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| This page provides links to current news stories relating to serious mental illness and mental health. NAMI California is not responsible for the views expressed by the authors. Click on the title to view the full text. | |
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| | | | Growing Up Bipolar | CNN | 08/31/2010 | | Jennifer Konjoian was 10 years old when she put a plastic bag over her head. She remembers doing it impulsively, for no other reason than to get attention. |  |
| | | | Lawmakers Take Up Competing Budget Plans | CBS News | 08/31/2010 | | California lawmakers on Tuesday began their overdue debate about how to close a $19 billion budget deficit, casting their differences as a struggle over the future of the nation's most populous state. | |
| | | | Brain's Default Mode Network May Hold Key To Better Psychiatric Diagnoses | The Los Angeles Times | 08/30/2010 | | A series of studies published in recent years suggests that in people with depression, autism, schizophrenia and post-traumatic stress disorder, the default mode network, that curious pattern of brain activity that ramps up when we daydream, works differently than it does in healthy control subjects. | |
| | | | Drug For Sleepless Vets Raises Questions | Military.com | 08/30/2010 | | Andrew White returned from a nine-month tour in Iraq beset with signs of post-traumatic stress disorder: insomnia, nightmares, constant restlessness. Doctors tried to ease his symptoms using three psychiatric drugs, including a potent anti-pyschotic called Seroquel. | |
| | | | Higher Rates Of Depression Found Among Low-Income New Mothers | Medical News Today | 08/29/2010 | | More than 50% of infants in poverty are raised by mothers with mild to severe depression, which could contribute to problems in parenting and child development, according to a study by the Washington, D.C.-based Urban Institute, the Washington Post reports. | |
| | | | Phoenix Rising In Santa Monica | The Inland Daily Bulletin | 08/27/2010 | | Every journey starts with taking that first step. Cindy Angulo is asking you to walk alongside her. | |
| | | | Military Mental Health Issues Now At Epidemic Proportions | USA TODAY | 08/24/2010 | | Nine months after an Army psychiatrist was charged with fatally shooting 13 soldiers and wounding 30, the nation's largest Army post can measure the toll of war in the more than 10,000 mental health evaluations, referrals or therapy sessions held every month. | |
| | | | The Pathway Home Makes Inroads In Treating PTSD | Smithsonian Magazine | 08/23/2010 | | They went off to war brimming with confidence and eager for the fight in Iraq and Afghanistan. They returned, many of them, showing no visible wounds but utterly transformed by combat—with symptoms of involuntary trembling, irritability, restlessness, depression, nightmares, flashbacks, insomnia, emotional numbness, sensitivity to noise, and, all too often, a tendency to seek relief in alcohol, drugs or suicide. | |
| | | | Fighting Stigma In Silicon Valley | The Mercury News | 08/20/2010 | | For many, the words "mental health treatment" are embarrassing, but one Cupertino nonprofit is working to lessen that stigma and reach out to local youth in need of help. | |
| | | | Paying It Backward | USA Today | 08/17/2010 | | Even after they grow up, some kids don't stop giving their parents grief. And new research presented Thursday shows that an adult child with problems has a negative impact on a parent's mental health, even if the family's other kids are successful. | |
| | | | Creativity and Schizophrenia: The Definite Link | Health Central | 08/15/2010 | | Researchers at the Karolinska Institute's department of women's and children's health in Stockholm have proven a link between creativity and schizophrenia. They studied the brain and the dopamine D2 receptors and discovered that the dopamine system of healthy, highly creative people mirrors that found in people with schizophrenia. | |
| | | | College Campuses See Rise In Cases Of Severe Mental Illness | HealthDay News | 08/12/2010 | | More cases of severe mental illness are being reported among college students than a decade ago, as more young people with mental health issues tackle a post-secondary education and are open to getting help when they need it, a new U.S. study shows. | |
| | | | An Advocate For Those With Mental Illnesses | The San Fancisco Chronicle | 08/11/2010 | | It's been nearly 40 years since Rosalynn Carter met a weary and stooped woman leaving her night-shift job at a cotton mill in Georgia. The woman told Carter, who was campaigning for her husband, Jimmy, then running for governor, that she was heading home to care for her mentally ill daughter. | |
| | | | One Family and Its Legacy Of Pain | The New York Times | 08/11/2010 | | The paved road has given way to dirt. At its narrowest stretches, with trees all around and hints of the craggy Maine shoreline ahead, it most likely looks the way it did when Millicent Monks’s great-grandfather first bought the entire island, in the 1890s. | |
| | | | Senators Propose HITECH Incentives For Mental Health | Information Week | 08/10/2010 | | A bill proposing to extend Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) financial incentives for e-health record use by mental health professionals has been introduced into the U.S. Senate. | |
| | | | Internet Counseling Aids Mental Health | Psych Central | 08/09/2010 | | Internet Counseling Aids Mental HealthA new study has found that psychiatrists can accurately assess a patient’s mental health by viewing web-based or e-mail files. | |
| | | | High Rate Of Eating Disorders In Bipolar Patients | Psych Central | 08/05/2010 | | Eating disorders appear to occur more frequently in individuals with bipolar disorder. According to a recent study, more than 14 percent of patients with bipolar disorder also suffer from an eating disorder, and these individuals are likely to have a more severe course of illness. | |
| | | | Mental Health Checkup On Media Coverage | The Huffington Post | 08/05/2010 | | After the recent shooting rampage in Manchester, Conn., one might have expected the mainstream media to speculate about the mental health of the gunman. | |
| | | | Ketamine Lifts Mood Quickly In Bipolar Disorder | Reuters | 08/03/2010 | | An infusion of the anesthetic ketamine can lift mood within minutes in patients suffering from severe bipolar depression, according to a small study out this month in the Archives of General Psychiatry. | |
| | | | Yes, We Can | NAMI California | 08/01/2010 | | On July 26, NAMI California Board Member Keris Myrick attended the White House Ceremony in celebration of the 20th Anniversary of the Americans with Disibilities Act. This is her account. | |
| | | | Nearly 1 In 5 Californians Report Need For Mental Health Services | The UCLA Center for Health Policy Research | 07/28/2010 | | In a comprehensive new study on mental health status and the use of mental health services by Californians, researchers at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research found that nearly one in five adults in the state — about 4.9 million people — said they needed help for a mental or emotional health problem. | |
| | | | NAMI California Pioneer Eve Oliphant and Her Empowering Legacy | NAMI California | 07/27/2010 | | In a speech before the World Congress on Psychiatry in 1977, California resident Eve Oliphant, told medical leaders: “We failed to understand why parents of a child with leukemia were treated with sympathy and understanding, while parents of a child with schizophrenia were treated with scorn and condemnation.” | |
| | | | 'Hello, Nathaniel' | The Los Angeles Times | 07/26/2010 | | In those early days after we met 5 1/2 years ago, when Nathaniel Ayers slept on the streets of skid row, he was a dreamer. He'd play a two-string violin at the feet of the Beethoven statue and imagine a day when he would figure out how to get the two missing strings, or a day when he might visit a concert hall or play well enough to draw an audience. | |
| | | | Mental Illness Costing Military Soldiers | USA TODAY | 07/23/2010 | | The number of soldiers forced to leave the Army solely because of a mental disorder has increased by 64% from 2005 to 2009 and accounts for one in nine medical discharges, according to Army statistics. | |
| | | | Taking To The Stage To Battle Mental Illness | HealthDay | 07/22/2010 | | In small theater spaces across the United States, people fighting psychiatric illness are learning that acting can be a powerful form of therapy, while the shows they put on help educate audiences through deeply personal accounts of mental health issues. | |
| | | | PTSD Peaks At Different Ages In Men, Women | HealthDay News | 07/21/2010 | | Women are most vulnerable to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) between ages 51 and 55, while men are more prone to the condition from ages 41 to 45, a new study finds. | |
| | | | Mom's Alcoholism Especially Tough On Daughter's Mental Health | HealthDay News | 07/20/2010 | | The risk that children of an alchoholic parent run of developing a psychiatric illness later in life may depend, in part, on their gender and whether it was their mother or father who was alcohol-dependent, a new study finds. | |
| | | | Advocate For Recovery To Meet With Obama | The Charlotte Observer | 07/16/2010 | | Mike Weaver, a Charlotte, NC man who lives with bipolar disorder and works to help others cope with mental illness, has been invited to attend an event at the White House with President Barack Obama. | |
| | | | Mental Health Woes Grow While Spending Declines | Eurekalert | 07/15/2010 | | As the current global economic crisis drives up the demand for mental health care services, cash-strapped agencies are slashing mental health budgets, according to a new Brandeis University study out this month in the International Journal of Mental Health. However, while most nations are cutting spending, a handful of countries are earmarking funding to meet the anticipated growth in mental health problems. | |
| | | | Palo Alto Teachers To Learn About Mental Illness | The Mercury News | 07/14/2010 | | A community task force created in response to a series of teenage suicides on the Caltrain tracks in Palo Alto issued a report this week recommending that the city and school district each assign a senior-level employee to steer youth mental health and suicide prevention efforts. | |
| | | | Fighting Stigma and Raising Awareness Among Hispanics | The Hispanic PR Blog | 07/13/2010 | | The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration has partnered with The Advertising Council to promote recovery from mental health problems within the Hispanic/Latino community by educating and inspiring young adults to talk openly about issues of mental health. | |
| | | | Depression May Double Dementia Risk | The BBC | 07/06/2010 | | Having depression may nearly double the risk of developing dementia later in life, new research suggests. Experts know that the two conditions often co-exist, but it is not clear if one actually leads to the other. | |
| | | | Activity and Mental Health In Women | the New York Times | 07/05/2010 | | People who are physically active appear to be at lower risk for cognitive impairment late in life, and for women, a new study suggests, physical activity during the teenage years may provide the greatest benefit. | |
| | | | What You Need To Know About Childhood Depression | Parenting.com | 07/04/2010 | | My daughter Rachel is sitting silently ten feet away from me, stroking our cat. It's a hot summer day and nearby her siblings are all splashing in our new pool. Why isn't my 11-year-old with them? | |
