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Understanding mental illness not a crazy idea - The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) reports approximately one in five adults in the U.S. — 43.8 million people — experiences mental illness  ...

Understanding Mental Health : Defining mental illness   -  MENTAL illness is just like any other illness,” said Dr. Laureen Conanan, chief of Southern Philippines Medical Center's Institute of Psychology and  ...

In 1 week, media rolls back progress on understanding mental illness   -Whatever progress Americans have made in understanding and accepting mental illness — and it wasn't much — has been fairly well undone by the ...

Understanding the mental health and mental illness continuum - Well-being is all about the quality of life a person perceives him or herself to have, regardless of whether a mental illness is present or not. Thus, someone with a mental illness might be able to have optimal mental health , and a person with no mental illness might have difficulty coping with stresses ...

Understanding mental illness  - The National Alliance on Mental Illness committee in Effingham is considering ways to start an educational 12-week class for anyone ...

Understanding mental illness  - People with mental illness are often ignored and mistreated. In some cases they are often chained and locked up in a room. Not only that but taking a ...

Understanding mental illness  - When it comes to health, most people think only in terms of physical, not mental, well being. The WHO defines mental health as a state of well being in ...

The new guidebook for understanding mental illness  - But many Americans with mental health disorders aren't as fortunate. APA leaders hope the new book will help close the gap between recognizing ...

Be understanding of mental illness , don't try to find rationale  - Robin Williams' suicide last year should have caused the world to be more understanding of people with mental illness . It hasn't. Robin Williams's ...

Understanding the stigma of childhood mental illness - According to the World Health Organisation, worldwide 10-20% of children and adolescents experience mental illness . Half of all mental illnesses  ...

Be open and understanding of mental illness - It can be so difficult to understand any mental illness if you've never dealt with it. Unfortunately, society has a habit of over-simplifying mental disorders .

Understanding mental illnesses , suicide  - Williams certainly fits the national profile of one most likely to complete a suicide – white, middle-aged, male and a history of mental illness . I believe it ...

Understanding mental health : Internalised stigma is real — and psychiatry must change its approach - Not all of us grew up with a mental illness . One day, we reached a point where we decided we needed help, or we felt forced to seek help, and we ...

How understanding disrupted sleep could help tackle mental illness  - We are only beginning to unravel the genetic and biochemical basis of mental illness – a vague term including conditions as diverse as anxiety, ...

The Only Shame in Mental Illness Is the Shameful Lack of Understanding  - But acknowledge a mental illness , and the world looks at you differently -- with a little apprehension. Or maybe a lot, especially after reading about  ...

5 Great Movies That Portray Mental Illness Perfectly  - I focused on fairly recent works to draw positive attention to how our understanding of mental illness has already progressed. Hopefully, this will ...

Mental illness - and the high cost of macho culture in sport  - Although the reaction was mostly positive, there is still a serious lack of understanding of how serious such issues are – and that mental illness does not  ...

The Blueberry Patch' a brave delve into dealing with mental illness  - In a world where 20-50 percent of those struggling with bipolar disorder attempt to commit suicide, a better understanding of mental illness and its ...

Scientists Have Mapped Out How Our Genes Might Lead to Mental Illness - It's often said mental illness runs in the family. But while that's true, scientists have had very little luck actually understanding how our genes influence our risk of developing major depression or schizophrenia. New research published Friday in Science seems to provide something big needed for that ...

The need to talk about mental illness is greater than ever  - In the last 20 years our understanding of mental illness has greatly changed. Now only the most blinkered person would believe that depression and ...