

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Facing Us Contest

Wednesday, August 29th, 2007

The Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance, a great peer support organization in America, has just announced the Facing Us contest. They're looking for people to create videos and artwork related to ...

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Va. Tech Shooter Cho Had Social Anxiety Disorder

Monday, August 27th, 2007

The Washington Post reported today that Virginia Tech shooter Cho had an anxiety disorder -- selective mutism. Selective mutism is a rare and extreme form of social anxiety. Basically, the person can't speak ...

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Bullying & Adult Mental Health

Saturday, August 25th, 2007

A study out of Finland has shown that people on both sides of bullying (the bully and his target) are at increased risk for anxiety disorders and antisocial personal disorder later in life. The ...

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Non-Medical ADHD Intervention

Saturday, August 25th, 2007

A really simple study is showing that good psychology can help reduce symptoms associated with ADHD, which challenges the idea that ADHD is essentially a biologically programmed disorder that can only be helped with medication. ...

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Internet Addiction (Here We Go Again)

Saturday, August 25th, 2007

Several news services have carried a report on an Israeli psychiatrist that says "internet addiction disorder" (IAD) needs to be classified with disorders like compulsive gambling and kleptomania. I have written about this before ...

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Fear of New Foods is Genetic?

Saturday, August 25th, 2007

According to researchers in England, hesitation to try new foods can be traced to our genes. The idea is that it is a characteristic that developed through the evolutionary process to protect young people ...

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What Are You So Depressed About?

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007

"What are you so depressed about?" Anyone who's ever suffered from depression has probably heard this question at least once in their lives. It's often spoken not by a mean-spirited stranger, but an honestly caring ...

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The Banyan

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007

The combo of severe mental illness and homelessness is a disturbing problem in Western cultures and there's much outcry over service shortages. In India, however, mental illness is still largely seen as a problem caused ...

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