| | | | Recovery From Serious Mental Illness | The Huffington Post | 07/03/2010 | | When I asked him what got him engaged in the program and making a life after all the years on its margins he said, "they did what they said, for over a year, then I trusted them." | |
| | | | NAMI Changed My Life | Pete Early.com | 06/28/2010 | | When I was a Washington Post reporter, I did not believe in joining groups or organizations. I needed to be independent in order to be objective. Then my son, Mike, got sick and the first thing I did after I finished writing my book, CRAZY: A Father’s Search Through America’s Mental Health Madness, was join the National Alliance on Mental Illness. | |
| | | | Inside Stanislaus County Mental Health Treatment Court | The Modesto Bee | 06/28/2010 | | Strung out on methamphetamine, Kevin Wellington weighed 98 pounds one year ago. He'd been to jail four times and wasn't taking medication for his bipolar disorder and depression. Wellington acted out by breaking things and crashing his car. | |
| | | | Do You Really Need Medication? Stigma Makes It Okay To Ask | Psychology Today | 06/25/2010 | | Once or twice a week I leave my writerly nook and go out as part of a team of speakers to workplaces, community centers, high schools, universities and health centers to raise awareness about the harm done by continuing the stigma towards those in our society with a mental illness. After a few months on the SOLVE campaign, I'm aware that the problem is much bigger than I realized. | |
| | | | Doctors Grow Uneasy About Treating Mental Illness | Medscape | 06/21/2010 | | Primary care physicians report that they do not feel competent to diagnose bipolar disorder or manage a treatment plan for patients with the disease, according to new research presented here at the New Clinical Drug Evaluation Unit (NCDEU) 50th Anniversary Meeting. | |
| | | | Sacramento County Looks At Vastly Smaller Mental Health Hospital | The Sacramento Bee | 06/20/2010 | | Sacramento County's mental hospital, the centerpiece of the region's system for treating severely ill psychiatric patients, would have no more than 16 inpatient beds under a plan that officials argue would raise revenue and provide better care. | |
| | | | Is Exercise The Best Drug For Depression? | Time | 06/19/2010 | | At his research clinic in Dallas, psychologist Jasper Smits is working on a somewhat unorthodox treatment for depression. It is not yet widely accepted, but his treatment is free and has no side effects. | |
| | | | Sacramento County Board Of Supervisors View Deep Cuts | The Sacramento Bee | 06/16/2010 | | It was another afternoon of bad news and grim testimony Tuesday before the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors, who are staring at a $122 million budget deficit for the fiscal year that begins July 1. | |
| | | | U.S. Supreme Court To Review Schwarzenegger V. Plata | The Los Angeles Times | 06/14/2010 | | The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday said it will review whether California must cut its prison population by nearly 40,000 inmates to improve medical and mental health care, escalating a legal battle that has been playing out for two decades. | |
| | | | Budget Ax Falling On Mental Health Patients | Lompoc Record | 06/11/2010 | | The Alcohol, Drug and Mental Health Services (ADMHS) Department has a serious money problem that has already started affecting clients throughout Santa Barbara County. | |
| | | | Which Comes First: Obesity or Depression? | The Los Angeles Times | 06/10/2010 | | Obesity and depression are often linked, but it's not clear whether one condition tends to precede the other. One new study suggests depression may help cause obesity, but obesity doesn't necessarily cause depression. | |
| | | | Bipolar Recovery More Likely In Those Married, Better Educated | Psych Central | 06/09/2010 | | Fewer than half of patients with bipolar disorder achieve functional recovery, report researchers who note that married patients, those with greater education, and those with fewer years of illness are more likely to recover. | |
| | | | Behavioral Health Court At Peril | The San Francisco Chronicle | 06/03/2010 | | Why is Mayor Gavin Newsom proposing cuts to mental health treatment for those with the most serious mental illness? | |
| | | | A Prison Crisis In California | The Huffington Post | 06/02/2010 | | The National Sheriff's Association and the Treatment Advocacy Center's disturbing report has sounded yet another alarm about our need to stop incarcerating people who are seriously mentally ill. | |
| | | | People With Schizophrenia OK With Doctors | Psych Central | 06/01/2010 | | A new survey suggests 80 percent of patients with schizophrenia say their psychiatrists do well or very well in treating them with courtesy and respect. | |
| | | | California VA Center Hosts TBI Research | The Contra Costa Times | 06/01/2010 | | The young ex-Marine may never forget the explosions from his first tour, in Fallujah, but he can't seem to recall much else. | |
| | | | Time To Quit | EurekAlert | 05/26/2010 | | In a study published today in the journal Addiction, researchers have determined that treatment for smoking dependence is as effective among people with severe mental illnesses as it is for the general population. Importantly, they also found that offering such treatments does not appear to cause deterioration in mental health. | |
| | | | Dental Care Often Overlooked In Treatment | Doctor's Guide | 05/24/2010 | | Although patients with schizophrenia are just as likely to go see a dentist as people in the general population, patients tend to have more dental complaints that may be overlooked by clinicians. | |
| | | | Diagnosing Kids' Mental Health Issues A Complex Task | CNN | 05/24/2010 | | As medical director for the National Alliance on Mental Illness as well as a child psychiatrist, I appreciate this opportunity to address some of the issues raised on May 11 by the California mother who asked, "Who can help my bipolar 6-year-old?" | |
| | | | Traumatic Brain Injuries Linked To Depression | The Los Angeles Times | 05/19/2010 | | In the year after a traumatic brain injury, roughly half of survivors will likely experience a bout of clinical depression — a rate almost eight times higher than that found in the general population, a study published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Assn. has found. | |
| | | | Memoir Tackles Stigma Of Mental Illness | The San Ramon Patch | 05/18/2010 | | When Peggy Kennedy was 5 years old, her mother tried to kill her. It wasn't a malicious attempt. Her mom wanted to take Kennedy and her four older siblings to Neverland through asphyxiation. A neighbor saved the children that day from the mother's morbid fantasy, a symptom of acute bipolar disorder. | |
| | | | New Film About Schizophrenia On PBS | Psych Central | 05/17/2010 | | Just in time for National Mental Health Month: We are fortunate to have the opportunity to speak with Katie Cadigan, producer of an important new documentary, narrated by Rita Moreno, titled When Medicine Got It Wrong. | |
| | | | President's Message | NAMI California | 05/17/2010 | | The past few months at NAMI California have been very productive. We have provided testimony at the Senate and Assembly committee meetings regarding many of the cuts the State is proposing to mental health funding. Our members from both Northern and Southern California were instrumental in the legislature’s decision to oppose the Governor’s proposal for a June ballot initiative that would have diverted MHSA mental health funds to the General Fund. | |
| | | | It's Time To Debunk "Top Ten Myths About Mental Illness" | Marketwire | 05/15/2010 | | They are not just suffering from teenage angst. They are our children. They are your family members and colleagues. They are thousands of young people and adolescents suffering from the onset of mental illness. | |
| | | | Recovery Becoming A Reality | The Ventura County Star | 05/15/2010 | | Mental illness affects people of all ages, races, and backgrounds — our neighbors, co-workers and perhaps even our family members. Research indicates that one in four adults experience a mental-health issue in any given year. | |
| | | | Stigma Ain't What It Used To Be | The Huffington Post | 05/13/2010 | | "I am now the most miserable man living. Whether I shall ever be better I cannot tell; I awfully forebode I shall not. To remain as I am is impossible; I must die or be better." | |
| | | | Supporting Awareness Of Mental Illness | The Visalia Times | 05/12/2010 | | Nearly 50 volunteers from area mental-rehabilitation homes gave their time and energy Wednesday to an organization that has helped many of them over the years. Just days after FoodLink collected 15,000 pounds of food during a food drive, it was up to the volunteers to unpack the goods, check expiration dates and prepare food boxes that will end up in homes throughout Tulare County. | |
| | | | The Media Is The Message For The Mentally Ill | The Huffington Post | 05/11/2010 | | Behind the comfortable chair in Dr. Michelle Golland's Hancock Park office is a print of a white rose, evocative of the work of Georgia O'Keeffe, which echoes the black rose corsage on Golland's black dress. | |
| | | | Los Angeles Filmmaker Documents Brother's Mental Illness | The Merced Sun-Star | 05/10/2010 | | When Jonas Daughdrill was 19 he started hearing voices. They didn't say good things. They told him he had been hypnotized. They told him other things, too. Soon afterward, he was diagnosed with schizophrenia and put on heavy medication. | |
| | | | Fight Erupts Over Rules Issued For Mental Health Parity Insurance Law | The New York Times | 05/09/2010 | | A huge fight has erupted over rules issued by the Obama administration to enforce a 2008 law that requires equal insurance coverage for the treatment of mental and physical illnesses. The fight offers a taste of the coming battle over rules to remake the health care system under legislation pushed through Congress by President Obama. | |
| | | | Groups Sue Sacramento County To Halt Mental Health Cuts | The Sacramento Bee | 05/07/2010 | | Disability rights groups are asking the federal court to intervene on behalf of thousands of Sacramento County mental patients who may soon be forced out of their community treatment programs because of budget cuts. | |
| | | | Early Diagnosis In Schizophrenia | Eurekalert | 05/05/2010 | | Children normally experience flights of fancy, including imaginary friends and conversations with stuffed animals, but some of them are also having hallucinations and delusions which might be the early signs of psychosis. | |
| | | | Prospects Dim For Including Psychosis Risk In DSM-5 | MedPage Today | 05/05/2010 | | A potentially less stigmatizing name isn't likely to put the controversial designation of "psychosis risk syndrome" into the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Diseases (DSM-5), a researcher suggests. | |
| | | | Solving The Mental Health Crisis | The Huffington Post | 05/04/2010 | | When I was a child in Plains, everyone knew everyone else in town. Church and school were the center of our community and were strong and positive influences on my life and those of my siblings and friends. So much has changed since then. The social fabric I took for granted no longer exists. | |
