Mental Illnesses
What are Different Kinds of Mood Disorders
Mood disorders cause a disturbance in the mood. There are different types of mood disorders such as major depression, dysthymia, postpartum depression, etc. Here is some helpful information about what are different kinds of mood disorders.
Mental Health Perspectives: Part Four
Chasing happiness and ways to find happiness and prevent mental illness.
Mental Health Perspectives: Part Two
Part two features a piece on depression and its effects on the mind and body.
Mental Health Perspectives: Part One
The first part in a series on mental health from the perspective of the mentally ill.
Types of Mental Illness: List of Mental Disorders
There are several types of Mental Illness, disorder of mind. The symptoms and treatment of these vary greatly from type to type. Here is the list of such Mental Disorders…
The Little Book of Trauma Healing: When Violence Strikes and Community Is Threatened
This "Little Book" addresses communities and societies caught in cycles of victimhood and/or violence . . . in other words, those of us who have been traumatized by terrorists or tsunamis, by unsafe and ongoing occupation or oppression.
The Heart Too Long Suppressed: A Chronicle of Mental Illness
"Carol Hebald's The Heart Too Long Suppressed is a most compelling journey through mental crises. Haunting and powerful in its sweep of pain and fear, here finally is a life-affirming memoir from the pen of a born artist. I couldn't put it down. Thomas Szasz's foreword is brilliant."
Mental Hurry: What It Does to The Body
Mental hurry turns us dishonest. Or our dishonesty imparts mental hurry to our attitude.Whatever, but result is the same! It's we only whose life is turning into a living hell!
Autism Spectrum Disorder: is not one disorder but many of them
Autism Spectrum Disorder has many different levels. From low functioning autism to high functioning autism. Autism is a developmental disorder, that affects many areas of human function such as language, and the ability to communicate.
Mental Health Disorders Are Treatable
Health and fitness articles, rsources and advice covering most aspects of health and fitness.
Demon Possession - Is it real or just a mental disorder?
Learn the truth about demon possession, and some facts that validate it as a real condition.
Call to Reprieve Mentally Ill Death Row Inmates
Amnesty International today called for hundreds of mentally ill inmates of death row in the United States to have their sentences commuted.
Air Marshals Knew Man Was Mentally Ill Before Opening Fire
· Wife tried to warn agents as husband ran down aisle · Doubts over claim that man said he had bomb
Recovery and Healing from Abuse and Trauma
Victims of abuse in all its forms - verbal, emotional, financial, physical, and sexual - are often disorientated. They require not only therapy to heal their emotional wounds, but also practical guidance and topical education. At first, the victim is, naturally, distrustful and even hostile. The therapist or case worker must establish confidence and rapport painstakingly and patiently.
How Victims are Affected by Abuse
Repeated abuse has long lasting pernicious and traumatic effects such as panic attacks, hypervigilance, sleep disturbances, flashbacks (intrusive memories), suicidal ideation, and psychosomatic symptoms. The victims experience shame, depression, anxiety, embarrassment, guilt, humiliation, abandonment, and an enhanced sense of vulnerability.
Execution Nears for Mentally Ill Texas Killer
The state of Texas is due to execute a paranoid schizophrenic man who believes microchips have been planted in his head to regulate his behaviour and that Satan has granted him a full stay and a pardon. Kelsey Patterson, who missed half of his trial after he was ejected from the court due...
The Myth of Mental Illness
Descriptive criteria aside, what is the essence of mental disorders? Are they merely physiological disorders of the brain, or, more precisely of its chemistry?
300,000 Mentally Ill in Us Prisons
A handful of alternative schemes has no impact on an unmanageable crisis made worse by closing most mental hospital beds.
Mentally ill artist hailed
A man who has spent almost 40 years in a psychiatric hospital in Cork has been granted a major solo exhibition of paintings by the Irish Museum of Modern Art.
Mental hurry turns us dishonest. Or our dishonesty imparts mental hurry to our attitude.Whatever, but result is the same! It's we only whose life is turning into a living hell!
Autism Spectrum Disorder: is not one disorder but many of them
Autism Spectrum Disorder has many different levels. From low functioning autism to high functioning autism. Autism is a developmental disorder, that affects many areas of human function such as language, and the ability to communicate.
Mental Health Disorders Are Treatable
Health and fitness articles, rsources and advice covering most aspects of health and fitness.
Demon Possession - Is it real or just a mental disorder?
Learn the truth about demon possession, and some facts that validate it as a real condition.
Call to Reprieve Mentally Ill Death Row Inmates
Amnesty International today called for hundreds of mentally ill inmates of death row in the United States to have their sentences commuted.
Air Marshals Knew Man Was Mentally Ill Before Opening Fire
· Wife tried to warn agents as husband ran down aisle · Doubts over claim that man said he had bomb
Recovery and Healing from Abuse and Trauma
Victims of abuse in all its forms - verbal, emotional, financial, physical, and sexual - are often disorientated. They require not only therapy to heal their emotional wounds, but also practical guidance and topical education. At first, the victim is, naturally, distrustful and even hostile. The therapist or case worker must establish confidence and rapport painstakingly and patiently.
How Victims are Affected by Abuse
Repeated abuse has long lasting pernicious and traumatic effects such as panic attacks, hypervigilance, sleep disturbances, flashbacks (intrusive memories), suicidal ideation, and psychosomatic symptoms. The victims experience shame, depression, anxiety, embarrassment, guilt, humiliation, abandonment, and an enhanced sense of vulnerability.
Execution Nears for Mentally Ill Texas Killer
The state of Texas is due to execute a paranoid schizophrenic man who believes microchips have been planted in his head to regulate his behaviour and that Satan has granted him a full stay and a pardon. Kelsey Patterson, who missed half of his trial after he was ejected from the court due...
The Myth of Mental Illness
Descriptive criteria aside, what is the essence of mental disorders? Are they merely physiological disorders of the brain, or, more precisely of its chemistry?
300,000 Mentally Ill in Us Prisons
A handful of alternative schemes has no impact on an unmanageable crisis made worse by closing most mental hospital beds.
Mentally ill artist hailed
A man who has spent almost 40 years in a psychiatric hospital in Cork has been granted a major solo exhibition of paintings by the Irish Museum of Modern Art.