If you suffer from a mental disorder maybe you’d feel more at ease at home — home on the range. At least that’s what a new study out of the Norwegian University of Life Sciences supports.
To assess the benefits of Green care, the researchers asked ninety patients (59 women and 31 men) with […]

Fear of what others may be thinking of us is common, but exaggerated fears are more common than previously thought. Most research into paranoia (defined as “unfounded mistrust”) involves psychosis and schizophrenia, although it’s been estimated 10-15% of the population suffer such fears. New research finds that lesser degrees affect many more.
Researcher Daniel Freeman at […]

A recent study by The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston concludes that chronic sleeplessness in adolescents is linked to many health problems, including those of a psychological nature. The study involved interviews with 3,134, 11 to 17 year old kids. More than twenty-five percent of the children had one or […]

Anyone who works as much as I do has to have some level of anxiety to keep on going. If I wasn’t worried about getting everything done, keeping a tight schedule and maintaining a clean and organized home, then probably I would be slacking-off, sitting on my can missing appointments and living in a […]

What do you do when 80% to 90% of your population that has severe depression or anxiety never received adequate treatment? If you’re India with a strapped health budget, you do what you can with what you have.
In this case, a program financed by the Wellcome Trust has treated over 2,000 people in India with […]

No, it’s not a medical term, but with the widespread acceptance of alcohol and drug use and societal pressures to maintain a thin physique, drunkorexia may be the next big “trendy” disorder. A New York Times article titled “Starving Themselves, Cocktail in Hand” reports on this new problem.
Drunkorexia is not an official […]

The practice of acupuncture is believed to have been developed in China and has been around for centuries to treat many common physical ailments. Recently though, acupuncture has been gaining momentum in mental health applications as well.
A New York Times article reports that acupuncture and “ear seeds” in particular is a growing […]

A recent article posted on Science Daily reported on research in which scientists studied treatment patterns for insomniacs. The scientists’ findings suggest that doctors are less likely to prescribe sleep aids, even those without risk of dependence, to insomniacs who also suffer from disorders such as depression or anxiety. The data showed these […]

A study by a Harvard University professor published in the British Journal of Psychiatry reports that risk factors for suicide are consistent across seventeen countries. According to the study, the risk factors for suicidal thoughts, plans and attempts are; being female, having a mental disorder, being unmarried and being younger and less educated. […]

A recent post on The Wall Street Journal’s health blog is a review of “The lives they left behind: Suitcases from a state hospital attic”, which is now on display at the New York Public library through the month of January. The display features items left behind from patients who stayed at Willard State […]

Anyone who has ever said that working full time and going to school is easy, must be as close to super-human as it gets. For the past two and a half years I’ve been doing it and every single day I ask myself why. Well, once I made it through the first semester I […]

New research was published yesterday that shows that if you’ve got what the researchers call “anxious depression,” your treatment will likely be less effective than if you had just plain depression without anxiety. More than half of the people enrolled in the STAR*D trial (results of which were published in 2006) would qualify as having […]