| | | | Magnet Treatment For Depression Works For Some | WebMD Health News | 05/04/2010 | | A controversial new treatment for depression, rTMS, helps some patients, a rigorous government-funded study finds. The treatment is called repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation. | |
| | | | Children Can Display Symptoms Of Psychosis | Psych Central | 05/03/2010 | | A new study of British 12-year-olds suggests that nearly six percent may be showing at least one definite symptom of psychosis. Children were asked whether they had ever seen things or heard voices that weren’t really there, and then asked careful followup questions. | |
| | | | Genetic Changes Show Up In People With PTSD | Science News | 05/03/2010 | | People with post-traumatic stress disorder seem to accumulate an array of genetic changes different from those found in healthy people, researchers report online May 3 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. | |
| | | | Welcome To The Jungle | PRWeb | 05/02/2010 | | In Hilary Smith's new book she provides a true insider's view of life with bipolar and offers up street-level self-help to young people diagnosed with it. | |
| | | | Six Ways To Help People With Mental Illnesses | Care2.com | 05/01/2010 | | Bipolar is one of the most commonly diagnosed psychiatric conditions among teens and twenty-somethings, but there has been little written about it, and few people know how to approach the topic. | |
| | | | Study Links Chocolate and Depression | Los Angeles Times | 04/27/2010 | | One need only look at the recent introduction of chocolate Cheerios to fully grasp Americans' fondness for the pulp from cacao beans. Savoring chocolate is normal. But, researchers said Monday, overindulging in it could be a marker for depression. | |
| | | | Latinas Especially Need To Ask For Help | Latina.com | 04/26/2010 | | ¡Ayúdame! When is the last time you asked for help? If you're like most Latinas, you probably can't even remember. And believe it or not, that one little word, "help," can unlock the secret to your mental health. | |
| | | | 'Crazy Heart' Among Prism Award Honorees | The Hollywood Reporter | 04/22/2010 | | "Crazy Heart," Fox Searchlight's tale of a booze-addled country singer, was among the movies honored Thursday by the Prism Awards. | |
| | | | Children’s Mental Health | the | 04/22/2010 | | One in five American children have a diagnosable mental health disorder and kids in military families have an even higher incidence of emotional and behavioral problems, say researchers at the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP). | |
| | | | U.S. Military Wages War On PTSD | BBC News | 04/21/2010 | | After long campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, many US soldiers are suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, prompting the US military to develop ways to help them, the BBC's Paul Adams in Washington reports. | |
| | | | Young California NAMI Members Head To Washington D.C. | NAMI Kern County | 04/19/2010 | | Six of the team members of Kern County's OutSpoken Young Minds Project (OSYM) will attend NAMI's national convention on July 3 to present their experiences and the success of their pilot project to reach young people and their families. | |
| | | | Dealing With Depression In Seniors | The Los Angeles Times | 04/17/2010 | | After my mom died, I temporarily moved back in with my 81-year-old dad. My parents had been married more than 50 years; the last five had been difficult. Mom had a host of serious problems, including dementia. Taking care of her had left my father with his own health problems. I wanted to see how he'd do on his own. | |
| | | | Us and Them | Minnesota Public Radio | 04/15/2010 | | Yes, I really have a mental illness. And I am just like you. | |
| | | | Looking At Laura's Law | The Sacramento Bee | 04/13/2010 | | California has become a killing field for people with mental illness. | |
| | | | From the Edge of Suicide to Recovery | The Daily News | 04/13/2010 | | She's a youthful, attractive 38, with dark, spiky hair and big brown eyes. She's petite and personable. She has a mental illness. | |
| | | | More Americans Taking Medications For Mental Illness | The Montreal Gazette | 04/12/2010 | | Many more Americans have been using prescription drugs to treat mental illness since 1996, in part because of expanded insurance coverage and greater familiarity with the drugs among primary care doctors, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday. | |
| | | | Researchers Refine DNA Testing for Predisposition to Bipolar Disorder | Newswise.com | 04/09/2010 | | Genetic testing may rise to a new level with the findings of Indiana University School of Medicine researchers whose “prototype” for laboratory testing for bipolar disorder appears today in the online edition of the American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics. | |
| | | | Burger King Goes 'Crazy' | ABC News | 04/06/2010 | | The economy may be recovering but advertisers and marketers are still pulling out all the stops to attract customers. Some campaigns work better than others. | |
| | | | The Seduction Of Hypomania | Psychology Today | 04/05/2010 | | For those with bipolar disorder life would be a lot easier if hypomania (mild manic symptoms) were more like a stomach ache. You'd begin to hurt or feel nauseous and the experience would signal that something is wrong. | |
| | | | NAMI Founding Member Passes | The New York Times | 04/02/2010 | | Harriet Shetler, whose experience as the mother of a son with schizophrenia led her to help start a national organization to address mental health needs, died Tuesday in Madison, Wis. She was 92. | |
| | | | Pilots On Depression Medications May Fly | Bloomberg.com | 04/02/2010 | | Pilots taking Prozac will be permitted to fly as U.S. regulators drop a decades-old ban on four antidepressants including the Eli Lilly and Co. drug. | |
| | | | Grants Help Marin Poor | The Marin Independent Journal | 04/01/2010 | | Poor Marin residents in need of dental care or specialized treatment for health problems such as mental illness and drug or alcohol abuse will be the beneficiaries of $1.25 million in grants supplied by Sutter Health. | |
| | | | Mental Health Experts Applaud Focus On Parity | The New York Times | 03/29/2010 | | Even without the new health care law, mental health advocates were getting ready to celebrate parity — a law requiring benefits for substance abuse and mental illnesses to be on par with benefits for medical illnesses. | |
| | | | Tri-City Mental Health Center Turns Around | The Inland Valley Daily Bulletin | 03/27/2010 | | Tri-City Mental Health Center approved a community services and support plan in January that will earn the agency $14.2 million. | |
| | | | Stigma Keeps Some Latinos From Depression Treatment | Health Behavior News Service | 03/26/2010 | | A new, small study of low-income, depressed Latinos finds that those who stigmatize mental illness are less likely than others are to take medication, keep scheduled appointments and control their condition. | |
| | | | Proposed State Cuts Take Fire | The Daily Journal | 03/25/2010 | | San Mateo County will lose $13 million in state funding for mental health services serving more than 2,500 residents if officials in Sacramento approve a plan currently under consideration, according to Board of Supervisors President Rich Gordon. | |
| | | | NAMI Launches Social Networking Site For Young Adults | PR Newswire | 03/23/2010 | | The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) has launched StrengthofUs.org, a new online community where young adults living with mental health concerns can provide mutual support in navigating unique challenges and opportunities during the critical transition years from ages 18 to 25. | |
| | | | House Passes Historic Healthcare Overhaul | The Los Angeles Times | 03/22/2010 | | Ending the Democrats' decades-long quest to create a healthcare safety net to match Social Security, the House of Representatives on Sunday night approved sweeping legislation to guarantee Americans access to medical care for the first time, delivering President Obama the biggest victory of his young presidency. | |
| | | | San Francisco Chooses Jail Over Treatment | The San Francisco Chronicle | 03/22/2010 | | An explosion of research shows mentally ill persons treated early often go on to full recovery, gain employment, respond to treatment and live productively. Yet in San Francisco, more mentally ill are in jail than in hospitals, despite a blunt conclusion by Deputy Public Defender Jennifer Johnson: "Treatment is more efficient and cheaper than incarceration." | |
| | | | UC Could Oversee Prison Health | The Los Angeles Times | 03/19/2010 | | The Schwarzenegger administration wants to put the University of California in charge of state prison inmates' medical needs in an overhaul of the troubled corrections healthcare system that could save $12 billion over a decade, officials say. | |
| | | | Hearts and Minds Promotes Wellness | medical news today | 03/19/2010 | | The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) has launched a new health education program to promote sound "mind and body" health practices among individuals who live with serious mental illness. | |
| | | | Nutrition May Influence Risk For Depression | Women's Mental Health | 03/18/2010 | | There has been a long held belief that diet may influence well-being. The phrase “you are what you eat” suggests that nutrition has an impact on physical as well as mental health. Until recently, however, there have been few studies that provide data to support this idea. | |
| | | | Depression In Teens | The New York Times | 03/18/2010 | | In light of the story about three apparent suicides at Cornell University, it seemed like a sadly appropriate time to post a question from Elizabeth, a reader who is worried about her teenage son. In an e-mail message she writes: | |
| | | | NAMI California Affiliate Pioneers Family To Family For Veterans | NAMI Mt. San Jacinto Valley | 03/17/2010 | | At the request of the Veterans Administration in partnership with NAMI, the Mt. San Jacinto Valley affiliate will offer a pioneering class in April designed to assist veterans, active military, their families and any other interested family members. | |
| | | | Screening, Care For Parental Depression Recommended | The LA Times | 03/15/2010 | | Not only should parents and children be screened more routinely for depression, they also need access to care, says last year's report by the National Research Council and Institute of Medicine on the effects of parental depression. | |
| | | | NAMI Helps Win Law Enforcement Training In Humboldt | The Contra Costa Times | 03/13/2010 | | For six minutes on Thursday, Northcoast Resource Center Executive Director John Shelter experienced a state of paranoia and hallucination. He heard voices in his head, saw people on TV addressing him directly and thought his food looked and smelled like poison. | |
| | | | New Help For Troubled Vets | The Press Democrat | 03/13/2010 | | Bill Simon, 60, has been able to alleviate symptoms associated with post traumatic stress disorder by using emotional freedom techniques. Simon served in Vietnam as an aircraft crew chief. | |
| | | | Reunions In Recovery | The Press Telegram | 03/13/2010 | | The father and son stand side by side and you can see the resemblance. They're both tall and burly. The dad wears a mustache, the son a beard. | |
| | | | Families Grapple With Costs Of Childhood Schizophrenia | ABC News | 03/10/2010 | | Thirty miles north of Los Angeles, in a community in the Santa Clarita Valley, Michael Schofield rushes home at 5 p.m. to meet his wife Susan. It's the time of day when Michael and Susan swap their two young children. | |
