Higher Death Rates for the Mentally Ill Researchers have found higher-than-expected death rates from physical health problems for people with mental illness. Dr. Alex Mitchell of ...
Changing Media Depictions of Mental Illness The perceptions of mental illnesses have come a long way from their characterization as untreatable maladies, thus forcing the suffering ...
The Psychopath Test: A Journey through the Madness Industry The Psychopath Test: A Journey through the Madness Industry by UK-based journalist Jon Ronson (famous for the book-turned-movie The Men Who Stare at Goats) starts out with a mystery. Someone has sent a bunch of ...
Myths About Suicide In May 2007 a young woman in Oklahoma died of a gunshot wound to the head. Whether it was self-inflicted or not was not apparent. Her family hoped to prove that it wasn’t self-inflicted and ...
Lack of Safety Net for LGBT Couples Causes Stress The "straight safety net" involves both hetero-normative assumptions and heterosexual privilege (defined below). These create often-unacknowledged ...
Psychiatric Tales: Eleven Graphic Stories About Mental Illness Before beginning a review of Psychiatric Tales: Eleven Graphic Stories About Mental Illness, this reviewer feels that it is necessary to disclose that it is the very first graphic novel she has ever read. Keeping ...
The Preference for “Natural” It will probably come as no surprise that many Americans prefer "natural" to "artificial" when it comes to ...
Suicide and the Military When someone commits suicide, it’s a tragedy. When we are losing more soldiers to suicide than to ...
Eliminate Outdated Attitudes on Mental Health Spring is a time for new beginnings. This year, let’s celebrate the season with a new approach to America’s mental health -- one that will save Americans much shame and suffering even as ...
Tipper Gore on Mental Illness Speech given at Grand Rounds, Department of Psychiatry
Dartmouth Hitchcook Medical Center
Thursday, January 14, 1999
Good afternoon and thank you, Dr. Silberfarb for the kind introduction
It's great ...
After Her Brain Broke: Helping My Daughter Recover Her Sanity As mental illness becomes less stigmatized, many individuals are coming out and sharing their experiences with a variety of disorders. The majority of books published on the topic are personal accounts of their struggles. Susan ...
Depression Is Contagious Essentially a self-help book for ordinary people who may be looking for ways to overcome depression, Michael D. Yapko, Ph.D.'s Depression Is Contagious also offers those in the mental health world practical tools for their ...
Bipolar Disorder and the Americans with Disabilities Act The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was amended in 2008 to include bipolar disorder as a covered condition.
The original 1988 law was designed to protect people with disabilities from discrimination in hiring, job assignments, ...
Classroom Adaptations for ADHD Students Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a behavioral problem that starts during childhood and affects three to five percent of school-aged children.
Children with ADHD may qualify for special education services under two laws: the Individuals ...
Meeting the Needs of Special Needs Kids “I wish the system didn’t force me to be mean.” Jyl, the mom of a child with special needs, is in anguish. Not only is she managing her challenged – and challenging ...
Applying for State-Assisted Health Insurance, Part 2 1/7/10
My first complete week without health insurance. As I still had hope I would be on Commonwealth Choice for February, I started researching when the last day of the current month is that you ...
Applying for State-Assisted Health Insurance, Part 1 In early December, my employer kicked me off of their group health insurance plan. While it was a terrible plan with high co-pays and many uncovered services, it was better than no health plan ...
Women and Violence The impact of violence against women is too often masked by silence. Its continuation depends on silence. Distance keeps us safe and unless one personally experiences violence or knows someone who has, many of us ...
Media’s Damaging Depictions of Mental Illness A man who suffers from schizophrenia goes on a shooting spree in Times Square and later stabs a pregnant physician in the stomach. These are the opening scenes from Wonderland, a drama set in the ...
Health Insurance: The Eternal Battle Health insurance is a subject that weighs on me and keeps me up at night. Every once in a while my insurance situation is sorted out and the worry briefly lifts, then something happens ...
National Association for Dually Diagnosed Celebrates 25 Years People with both intellectual disability and mental illness are a small population -- less than one percent of people worldwide. But it’s a small population with very big needs.
In 1983, Robert Fletcher, DSW, ACSW ...
