Category Archives: Mental Health Awareness

Self-Compassion: The Secret to Reducing PTSD Symptoms?

PTSD research investigating self-compassion and mindfulness practices in lowering trauma symptoms in patients suffering from post-traumatic stress.

Is Training Service Dogs a Potential PTSD Therapy?

Bethesda, MD (HDSIAC) — Approximately 7-8% of Americans are affected by post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) at some point in their lifetimes. Military personnel exposed to trauma are at a particularly high risk for …

Mental Health Bill Caters to Big Pharma and Would Expand …

Murphy Bill proponents point to a lack of institutionally or medically directed mental health treatment as being a primary cause of the alarming rise of violent acts such as school shootings and suicide. However, when we look …

Mental Health Bill Caters to Big Pharma and Would Expand – Truthout

Murphy Bill proponents point to a lack of institutionally or medically directed mental health treatment as being a primary cause of the alarming rise of violent acts such as school shootings and suicide. However, when we look …

The News Tribune editorializes: Move legislation to improve mental …

The News Tribune editorializes: Move legislation to improve mental health services … Western State is just a small piece of a larger, national failure to provide adequate mental health services. The symptoms of that failure …