| | | | L.A. County To Close Leased Mental-Care Unit In Rosemead | The L.A. Times | 03/03/2010 | | Los Angeles County will stop housing psychiatric patients at a mental unit it leases in Rosemead, citing "numerous patient life-safety deficiencies," and instead will add beds at the Martin Luther King Jr. Medical Campus in Willowbrook. | |
| | | | NAMI Testifies At Senate Veterans Hearing | PR Newswire | 03/03/2010 | | Vietnam era combat pilot and national board member of NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) Clarence Jordan testified at a Senate hearing today calling for better outreach and coordination of mental health care by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). | |
| | | | Things Being Equal | The Washington Post | 03/02/2010 | | Denise Camp was resigned to the double standard that had long applied to her medical bills, forcing her to skimp on other expenses so she could pay for mental health treatment. | |
| | | | Link Between Memories and Vets With PTSD | PhysOrg.com | 03/02/2010 | | A specific region of the hippocampus, a brain structure that is essential to memory, is significantly smaller in veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder than in those without the condition, according to a study by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and University of California, San Francisco. | |
| | | | Revealing Your Bipolar Truth | Psychology Today | 02/28/2010 | | I lead a weekly support group for bipolar students through Counseling and Psychological Services at the University of Virginia. Each week, discussion varies considerably usually reflecting the different struggles that students may have encountered during the preceding week. | |
| | | | Four Oakland Schools To Provide Mental Health Services | The Mercury News | 02/25/2010 | | At four East Oakland schools, children and teenagers who endure family instability, violence and the constant threat of violence will have the chance to release their stress in a healthy way, with the help of a therapist. | |
| | | | LA's Response To Its Gang Epidemic | Huffington Post | 02/24/2010 | | After six years of crime declines, Los Angeles has never been safer. Right? If you live outside of LA's gang hot spots, the answer is yes. If you're a kid living in a gang hot zone, the answer is, LA is less dangerous than it used to be, but you still can't go to the gang controlled park in your neighborhood, and you still face being shot dead for answering the question "Where are you from?" the wrong way. | |
| | | | Mental Health Cause Championed In Santa Barbara | The Independent | 02/24/2010 | | In an effort to improve services provided to Santa Barbara County’s mentally ill and homeless residents, the Mental Health Commission (MHC) – an oversight body for the county’s Department of Alcohol, Drug, and Mental Health Services (ADMHS) – met with the Consumer Advocacy Coalition (CAC), an organization dedicated to empowering those with a mental illness, on February 19. | |
| | | | SAMHSA and Ad Council To Launch Mental Health Campaign For The African American Community | PR Newswire | 02/23/2010 | | The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), working in collaboration with the Ad Council and the Stay Strong Foundation, announced today the launch of a national public service advertising (PSA) campaign designed to raise awareness of mental health problems among young adults in the African American community. | |
| | | | Why It's Better To Have A Mind Than A Brain | The San Francisco Chronicle | 02/22/2010 | | I've decided once more to write about the mind. In particular, the point must be made that we are not our brains. We are our minds, a rich, alive, constantly changing mystery. The brain carries out what the mind wants. To mistake the brain, a lump of proteins, sugar, and water, for a mind is a drastic mistake. | |
| | | | Fighting The War At Home | New America Media | 02/21/2010 | | A soldier returns safely after surviving sniper fire and roadside bombs in Iraq and Afghanistan. But the hypervigilance and suppressed emotions that kept him alive have taken a heavy toll. Jeremy P. wrote this for the Veterans Workshop, a New America Media writing project for military veterans. | |
| | | | Shame Raises Stigma Against People With A Mental Illness | My News | 02/20/2010 | | I remember how I sat at the kitchen table in December 1993 with knots in my stomach, my mother cooking dinner for my ninth birthday party. "Do you think dad is going to come out of his room during my party?" I nervously asked my mother as she pulled coconut barfi, a traditional Indian sweet, out from the fridge. | |
| | | | Prescriptions For Psychiatric Trouble | The Wall Street Journal | 02/19/2010 | | Last week, the American Psychiatric Association unveiled the much-awaited blueprint for the next edition of its official handbook of diagnoses, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fifth edition, or DSM V. Outlets from the New York Times to the Hindustan Times heralded its arrival. ABC News announced, "Big changes for DSM, the psychiatrists' bible." | |
| | | | Chronic Health Conditions Increasing In Children | The Los Angeles Times | 02/17/2010 | | More than a quarter of all U.S. children have a chronic health condition, new research suggests, a significant increase from the rate seen in earlier decades and a statistic that looms large for the nation's efforts to subdue rising healthcare costs. | |
| | | | Stepping Up Treatment In Sacramento | The Sacramento Bee | 02/16/2010 | | Just a few hours after contemplating suicide, Lindsey Johnson found herself in the bright lights of a hospital mental ward, where belts and shoelaces were forbidden and doors were locked tight. | |
| | | | How Psychiatrists Redefine Disordered | Time | 02/13/2010 | | The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders important because doctors, insurers and researchers all over the world use it as a reference, a dictionary of everything humanity considers to be mentally unbalanced. | |
| | | | Shifts Ahead For Mental Diagnoses | The Wall Street Journal | 02/10/2010 | | Mental-health experts wrestling with how to fit temper tantrums, hoarding and even Internet addiction into the current understanding of mental illness are proposing changes to the field's primary reference for diagnoses for the first time in 16 years. | |
| | | | SOAR Aims To Help Clients Avoid Hospitalization | Marketwire | 02/09/2010 | | Telecare Corporation has opened its first Sacramento County-based program, Sacramento Outreach Adult Recovery to serve the needs of individuals with persistent, serious mental illness who have the ability to live more independently and avoid long-term hospitalization. | |
| | | | A Harder Road To Recovery | The Contra Costa Times | 02/07/2010 | | As the unemployment rate goes up, finding jobs for disabled people is getting harder. | |
| | | | Hopeful Signs Of Increased Emphasis On Mental Health Issues | Psychiatric Times | 02/07/2010 | | A major speech on mental health from Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and the ascension of a new administrator at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) have sparked hopes that the Obama administration is putting increased emphasis on mental health issues. | |
| | | | Down To The Bare Bones | The Daily Democrat | 02/05/2010 | | In Yolo County, compassion has resulted in debt, as the Mental Health Department for years has gone above and beyond state mandate to care for its citizens. | |
| | | | Roadblocks, Education, and Recovery | The News Journal | 02/04/2010 | | Mental Illness is a medical condition that disrupts a person's thinking, feeling, mood and ability to relate to others. It also diminishes your capacity to cope with the ordinary demands of life. | |
| | | | Electroboy On Campus | PR Web | 02/03/2010 | | It has never been more important than now to empower college students with the tools they need to manage their mental health care needs. | |
| | | | Mr. Ayers, Recording Artist | The Los Angeles Times | 02/02/2010 | | I was beginning to think we'd never get around to making the CD that Nathaniel Anthony Ayers has been talking about for years. | |
| | | | Fish Oil Can Head Off First Psychotic Episodes | The Los Angeles Times | 02/01/2010 | | In the lives of young people at high risk for developing serious mental illness, heading off that first psychotic episode can mean a world of difference. | |
| | | | Workers Fear Stigma Of Seeking Mental Health Care | HealthDay News | 01/30/2010 | | Fears about losing status at work and about confidentiality are among the main reasons that many American workers are more hesitant to seek treatment for mental health issues than for physical health problems, according to a national survey released this week by the American Psychiatric Association. | |
| | | | Children Of Bipolar Parents At Risk | Parent Dish | 01/29/2010 | | The Parents' Curse: "I hope you have children just like you!" There may be a scientific basis for that. If your child's temper tantrums and assorted fits are frazzling your last nerve, it could be because he or she is a sort of mini-you. | |
| | | | New Rules Promise Better Mental Health Coverage | The New York Times | 01/29/2010 | | The Obama administration issued new rules on Friday that promise to improve insurance coverage of mental health care for more than 140 million people insured through their jobs. | |
| | | | Trading Barbs On California Single-Payer Plan | The Ventura County Star | 01/28/2010 | | Saying that states may need to take the lead on healthcare reform if the effort in Congress stalls, members of the California Senate today approved a measure to establish a single-payer insurance system that would function much like Medicare to cover all Californians. | |
| | | | Stigma and The Service | Stars and Stripes | 01/25/2010 | | The Army staff sergeant knew something was seriously wrong when he still couldn’t sleep weeks after returning from Afghanistan. But he never considered going to Army psychiatrists. | |
| | | | Lumping Ethnic Groups In Mental Health Research Leaves Many Untreated | New America Media | 01/24/2010 | | The conventional practice of lumping ethnic groups together as Latinos, African Americans or Asian/Pacific Islanders makes it nearly impossible for researchers to determine key factors for improving the effectiveness of care among racial or ethnic subgroups, according to a new study of depression care in the United States. | |
| | | | Stay Sought For Fresco County Housing | The Fresno Bee | 01/23/2010 | | Two low-income apartment complexes for the mentally ill that are set to close may remain open -- at least for the next four months -- under a plan that Fresno County supervisors will be asked to approve Tuesday. | |
| | | | Diagnosing Disorders Using Brain Imaging | CNET | 01/21/2010 | | Post-traumatic stress, which is estimated to afflict one in five veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars alone, is typically diagnosed through behavioral screenings and is often considered a "soft" disorder with no known biomarkers. | |
| | | | NAMI Affiliate Director Honored | San Diego Magazine | 01/20/2010 | | Shannon Jaccard, Executive Director for NAMI San Diego, was selected to join the list of 50 San Diego residents expected to make significant contributions to the community in 2010. | |
| | | | Dealing With The Workplace | Psychology Today | 01/18/2010 | | If you’re having trouble doing your job or desperately need an accommodation, you need to tell somebody something before you do serious damage to your career. However, be very careful about disclosing your diagnosis. | |
