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  • Jeremy wrote a new post 9 years, 11 months ago

    A Christmas sweater sold at Target has come under fire,Time Magazine reported on Tuesday.

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    Target accused of making joke of mental illness with sweater …

  • Jeremy wrote a new post 9 years, 11 months ago

    Mental health services are under “huge pressure”, a leading think tank has said, as it called for an end to cuts which it said could be responsible for a decline in the quality of care in the […]

  • Jeremy wrote a new post 9 years, 11 months ago

    Mental health budget cuts putting services under 'huge pressure'. Evidence of poor quality care is widespread, with less 20% of people feeling they received appropriate support in a crisis, says thinktank. […]

  • Jeremy wrote a new post 9 years, 11 months ago

    WALNUT CREEK (KRON) — In a new program, veterans suffering from PTSD are being paired with pets facing euthanization. And in the process, both are helping each other heal. KRON's Alecia Reid went to Walnut C […]

  • Jeremy wrote a new post 9 years, 11 months ago

    University administrators joined students and faculty in the Donna E. Shalala Student Center to raise awareness about mental health and the resources available on campus. The inaugural mental health forum was […]

  • Jeremy wrote a new post 9 years, 11 months ago

    The horror of combat is something many veterans live with, but a new study at UCLA is underway to see if administering mild electrical currents into the brain can reset its networks for those dealing with […]

  • Jeremy wrote a new post 9 years, 11 months ago

    Regardless of one's opinion of war, most people can agree that taking care of soldiers when they come home is literally the least we can do. But soldiers are coming back with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, […]

  • Jeremy wrote a new post 9 years, 11 months ago

    However, as Lyle, a full-time student at Texas A&M, told TheBlaze, the VA does not provide service dogs for veterans suffering with a mental disability after returning from active duty, such as PTSD. Lyle said […]

  • Jeremy wrote a new post 9 years, 11 months ago

    I hadn't been working in mental health for long, and had been shocked to discover that often the local area, even if it was the capital city, would have no available inpatient beds. Patients would have to be […]

  • Jeremy wrote a new post 9 years, 11 months ago

    A Christmas sweater sold at Target has come under fire, Time Magazine reported on Tuesday.

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    Target accused of making joke out of mental illness with sweater …

  • Jeremy wrote a new post 9 years, 11 months ago

    Target is being accused online of being insensitive toward those with mental illness because it is selling a sweatshirt bearing the phrase “Obsessive Christmas Disorder.” Target is being accused online of bei […]

  • Jeremy wrote a new post 9 years, 11 months ago

    Canadian researchers found kids whose parents have panic disorder make more errors recognizing fearful faces, and misattributed fear and angry expressions as surprised. Girls also made more errors reading sad […]

  • Jeremy wrote a new post 9 years, 11 months ago

    In 2014 about 5-10% of deployed military working dogs showed signs of canine PTSD – but the disorder can affect dogs far away from battlefields too.

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    Canine PTSD: how the US m […]

  • Jeremy wrote a new post 9 years, 11 months ago

    American psychologists are hoping to treat veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) with a recommendation so well-worn by family physicians, it almost seems mundane: exercise. The nascent field of […]

  • Jeremy wrote a new post 9 years, 11 months ago

    Imagine waking up to a beautiful newborn. Or maybe you didn't wake up because you never went to sleep. You see this amazing little human, and you start to worry. Am I feeding him right? What if I'm doing […]

  • Jeremy wrote a new post 9 years, 11 months ago

    Again, I need to start with a disclaimer, lest all the armchair psychiatrists out there start diagnosing everyone you know. The Cluster B personality disorders are defined by drama, erratic and emotional […]

  • Jeremy wrote a new post 9 years, 11 months ago

    That's the reality faced by some mental health patients under Community Treatment Orders (CTOs) because of a perceived lack of empathy and understanding among some of the workers meant to be helping them, […]

  • Jeremy wrote a new post 9 years, 11 months ago

    Some consumers argued that that the sweater made light of mental illness. Over 2 million adults in the U.S. suffer from obsessive compulsive disorder. For more on OCD and other mental health issues, head over […]

  • Jeremy wrote a new post 9 years, 11 months ago

    Today, awareness and understanding of PTSD informs the public's view of veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars — even with the gaps in treatment and service that exist. Public service announcements talking […]

  • Jeremy wrote a new post 9 years, 11 months ago

    A lethal mix: how work-related social pressures and taboos around mental illness ravage white-collar workers in Japan.

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    Overworked to suicide

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