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Senior Mental Health  - Ignoring depression or any other mental health affliction can prove devastating. It can take away substantially from a senior's independence, affecting ...

Mental-health fair and suicide presentation Monday at high school : Winona Senior High School will host a mental-health fair Monday evening followed by a presentation addressing youth suicide . The event has been organized as a way to inform community members about suicide and provide support in response to the ...

Mom's depression tied to kids ' emotional, intellectual development - Michael Schoenbaum, senior advisor for mental health services, epidemiology, and economics at the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Maryland, told Reuters Health , “I was persuaded before this study that maternal depression has various adverse effects on children over the course of a  ...

Domestic Violence Linked to Psychiatric Disorders in Adults "In this study, we found that both men and women with mental health problems are at an increased risk of domestic violence," senior author Professor Louise M. Howard, PhD, from the Section of Women's Mental Health , Health Service and Population ... America | Las Américas | Português | Español | usca.Stigmabase.org | eGAYlity

Mental illness linked to domestic violence "The evidence suggests that there are two things happening," says senior author Louise Howard. "Domestic violence can often lead to victims developing mental health problems, and people with mental health problems are more likely to experience domestic ... America | Las Américas | Português | Español | usca.Stigmabase.org | eGAYlity

Senior Citizens Get Prescribed Mental Health Drugs At Twice The Rate Of Younger Adults  - visits where a patient had either received a diagnosis of a mental disorder , was prescribed drugs such as antidepressants, saw a psychiatrist, or was ...

Self-stigma' remains a barrier for military mental health : psychiatrist  - The senior psychiatrist with the Canadian Armed Forces says strides have been made in reducing the stigma of mental illness in the ...

: Before college talk to teens about mental health issues  - Thirteen years ago, I lost my son Chris to suicide when he was a senior at Weston High School. Chris was a bright, sensitive young man with great ...

Mental health advocates use technology to prevent and treat anxiety  - Patrick Dix, a senior at Penn State, has used both in-person and tech-based therapy to treat and manage his anxiety disorder . Credit: Rachel Garman.

San Francisco is set to launch an innovative LGBTQ senior telehealth program this year, as mental health issues among the city's older LGBTQ  ... View article...

Bipolar disorder can't stop this Univ. of Colorado senior - By the time she was 20, Vancielli's disorder had progressed to bipolar I, a more severe diagnosis that the National Institute of Mental Health defines as ...

George W Bush's senior adviser describes Donald Trump as mentally unwell - It is not the first time Mr Cohen, who now sits on the America Abroad Media advisory board, has expressed concern about the mental health of Mr ...

Senior Medicare Patrols help fight fraud : In 2009, at a low-income housing complex for seniors, one of the residents was being paid kickbacks to send other residents to mental health counseling. "Basically, it was social hour," said Makeba Huntington, SMP coordinator for Florida. ... USA Today

Military veterans touched by suicide say challenges remain to prevention - To Doran and others, solving the problem can only be accomplished if military senior officials prompt fundamental shifts in how both mental health and ...

Pre-school kids suffering from depression and anxiety: Gujarat - According to senior officials, nearly 2,700 forms flagging mental disorders were received by the health department for further analyses by a team of ...