| | | | A Systemic Look At Schizophrenia | Chemical & Engineering News | 01/18/2010 | | Because schizophrenia is a psychiatric disorder, its physical manifestations must all be in the brain, right? Maybe not. Proteomic studies using cells from other parts of the body are showing that there might be a systemic aspect of the disorder. The ability to use nonbrain cells to study schizophrenia could make it easier to find biomarkers of the disease and to develop diagnostic tools. | |
| | | | Migraine and Depression May Share Genetic Component | Science Daily | 01/18/2010 | | New research shows that migraine and depression may share a strong genetic component. The research is published in the January 13, 2010, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. | |
| | | | On the Streets of Colusa County | The Colusa Sun Herald | 01/15/2010 | | Sometimes it just takes an outstretched hand and a brave first step to begin a life-changing journey. | |
| | | | Therese Borchard On Overcoming Depression | Time Magazine | 01/15/2010 | | Therese Borchard writes about depression every day on her award-winning blog at Beliefnet.com, featured weekly on The Huffington Post, and was voted by PsychCentral.com as one of the top 10 depression blogs. But it took a special leap of faith to share the stories of her breakdowns, hospitalizations and ongoing struggle with depression | |
| | | | MHSA Implementations Boost Alameda County Services | Oakland North | 01/13/2010 | | While the Board of Supervisors were preparing for cutbacks, their most spirited debate focused on a department that actually has more money this year—the Health Care Services Agency. | |
| | | | Congress and Extended Mental Health Coverage | Psychiatric Times | 01/13/2010 | | Both bills appear to extend mental health parity to individual and group policies sold within new health insurance Exchanges. They would also expand Medicaid, begin funding medical home demonstrations, and ban insurance companies from denying policies based on an applicant’s preexisting condition. | |
| | | | Debate Over Best Mental Health Therapy | the Los Angeles Times | 01/11/2010 | | If your doctor advised a treatment that involved leeches and bloodletting, you might take a second glance at that diploma on the wall. For the same reason, you should think twice about whom you see as a therapist, says a team of psychological researchers. | |
| | | | How Catholics Struggle With Mental Illness | U.S. Catholic | 01/10/2010 | | Not long after Rich Salazar moved to DeKalb, Illinois from California, he found himself knocking at the door of St. Mary's Church. The then-college student had recently been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and was in crisis mode. | |
| | | | Governor Offers Budget Plan With Deep Cuts | the Sacramento Bee | 01/09/2010 | | One thing is clear in Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's final January budget proposal: California's finances are about as desperate as desperate gets. | |
| | | | How Cuts Would Affect NAMI Consumers and Families | NAMI California | 01/09/2010 | | If the budget proposals made by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger are realized, California's residents who suffer from mental illnesses and their families may be gravely affected. | |
| | | | Millions Of Californians Have Lost Health Care | The San Francisco Chronicle | 01/08/2010 | | About 3 million poor Californians lost health benefits or access to health care, and thousands more lost their jobs due to state budget cuts imposed six months ago, according to a report released Thursday. | |
| | | | SAMHSA Grant Proposals Due Mid-February | Media Newswire | 01/07/2010 | | The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration(SAMHSA)is accepting applications for fiscal year 2010 for up to $8.9 million. | |
| | | | Safety Nets In Peril? | The Sacramento Bee | 01/06/2010 | | Health care advocates estimate that California's budget cuts have forced more than 450,000 Californians, including severely disabled people, to either pay for or go without dental care since July. | |
| | | | Schwarzenegger Calls For Extensive Changes | The Los Angeles Times | 01/06/2010 | | Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger this morning presented lawmakers with an ambitious agenda for his final year in office, calling for broad changes to the state's budget, pension and tax systems, a constitutional requirement to spend more on higher education than prisons and a greater share of federal funding for California. | |
| | | | State Of The State Message | The Sacramento Bee | 01/06/2010 | | Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Wednesday in his final State of the State address that he will protect schools in his upcoming budget and proposed a constitutional guarantee that California will never spend more money on prisons than on higher education. | |
| | | | Working Out Healthcare Reform | Yahoo.com | 01/05/2010 | | Congressional Democrats and President Barack Obama began work in earnest Tuesday on difficult issues still standing in the way of their national health care overhaul after months of tortuous debate. Topping the list: How to help Americans pay for insurance premiums. | |
| | | | The Clinical Trial That Keeps On Giving | Psychiatry Online | 01/04/2010 | | The large, real-world trial has shown that high-quality depression treatment can be delivered in primary care clinics using a measurement-based treatment protocol. | |
| | | | Oakland A's Pitcher Hurls A Victory For Recovery | The San Francisco Chronicle | 01/02/2010 | | Justin Duchscherer just conducted a very candid conference call with local reporters in which he discussed his diagnosis of clinical depression last summer. | |
| | | | Hushing The Intruders In Her Brain | The LA Times | 12/29/2009 | | It was a little more than a year ago that January Schofield, at age 6, began to drift from reality. Suicidal, violent and plagued by hallucinations of rats and cats who conversed and played with her, she began the first of seven psychiatric hospitalizations. | |
| | | | Shooting Emphasizes Need For Improved Care | The Modesto Bee | 12/28/2009 | | Earlier this month, I got a dreaded phone call from a dear friend. She told me that her daughter, Beth, had been shot dead while in a psychotic episode. She was threatening police in a school yard. | |
| | | | Mental Health Should Be High On List Of Essentials | The Sacramento Bee | 12/27/2009 | | Our community should understand that because of budget cuts imposed by our elected county officials, our health care providers – and every member of this community – are at great risk. | |
| | | | An MHSA Success Story | The Oakland Tribune | 12/27/2009 | | For years, Deaundre Rice waged war with himself — battling alcohol and drug problems as well as mental illness — until bottoming out four years ago. | |
| | | | Healing Power In The Hands Of Patients | The Napa Valley Register | 12/26/2009 | | Joel Carrillo of Napa uses words like “terrifying” when describing the symptoms of depression. But along with others, including many facing the same demons, he’s finding support at a local program for adults battling mental illness. | |
| | | | Sick, Without A Safety Net | LA Times | 12/23/2009 | | On the wall across from Tucker Johnson's easy chair is a three-paneled drawing he believes was an early clue to his son's mental illness, an exacting sketch of the Pillsbury Doughboy, first intact, then split in two, then unrecognizable. | |
| | | | Marin County Reducing Services | The Mercury News | 12/20/2009 | | Marin County's mental health division is cutting back services to Medi-Cal recipients after the state cut in half the funds it provided. | |
| | | | Healthcare Reform Closes In On Victory | Yahoo | 12/19/2009 | | Democratic leaders secured the support of Sen. Ben Nelson to provide the 60th and deciding vote for sweeping health care legislation in the Senate, capping a year of struggle and a final burst of deadline bargaining on President Barack Obama's top domestic priority. | |
| | | | Trouble Growing In Fresno | The Fresno Bee | 12/19/2009 | | Six months ago, Fresno County closed its only psychiatric-crisis center to save money, forcing police to take potentially dangerous people to hospital emergency rooms instead. | |
| | | | NAMI Applauds New Report On Caregiving | PR Web | 12/17/2009 | | The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) praises a new report, Caregiving in the U.S. 2009, which offers a revealing portrait of the nearly one-in-three American adults who serve as a family caregiver. | |
| | | | The San Francisco Foundation Awards $30,000 Grant To Conard House | News-Medical Net | 12/14/2009 | | Conard House, a pioneering nonprofit organization developing resources to help people self-manage mental illness since 1960, today announced the award of a $30,000, one-year grant from The San Francisco Foundation to continue implementation of a five-year strategic mental health education initiative. | |
| | | | PTSD Affects Women Soldiers, Too | Google | 12/14/2009 | | Nobody wants to buy them a beer. Even near military bases, female veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan aren't often offered a drink on the house as a welcome home. | |
| | | | Troubling News For The Young | The LA Times | 12/13/2009 | | If your child broke an arm or had a nasty bout of pneumonia, you’d probably visit the doctor. But a new study from researchers at the National Institute of Mental Health finds that only 55% of kids with a mental disorder sought professional treatment. | |
| | | | Use Of Deadly Force | The Sacramento Bee | 12/13/2009 | | Before he called the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department to his 50th Avenue apartment for a tenant dispute that ended with his death Tuesday, Giat Van Truong had been arrested on a mental-health hold several times in his life, according to authorities. | |
| | | | Sensory Studies Show Promise | The LA Times | 12/09/2009 | | Brain Visual and auditory deficits are apparent in teenagers developing schizophrenia, and identifying and treating these deficits might restore sensory function and limit the impact of the disease, researchers reported. | |
| | | | Push For Deal On Public Health Plan | The New York Times | 12/07/2009 | | President Obama exhorted Senate Democrats on Sunday to put aside their differences and seize their moment in history by passing landmark health legislation. But senators said he did not mention sticky issues like abortion or a new government-run insurance plan. | |
| | | | Unkind Cuts At Home | The Mercury News | 12/05/2009 | | Among the patchwork of agencies providing mental health services to schoolchildren, the stitching is coming unraveled. | |
| | | | Mental Health Social Network Launched | Examiner.com | 12/03/2009 | | Mental Health Social has launched a new social network. The site is designed to allow people with mental health conditions to connect in a comfortable and private online environment. | |
| | | | Remember Us For The Holidays | The Bakersfield Californian | 11/28/2009 | | Loneliness is frequently a problem for the mentally ill, but it's especially the case during the holidays. There is a great deal of stigma and rejection for them all year long, but at Christmas things can be especially difficult. Many have no family or friends to spend time with, and little money to buy a Christmas tree or food to eat. Suicides and hospitalizations go up. | |
