Dayton Daily News (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
When Gov. Ted Strickland approved the June 2008 closure of Dayton’s Twin Valley Behavioral Healthcare on Wayne Avenue, ending a 153-year history, it was with the promise that local people with severe mental illness would still have access to state hospital care, though they’d have to go to Cincinnati to get it.
Beyond Meds (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Printed with permission from John Breeding. See his website here. My purpose in this short essay is twofold. The first is to describe my understanding of the nature of psychological distress and emotional healing. The second is to expose the truth about our modern mental health system, call it Psychiatry, which diagnoses citizens as “mentally ill” [...]
eChurchWebsites Blog (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Guest post from the Christian Mental Health Website Team:- This is the anniversary of a Christian brother (Justin Robert Thomas) who suffered from mental illness and sadly committed suicide this time last year. As a result of his death the Christian Mental health website was set up for Christian mental health sufferers, carers and professionals and has [...]
WAAY - WAAY News and Home (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Associated Press - November 21, 2009 12:45 PM ET BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) - Police and emergency responders around the nation have long struggled to deal with people who have mental illness.
INSTAPUTZ (Free subscription) | yesterday
The latest from the 20-percenters. Anyone who believes that this woman [Palin] could not perform the duties of President adequately must have some kind of mental illness, which is likely liberalism. Turns out there's a whole lotta crazy liburls in this country . Fewer than three in 10 Americans think Sarah Palin's qualified to be president, according to a new national poll - the least of any of the...
Covering Health (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Phyllis Vine at MIWatch.org, a site that follows news about mental illness, asks whether drug company disclosures about payments made to doctors go far enough and whether anyone actually pays attention to such disclosures. Vine raises the question of doctors taking part in "educational settings, including grand rounds, courses at professional ...
Grits for Breakfast (Free subscription) | yesterday
Yesterday morning I heard a provocative and informative talk at the Texas Judicial Advisory Council's biennial sentencing conference from Dr. Jennifer Skeem , who is a member of the MacArthur Research Network on Mandated Community Treatment, and Centers for Psychology and Law and Evidence-Based Corrections, on the subject of "Mental Health and Sentencing." Here are some of the highlights...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
Police and emergency responders around the nation have long struggled to deal with people who have mental illness. Now some say the situation is getting worse.
publishaletter.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Dear Editor: I cannot help but wonder how sentencing Jeff Bastien to what could amount to a life sentence for mental dysfunction serves the community. While not minimizing the incidents he was involved in I feel strongly that this is what happens when Mental Issues collide with the justice system. Jeffrey is a perfect candidate for a mental hospital. Jeff Bastien is not a degenerate, nor trash, nor...
A Day in the Life (Free subscription) | yesterday
I have been thinking recently about how the stigma surrounding mental ill health directly affects me, and I have come to the conclusion that, despite suffering certain unfairness early on in my illness, from friends, family and I have to say, mental health services themselves, the discrimination I now face seems less "real", in that it is anticipated, rather than actual. In fact, it could...
Papa Mike's Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Sarah Palin told Bill O’Reilly that it is ridiculous for Obama to be going around the world bowing down and apologizing for America. Ouch. From the video: Anyone who believes that this woman could not perform the duties of President adequately must have some kind of mental illness, which is likely liberalism. Here’s the [...]
bse (Free subscription) | yesterday
Perfectionism Trading is not about perfection. It is about probability and progress. All charts, analyses (fundamental and technical) and trading plans are built on probabilities. Why then, do so many traders strive for perfection? Why do so many traders miss trades, waiting for exactly the right entry and then beat up on themselves when it doesn't come and the position runs away while they sit there...
Historical Tapestry (Free subscription) | yesterday
Rachel, a young prostitute enjoys the peace and beauty of the city garden in Arles. She falls asleep there and when she awakes, she finds a man sketching her. He turns out to be none other than Vincent Van Gogh. After their first encounter, Vincent visits Rachel at her brothel, 1, Rue du Bout d'Arles. He comes with a bouquet of wild flowers in hopes of convincing Rachel to let him paint her. This is...
Monday Morning Crisis Quarterback (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
The U.S. military is undertaking a large research project using its own soldiers to see if there is a way to predict who will suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. They are screening hundreds of soldiers before they deploy, including their baseline stress rate, brain scans, family histories and past history of mental illness, and will be looking to see if any factor or combination of factors...
Celebrity Psychings (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Back in May, I told you about Mary Forsberg Weiland’s then-upcoming memoir, Fall to Pieces: A Memoir of Drugs, Rock ‘N’ Roll & Mental Illness. The book has since released and there’s been an increase in attention paid to that particular Celebrity Psychings post, which is sort of unfortunate because, well, it doesn’t exactly offer any “news.” This morning,...
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