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Former Senate President Pro Tempore Darrell Steinberg is touting a report on the effects of the Mental Health Services Act, citing declines in hospitalizations, homelessness and arrests among individuals […]

Cynthia Good Mojab, MS, LMHCA, IBCLC, RLC, CATSM, reviews Dr. Karraa's book and interviews her in a three-part series on “Transformed by Postpartum Depression: Women's Stories of Trauma and Growth.” Today … […]

So the other day on the Fox show, Empire, one of the main characters experienced a bipolar episode, and on Twitter, a mental health advocate went into rant mode. The character was Andre, and the Twitter rant […]

Theatre provides stimulus for psychotic, schizophrenic and depressed patients, but can it improve their mental health?

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Theatre provides stimulus for psychotic, schizophrenic and depressed patients, but can it improve their mental health?

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Theatre provides stimulus for psychotic, schizophrenic and depressed patients, but can it improve their mental health? … Yet this is to miss the point, since Pordeus is an activist as much as a doctor; he […]

“My daughter exhibits many behaviors classic to PTSD: she avoids hospitals like the plague (we don't even talk about them, or watch shows with hospitals in them), she has a hard time leaving her Dad's side, a […]

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One hundred cases with bipolar disorder (BD) diagnosis according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition (DSM-IV) were evaluated consecutively in their euthymic period during […]

The presence of preexisting hypomanic episodes, the presence of a positive family history of bipolar disorder, the absence of associated neurovegetative symptoms, and the fact that ayahuasca psychotic episodes […]

Bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder are two different conditions that are often confused with each other because both include some similar symptoms.

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News. Center for Disability Rights to Assist Any Individual Impacted by Home Care Information Breach and Calls Upon Local Legal Community to Support This Effort. October 20, 2015. Statement of the Center for […]

News. Guidance on new mental health standards published. 13 February 2015 – 10:28. NHS England has set out guidance for how new access and waiting time standards for mental health services are to be […]

The introduction of the access and waiting time standards for mental health marks the start of a new era in England's mental health services and in its healthcare system. It is the start of the end of the low […]

Post-traumatic stress disorder has been a recognized condition in combat veterans since 1983. Women make up 17 percent of the U.S. armed forces, and since 2001, 280,000 women in the military have been deployed […]

With assisted suicide bills pending in many states, disability rights advocates are needed to help oppose them. Not Dead Yet Colorado just played a pivotal role in defeating an assisted suicide bill in that […]

The higher mortality rates experienced by people with mental illness largely result not from suicide or mental illness per se, but from poor overall health. Researchers trace this poor health largely to the […]

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