| | | | Mental Illness Stigma In The Family | The Tucson Citizen | 11/28/2009 | | Discrimination against people with mental illness is all too prevalent, but what does someone do when someone in your family is being stigmatized by their own family members? | |
| | | | A Comparison Of Health Care Reform Bills | Mental Health America | 11/23/2009 | | Below is a summary of some of the major topics of interest addressed in the health care reform bill passed by the House of Representatives and in Senate leadership bill combining two committee-approved versions. | |
| | | | Police Training Pays Off | The Mercury News | 11/21/2009 | | One out of every four San Jose police officers is specially trained to respond to emergency calls that involve a mentally ill or suicidal person. | |
| | | | Military Experiment Seeks To Predict PTSD | Time | 11/20/2009 | | Two days before shipping off to war, Marine Pfc. Jesse Sheets sat inside a trailer in the Mojave Desert, his gaze fixed on a computer that flashed a rhythmic pulse of contrasting images. | |
| | | | Palo Alto High Holds Encouraging Mental Health Forum | Paly.net | 11/20/2009 | | The Palo Alto Parent Teacher Student Association-sponsored mental health and wellness panel held at the Haymarket Theater on Thursday, Nov. 18 at 7 p.m. sent a clear message that help is available to students and parents in need of guidance. | |
| | | | Seeking Early Interventions | Boston.com | 11/16/2009 | | There may be a way of predicting which teenagers at high risk for full-blown schizophrenia will go on to develop the disease. | |
| | | | Childhood Stress Can Trigger Adult Depression | The LA Times | 11/14/2009 | | Growing up in a stressful environment isn't conducive to becoming a well-adjusted adult. Studies have shown that people who faced constant stress during childhood have an increased risk of being depressed later. | |
| | | | Gene Linked To Mood Disorders | Laboratory Equipment | 11/13/2009 | | A gene in the brain that was not previously linked to mood disorders could have a role in biopolar, depression, and schizophrenic conditions. Pharmacy scientists at the Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) identified antidepressant and anti-anxiety behaviors in tests of mice lacking the gene. | |
| | | | Caring For The Caregivers | NPR | 11/12/2009 | | As the nation held its breath, waiting for news about health care, violent acts were committed against a caregiver to the mentally ill and by a caregiver himself. | |
| | | | Illness and Intimacy | The New York Times | 11/12/2009 | | Few people have written about their experience of manic-depressive illness from the inside as acutely as Kay Redfield Jamison did in her 1995 memoir, “An Unquiet Mind.” | |
| | | | Coming Home | The Town Crier | 11/11/2009 | | The 2000 U.S. Census reported that 2,854 military veterans resided in Los Altos – slightly more than 13 percent of the city’s older-than-18 population. Whether serving stateside or abroad in times of peace or war, Los Altos residents have a long history of defending and protecting their country and its freedoms. | |
| | | | Recovery In Stanislaus | The Turlock Journal | 11/03/2009 | | About 15 years ago, schizophrenia and bi-polar disorder caused Robert Hall to run away from home, as if he were a teenager again, and no one understood why, not even himself. | |
| | | | Is This Any Way To Treat Our Heroes? | The Huffington Post | 11/02/2009 | | A close family friend's son recently returned from Afghanistan where he had been working as a government contractor for the US war there. He is a Veteran Marine who joined in 2002 right after terrorists flew airplanes into the World Trade Center buildings on 9/11/01. He unselfishly wanted to serve his country and defend us from these attacks. | |
| | | | Combating The Stigma Of Psychological Injuries | The New York Times | 11/02/2009 | | In his most extensive comments on mental health challenges facing American forces fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said Monday that many military personnel fear a stigma if they seek help for psychological injuries. | |
| | | | NAMI California Collaborates With State Prison System | NAMI California | 11/01/2009 | | After two years of advocacy and with the strong support of numerous prison clinicians, NAMI California has obtained support from the Division of Correctional Health Care Services to place an Inmate Mental Health Information Form in all California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) Reception Centers. | |
| | | | What Are Our Priorities? | The Daily News | 11/01/2009 | | When author Pete Earley titled his last book "Crazy," it was not in reference to people with mental illness, but rather to a flawed mental health system intended to help them. | |
| | | | NAMI Goes To Work In Lake County | The Record-Bee | 11/01/2009 | | A core group of volunteers has come together to form the Lake County chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). Board members are in place and additional volunteers are being sought. | |
| | | | Antipsychotics May Cause Rapid Weight Gain In Youth | Reuters | 10/27/2009 | | Up to a third of children and adolescents who took common antipsychotic drugs for the first time became overweight or obese in as little as 11 weeks, raising their risk for diabetes and heart disease, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday. | |
| | | | Survey Shows High Rate Of Depression Among U.S. Unemployed | Voice of America | 10/27/2009 | | The steep downturn in the U.S. economy and the accompanying rise in unemployment have caused financial hardship for millions of Americans. The recession is also having a negative impact on Americans' mental health. | |
| | | | A Push For Colleges To Prioritize Mental Health | NPR | 10/26/2009 | | Arcadio Morales, one of six residence deans at Stanford University, has lived in an apartment in the campus dorms for 15 years. But the mix of problems he's called to weigh in on has become more serious in recent years. | |
| | | | NAMI Calls For Increase In NIH Funding | NAMI | 10/26/2009 | | NAMI is joining advocates from across the nation in asking President Obama to make medical research for improving health care a priority and support robust funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). | |
| | | | Plea For Help At The Top | The Kansas City Star | 10/23/2009 | | In the Senate, Barack Obama fought for better mental health care for troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. As president, some of his former colleagues now want him to again make sure troops are getting the benefits they deserve. | |
| | | | Light At Night Linked To Depression | Los Angeles Times | 10/23/2009 | | Lots of research suggests that our bodies are adapted to sleep during darkness and become active during daylight. Disruptions in circadian rhythms may increase the risk of metabolic diseases and some types of cancer. Now, a study in mice has found, being exposed to light at night for prolonged periods of time may contribute to depression. | |
| | | | Teens In The Spotlight Following Tragedies | The Daily News | 10/21/2009 | | Planned long before the death of another Gunn High School student on Monday, a community forum on teen mental health Wednesday night drew a large crowd of community members seeking answers about how to prevent a "suicide cluster" from continuing to expand in Palo Alto. | |
| | | | The Stigma Of Silence and Mental Illness | The Huffington Post | 10/21/2009 | | Mental illness and I are no strangers. From Alex Forrest in Fatal Attraction to Blanche Dubois in A Streetcar Named Desire to Norma Desmond in Andrew Lloyd Weber's Sunset Boulevard, I've had the challenge -- and the privilege -- of playing characters who have deep psychological wounds. | |
| | | | Colleges See Rise In Mental Health Issues | NPR | 10/19/2009 | | They may not tell their roommates or even close friends, but on college campuses all across the United States, more students than ever before are seeking psychiatric help, according to recent national surveys of campus therapists. | |
| | | | Stanford Mental Health Issues Go Public | The Stanford Review | 10/19/2009 | | National Public Radio, the esteemed bastion of obscure trivia, even-keeled journalism, and late night classical music, ran a story both on its website the airwaves yesterday about the rise of reported mental health-related diagnoses on college campuses across the United States. On most fronts, this news would not come as a particular surprise to anybody. | |
| | | | After The Game Ends | The Wausau Daily Herald | 10/18/2009 | | After losing his son to suicide in 2000, former NFL quarterback Eric Hipple spiraled into black depression. | |
| | | | APA Responds On Health Care Reform Bill | Psychiatry Online | 10/16/2009 | | Amendments to strengthen the mental-health-related components of the Baucus health reform bill include an effort to expand the insurance-parity mandate beyond federal legislation enacted in 2008. | |
| | | | Court Nixes Challenge To MHSA | Courthouse News | 10/16/2009 | | California's tax on millionaires' income to expand the state's mental-health services does not violate the Constitution, a California appeals court ruled. | |
| | | | Stop The Revolving Door | Ventura County Reporter | 10/15/2009 | | NAMI Ventura County, a local affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, sponsored a public screening last Friday of the documentary A Revolving Door about a 33-year-old man from Ventura named Tommy Lennon who is on the path of a seemingly endless cycle of homelessness, drug addiction, mental institutions and jails. | |
| | | | Entertainment and Recovery | Reuters | 10/15/2009 | | Writers and producers were honored by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) for increasing awareness of mental health issues and the power of recovery at the 2009 Voice Awards. | |
| | | | Art As Therapy | The Independent | 10/12/2009 | | More than 70 artists spread their artwork across De la Guerra Plaza last Saturday for Mental Health Arts Festival, using their paintings, sculpture, knitting, jewelry, and performance arts to combat the stigma that often surrounds mental illness. | |
| | | | Napa and Marin Face Critical Changes In Care | The North Bay Business Journal | 10/12/2009 | | Faced with budgets “cleaned to the bone,” North Bay county mental health care directors said this year will mark a distinctive transformation of the system. | |
| | | | Ventura County Diversion Working | The Ventura County Star | 10/11/2009 | | The defendants stand shackled behind bars or out on bail in Courtroom 37. They’re waiting to find out if a judge will allow them into a supervised treatment program for mentally ill offenders. | |
| | | | Stigma Remains Unacceptable | Behavioral Health Care | 10/09/2009 | | With uncanny timing, health policy experts at the 25th Annual Rosalynn Carter Symposium on Mental Health Policy wrapped up productive debate on solutions to restructure the broken behavioral health system just as the House of Representatives prepared to vote on an historic floor vote on its healthcare reform bill. | |
| | | | Breaking Silence | Google News | 10/09/2009 | | The topic of suicide makes many people squirm. It's something we've been told we're not supposed to talk about. If you speak it, someone might do it. | |
| | | | Is Bipolar Cool? | Knowledge Is Necessity | 10/09/2009 | | Something major has happened in the ten years since I've been diagnosed with bipolar. Back then, it was an illness you concealed. It was a shame you hid. Friends, family, and colleagues had a way of only seeing the diagnosis, and what they chose to see was not good. | |
