When the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) – the definitive guide to diagnostic criteria used by U.S. mental health professionals – is updated next May (for the first time in 13 years) one of the new conditions in consideration to be among its pages is hypersexual disorder (HD). Known informally, if not entirely accurately, as “sex addiction,” HD’s inclusion in the … Continue reading »
According to the British Heart Foundation, more than a quarter of teenagers make assumptions about the harm of cigarettes from the wrapping. Heart health campaigners urged the British government Thursday to follow Australia’s lead and ban all eye-catching designs and branding from cigarette packs to stop young people being lured into smoking. Australia is preparing to … Continue reading »
By Joe Myxter, travel editor: msnbc.com A passenger on a US Airways flight said he was forced to stand for seven hours after he was squeezed out of his seat by an obese man sitting next to him. “I didn’t fly from Alaska to Philadelphia on Flight 901,” Arthur Berkowitz told Christopher Elliott, a consumer advocate who … Continue reading »
Read the article at the UK Daily Telegraph Online… http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/8741207/More-than-a-third-of-EU-population-suffer-mental-health-problems.html
From Minnesota Public Radio: For many people, the Internet offers ways to stay connected with friends, catch the latest news or play a game of Scrabble with someone half a world away — but many people who are homeless have a more limited view of the online world. Advocates for the poor say that is … Continue reading »
Are you one of us? The patient wanted to know, and her therapist — Marsha M. Linehan of the University of Washington, creator of a treatment used worldwide for severely suicidal people — had a ready answer. It was the one she always used to cut the question short, whether a patient asked it hopefully, accusingly … Continue reading »
The [Minnesota] Legislature and governor are locked in impasse, largely because it is difficult to find compromise unless transcendent values are held in common. I’d like to suggest one value that liberals and conservative share: the human dignity of every person. Consider the human dignity of Freddy, working all of his adult life, primarily in … Continue reading »
MY friend sat down and ordered a stiff drink. I didn’t think of her as the stiff-drink kind. An hour later, after our spouses drifted off into conversation, she leaned over the table. “I need your help,” she said. “My sister has a brain tumor. I don’t know what to do.” Three years ago this … Continue reading »
The majority of Canadians say they’d be wary of disclosing any mental health issues to their bosses or unions for fear of limiting their career prospects, finds a new national report that highlights the still hobbling efforts to address mental health concerns in the workplace. Approximately 54% of the more than 1,000 respondents surveyed by … Continue reading »
By Mary Elizabeth Dallas, HealthDay News FRIDAY, JUNE 3 – People with mental illness are more likely to die following a heart attack or serious cardiac event, a new study finds. One explanation for this increased risk is that people with mental illness are 14 percent less likely to receive lifesaving treatments for their heart … Continue reading »