| | | | APA and Health Care Reform | Psychiatric Times | 10/08/2009 | | As the nation’s uninsured population climbs to 46.3 million and Congress grapples with health care reform, the American Psychiatric Association has intensified its efforts to advocate for a public health insurance option, insurance market reforms, changes in Medicare’s physician payment system, and preservation of parity for mental health. | |
| | | | PTSD in the Military | Army Times | 10/07/2009 | | Army Col. Rich O'Connor does not mince words when he talks about the amount of mental health training he had before he took a squadron in the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment to war in Iraq's Diyalah province in 2006. | |
| | | | Troubled Minds Can Mean Wider Waistlines | HealthDay News | 10/07/2009 | | Common mental health disorders, such as anxiety and depression, may increase a person's risk of obesity, and people with repeated episodes of these disorders are particularly at risk, British researchers say. | |
| | | | Young Adults May Outgrow Bipolar Disorder | Science Blog | 10/02/2009 | | University of Missouri researchers have found evidence that nearly half of those diagnosed between the ages of 18 and 25 may outgrow the disorder by the time they reach 30. | |
| | | | Breaking The Silence In The Military | Army News Service | 10/01/2009 | | It will take Soldiers telling about their successful treatment of post traumatic stress disorder to begin breaking down the stigma that prevents other troops from seeking care, said Brig. Gen. Colleen McGuire. | |
| | | | Fighting Cutbacks | The LA Times | 10/01/2009 | | Advocates for more than 130,000 elderly and disabled recipients of in-home supportive services this morning filed suit in federal court in San Francisco to block more than $53 million in state budget cuts that, as of today, would eliminate or drastically reduce services provided to them. | |
| | | | Jazz and Recovery | The Record | 10/01/2009 | | Joyce Cooling promises she'll still be entertaining. | |
| | | | Looking For Options | The Mercury News | 09/30/2009 | | Some of San Mateo County's severely mentally ill inmates may be treated at the county's public hospital next year instead of at a jail in San Jose where Santa Clara County charges $1 million a year for two inpatient beds. | |
| | | | Resorting To Hope | Lake County News | 09/30/2009 | | While the current economy is providing challenges for some property owners, it's also creating opportunities for others, including the county of Lake. | |
| | | | Off The Stage, It's No Act | The Baltimore Sun | 09/27/2009 | | Schizophrenia is "the worst pariah, one of the last great taboos," says the character Robert Smith in the British play "Blue/Orange." "People don't understand it. ... It scares them. It depresses them. It is not treated with some glamorous and intriguing wonder drug like Prozac or Viagra. It isn't newsworthy. Organized crime gets better press." | |
| | | | "I Thought I Was Bulletproof" | CNN | 09/25/2009 | | Most people, if they know of Mark Whitacre at all, remember him as a whistleblower. Now his life is dramatized in "The Informant." | |
| | | | Elyn Saks Wins MacArthur Grant | The Los Angeles Times | 09/22/2009 | | A USC law professor whose own battle with schizophrenia has informed her advocacy for those suffering from mental illness are among the 24 winners of this year's "genius" grants from the MacArthur Foundation. | |
| | | | A Big Day For Mental Health | The Napa Valley Register | 09/21/2009 | | The 15th Annual Staglin Family Music Festival for Mental Health raised $2.1 million at its Sept. 12 event to help support pioneering mental health research. | |
| | | | Red Sox Team Up To Help War Veterans | MLB.com | 09/17/2009 | | In a major effort to help veterans of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Boston Red Sox unveiled a multifaceted initiative in tandem with Massachusetts General Hospital. | |
| | | | Suicide and Depression Among Elderly On The Rise | eMax Health | 09/17/2009 | | Suicide and depression are serious problems among the elderly, and there is some concern that increasing worries about Medicare and Medicaid cuts, Social Security reductions, a poor economy, loss of retirement funds, and medical issues will contribute to a rise in the numbers of both areas. | |
| | | | Dominican Hospital To Fold Psychiatric Unit | The Mercury News | 09/12/2009 | | In what's certain to be a big change in how public services are provided to the mentally ill in the county, Dominican Hospital is looking to shutter its 26-year-old psychiatric unit and county health administrators are preparing to fill the gap -- including plans to build their own $8 million center. | |
| | | | Comorbidity Study An Eye-Opener | The LA Times | 09/10/2009 | | Anxiety, depression, and alcohol and drug dependency cases might be more than twice as high as researchers have come to believe, a study published today in the journal Psychological Science finds, with 41% of young adults experiencing major depression, half suffering an anxiety disorder and nearly one in three exhibiting alcohol dependence by the age of 32. | |
| | | | Immigrant Finds Path Out Of Maze Of Detention | The New York Times | 09/10/2009 | | Holding tight to her sister’s hand in the bustling streets of New York’s Chinatown last week, Xiu Ping Jiang looked a little dazed, like someone who has stepped from a dark, windowless place into a sunny afternoon. | |
| | | | Bipolar Adults At Increased Risk For Cardiovascular Disease | Sunnybrook | 09/10/2009 | | Research team found that adults with bipolar I disorder had a 4.95 times higher prevalence of cardiovascular disease than those without the disorder. The bipolar I disorder patients were also more likely to have hypertension than those without the disorder. | |
| | | | Stomp The Stigma | Army News | 09/09/2009 | | The visit wasn't the typical, run of the mill, morale visit from actors and actresses. This time, the actors and actresses had an important message to bring. | |
| | | | Brain Defect Implicated In Early Schizophrenia | EurekAlert | 09/07/2009 | | In the first functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study of its kind, neurologists and psychiatrists at Columbia University have identified an area of the brain involved in the earliest stages of schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders. | |
| | | | Coalition To Address Teen Mental Illness | Palo Alto Online | 09/04/2009 | | A roomful of self-described Type-A personalities met at Palo Alto City Hall on Sept. 3 to develop a comprehensive program to address teen mental illness. | |
| | | | The Doctor Is IN | The American Scholar | 09/02/2009 | | In the basement of Aaron Beck’s house, nine miles northwest of downtown Philadelphia, in a dimly lit, dusty, concrete-walled room dedicated to his archives, there sits a pink plastic box containing patient notes from a 40-year-old case of psychotherapy. | |
| | | | Depressed Teens Face Adult Risk | The BBC | 09/01/2009 | | Teenagers who have minor depression are at a higher risk of mental health problems later in life, a study saysPsychiatrists at Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute spoke to 750 people. | |
| | | | Virtual World and Real Therapy | Next Gov | 09/01/2009 | | Combat veterans rarely talk about their most searing hidden emotions and thoughts caused by their experiences in battle, a reticence that can lead to post-traumatic stress disorder. | |
| | | | Where Will We Go Now? | Reuters | 08/26/2009 | | Senator Edward Kennedy called providing health insurance for all Americans "the cause of my life." His death deprives the issue of its chief champion just as the political battle reaches a fever pitch. | |
| | | | Mental Health Consumers Lose Vital Advocate | The Huffington Post | 08/26/2009 | | Ted Kennedy leaves a remarkable legacy of advocacy. From his earliest days in the United States Senate, he showed a sensitivity toward the plight of Americans including the millions suffering from a major mental illness. | |
| | | | Remembering Longtime NAMI Friend Pat Williams | The Daily Democrat | 08/25/2009 | | Her children fought depression, with one ultimately committing suicide. Yet, where most parents might bemoan their loss, Patricia "Pat" Williams decided to set about creating a support structure for those with mental and physical illnesses that Yolo County residents now take for granted. | |
| | | | Still Waiting In Ventura | The Ventura County Star | 08/24/2009 | | Almost five years after Ventura County officials lined up the money to open a residential center for people facing mental health crises, they still can’t find a site. | |
| | | | The Trauma Of Mental Illness | The Los Angeles Times | 08/24/2009 | | A week ago Sunday, my husband and I spent the day knocking on doors and apologizing to our neighbors. | |
| | | | For Veterans, A Gift From The Sea | The Los Angeles Times | 08/23/2009 | | If you had seen Tatiana Reyes in the water at Zuma Beach last week, gliding smoothly toward the shore, you couldn't have guessed she was nearly killed in a crippling explosion while serving in Iraq. She looked like she could have been one of the surfing instructors. | |
| | | | Fresno County Slashes Critical Programs | The Fresno Bee | 08/22/2009 | | Fresno County will end a mental-health program for children and delay plans for a psychiatric unit for adults as part of an expected series of cuts in response to the state budget, officials say. | |
| | | | APA Disputes Critics Of DSM-V Process | The American Psychiatric Association | 08/21/2009 | | Thirty years after the introduction of DSM-III, important revisions are being contemplated for DSM-V, including the addition of dimensional ratings. But clinicians will still recognize the criteria-based categorical system in place since 1980. | |
| | | | Family Struggles | The Whittier Daily News | 08/21/2009 | | For eight days, Ricardo Sanchez-Carrillo's family lived with worry and anxiety when the schizophrenic went missing Aug. 8 as he rode a bicycle to a niece's house. | |
| | | | Mental Illness Isn't A Punch Line | USA TODAY | 08/20/2009 | | Psycho Donuts, a California-based bakery, features a padded cell, walls decorated with goofy faces and a neon "Bates Motel" sign flashing near the front window. | |
| | | | Psycho Donuts Responds To Stigma Concerns | The Mercury News | 08/20/2009 | | Sooner-than-later changes to Psycho Donuts could be the beginning of the end of a months-long controversy between the shop and the mental health community. | |
| | | | VA Suit Revisited | The San Francisco Chronicle | 08/13/2009 | | Military veterans' advocates took their complaints of a dysfunctional mental health system to a federal appeals court Wednesday and were urged by the chief judge to negotiate improvements with the government. | |
| | | | Ventura Officials Balk At Mental Health Court Plan | The Ventura County Star | 08/10/2009 | | County officials are balking, at least for now, at a Grand Jury recommendation that a special court for mentally ill offenders be created to divert more people from jail into treatment instead. | |
| | | | Combination Treatment For Psychotic Depression Holds Promise | NIMH News | 08/07/2009 | | A combination of an atypical antipsychotic medication and an antidepressant known as a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) may be more effective in treating psychotic depression than an atypical antipsychotic alone, according to results from an NIMH-funded clinical study. | |
| | | | Building A Roadmap To Schizophrenia | The American Psychiatric Association | 08/07/2009 | | In a massive gene hunt, three groups of international schizophrenia researchers have zeroed in on several mutations that harbor some of the secrets of schizophrenia. The resulting three papers, published online simultaneously ahead of print in Nature on July 1, confirmed some past research and revealed some surprising new insights. | |
| | | | U.S. Spending On Mental Health Care Soaring | HealthDay News | 08/05/2009 | | U.S. spending on mental illness is soaring at a faster pace than spending on any other health care category, new government data released Wednesday shows. | |
| | | | U.S. Spending On Mental Health Care Soaring | HealthDay News | 08/05/2009 | | U.S. spending on mental illness is soaring at a faster pace than spending on any other health care category, new government data released Wednesday shows. | |
| | | | Antidepressant Use In U.S. Has Almost Doubled | US News | 08/03/2009 | | Antidepressant use among U.S. residents almost doubled between 1996 and 2005, along with a concurrent rise in the use of other psychotropic medications, a new report shows. | |
| | | | Stigma Battle Continues In San Jose | The Mercury News | 08/03/2009 | | The widening gap was readily apparent from the start. Kipp Berdiansky, co-owner of the controversial Psycho Donuts, dressed in doctor's scrubs to emphasize the theme of his Campbell shop and offered host Rosy Chu a complimentary T-shirt and bubble wrap, as are handed out to his customers. | |
| | | | Stopping Antidepressants Can Cause Side Effects | The LA Times | 08/03/2009 | | Ryan Yorke, now 21, started taking Paxil after an out-of-the-blue panic attack his freshman year of high school. At first it worked great. But he gained weight and had other problems -- he started acting up in school and failing classes, for example. So after a year, he -- along with his mother and his psychologist -- decided it was time to stop. | |
| | | | Stopping Antidepressants Can Cause Side Effects | The LA Times | 08/03/2009 | | Ryan Yorke, now 21, started taking Paxil after an out-of-the-blue panic attack his freshman year of high school. At first it worked great. But he gained weight and had other problems -- he started acting up in school and failing classes, for example. So after a year, he -- along with his mother and his psychologist -- decided it was time to stop. | |
| | | | Inside Family To Family | The Porterville Recorder | 07/26/2009 | | A 12-week Family-to-Family Education Program, focused on helping those with a family member diagnosed with a serious mental illness, will be offered at no cost on Monday evenings beginning Aug. 10 in Porterville. | |
| | | | Mental Health Expert Says Healing Possible | The Courier-Journal | 07/24/2009 | | It can be a battle to convince elected officials and policy makers that — with enough resources — people can recover from serious mental illness and lead productive lives, Penelope Frese, a national authority on mental health, told more than 400 people Friday at a conference in Louisville. | |
| | | | Screening For Childhood Depression | ScienceDaily | 07/23/2009 | | New research indicates that screening children for symptoms of depression, the most common mental health disorder in the United States, can begin a lot earlier than previously thought, as early as the second grade. | |
| | | | Doctors Watch Brains Change In Schizophrenic Patients | The Chicago Tribune | 07/22/2009 | | Thanks to a study conducted by Dr. John Csernansky and his colleagues at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, doctors can better diagnose schizophrenia, a devastating and potentially disabling mental illness. | |
| | | | New Frontiers In Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder Research | MIT World | 07/21/2009 | | In contrast to cardiovascular disease, few breakthrough remedies for psychiatric illness have emerged in the past half century. Edward Scolnick lays blame for this dismal situation on barriers to understanding the genetic basis behind such illnesses. | |
| | | | Barret Robbins' Road To Recovery | Fanhouse | 07/20/2009 | | One of the greatest NFL tragedies of the past decade is the story of former Raiders center Barret Robbins, a Pro Bowl player whose career was destroyed and his personal life ruined by a mental illness that took far too long to diagnose. | |
| | | | Best-selling Author Tom Wootton To Deliver Keynote | Examiner.com | 07/20/2009 | | Tom Wootton, author of The Bipolar Advantage will be the keynote speaker. His speech is entitled "Bipolar in Order - Looking at Depression, Mania, and Schizophrenia From the Other Side." | |
| | | | Healing PTSD and Fighting Stigma | The Modesto Bee | 07/19/2009 | | People can heal any hurt, including the lingering trauma that comes from being a soldier in a combat zone, according to an expert on family violence, who gave a presentation Saturday sponsored by the American GI Forum at Teamsters Hall in Modesto. | |
| | | | Percentage Of Veterans With Mental Health Problems Jumps Dramatically | The LA Times | 07/16/2009 | | About 37% of veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan have mental health problems, a nearly 50% increase from the last time the prevalence was calculated, according to a new study published today analyzing national Department of Veterans Affairs data. | |
| | | | When The System Ends In Failure | The Manteca Bulletin | 07/16/2009 | | The grieving Lathrop family of Jeremy Lum is planning a massive lobbying effort they hope will honor their son and bring change in protocol for those arrested with a bipolar condition – possibly having them listed in a national database. | |
| | | | There Is No Way To Sugar Coat These Donuts | PR Newswire | 07/13/2009 | | After several months of protests, media coverage and online uproar, Oscar Wright, the chief executive officer of a leading statewide mental health organization, and Kipp Berdiansky, co-owner of the controversial shop Psycho Donuts, will meet face to face to discuss mental illness, the associated stigma and the shop's questionable business practices. | |
| | | | Study May Prompt Rethink On Schizophrenia Drugs | Reuters | 07/13/2009 | | Schizophrenia patients given a cheap older drug are less likely to die prematurely than people on newer treatments, despite the older product's well-known adverse side effects, Finnish researchers said on Monday. | |
| | | | Serenade In The Key Of Glee | The LA Times | 07/12/2009 | | He was so eager to make the trip, he called several times to make sure it hadn't been canceled. | |
| | | | HBO Presents Boy Interupted | Examiner.com | 07/11/2009 | | On the night of Oct. 2, 2005, 15-year-old Evan Scott Perry ended a lifelong struggle with bipolar disorder by jumping from his New York City bedroom window, leaving behind heartbroken parents, beloved brothers and many friends. Director Dana Perry, along with her husband Hart Perry, tells the story of their son's life and death in the heartbreaking documentary. | |
| | | | Childhood-onset Schizophrenia Remains A Mystery | The LA Times | 07/08/2009 | | So rare is the child form of schizophrenia, it has taken researchers at the National Institute of Mental Health 18 years to diagnosis and collect data on 110 children. | |
| | | | Lassen Agency Earns National Award | Lassen News | 07/07/2009 | | A local mental health advocacy group will receive national recognition later this month from the National Association of Counties for its contribution to Lassen County residents working to recover from mental health issues. | |
| | | | Gene Variants Prove Complexity of Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorders | HealthNews | 07/03/2009 | | A total of 30,000 common gene variations have now been linked to the mental illness known as Schizophrenia. In addition, a similar pattern was discovered in people with bipolar disorder, commonly known as manic depression, indicating a overlap between the two conditions that was previously unrecognized. | |
| | | | A Normal Life With Bipolar Disorder | The Stockton Record | 07/02/2009 | | Not once have others seen me as strange or different - that is until I tell people that I'm bipolar and so is my mom. Shortly after this revelation comes the short pause and the question: Why haven't I seen you act differently? | |
| | | | Educating Law Enforcement | The San Jose Mercury News | 07/02/2009 | | When Pat Dwyer hears of police killing a mentally ill person — like Daniel Pham, who was shot to death last month after he allegedly threatened San Jose officers with a knife — he winces a bit. | |
| | | | Fresno Mental Health Clinic Closed | ABC News | 07/01/2009 | | Fresno County's crisis center for the mentally ill is closed as of Monday. Some have predicted the closure would lead to an overflow of severely mentally ill patients at hospital emergency rooms. But others predict a huge cut in the county's mental health budget could be a good thing for the mentally ill in the long run. | |
| | | | At The Mercy Of Her Mind | The LA Times | 06/29/2009 | | It's been a rough week. A few days ago, at UCLA's Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital, 6-year-old Jani toppled a food cart and was confined to her room. She slammed her head against the floor, opening a bloody cut that sent her into hysterics. Later, she kicked the hospital therapy dog. | |
| | | | War Games | Stars and Stripes | 06/29/2009 | | The military is turning to the virtual world to treat traumatized veterans of the Iraq war, giving troops a high-tech way to confront and overcome mental war wounds. | |
| | | | Governor Dumps Plan To Build Prison Hospitals | The San Fracisco Chronicle | 06/26/2009 | | Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger disowned a tentative agreement Thursday to build prison hospitals to settle lawsuits over shoddy health care for inmates, saying the state won't borrow $1.9 billion for the effort while it's slashing other services. | |
| | | | Hope and Worry | The San Francisco Chronicle | 06/22/2009 | | Increasingly powerful antipsychotic drugs available on the market, and growing evidence that starting these medications early can help children with conditions like bipolar disorder, is putting doctors under more pressure than ever to diagnose and treat young people with mental illnesses. | |
| | | | Sacramento Needs To Fight Patient Dumping | The Sacramento Bee | 06/21/2009 | | When homeless people walk into (or are dropped at) a hospital emergency room, they receive medical treatment. What happens when they are ready to be discharged? | |
| | | | Novelist Kaye Gibbons Faces Yet Another Hurdle | The San Francisco Chronicle | 06/20/2009 | | On a spring day in 2006, as the sun set on the Duke University campus, novelist Kaye Gibbons strode across the lawn. She had just finished speaking at the Festival of the Book, and two of her three daughters trailed behind her. | |
| | | | Santa Barbara Supes Privatize Jail Mental Mealth Services | The Daily Sound | 06/17/2009 | | Enticed by beefed up mental health services at the Santa Barbara County jail for a bargain price, the Board of Supervisors yesterday opted to privatize the mental health unit at the jail, entering into a two-year contract with Prison Health Services Inc. | |
| | | | Toppling The Single-Source Theory | The New York Times | 06/16/2009 | | One of the most celebrated findings in modern psychiatry — that a single gene helps determine one's risk of depression in response to a divorce, a lost job or another serious reversal — has not held up to scientific scrutiny, researchers reported Tuesday. | |
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