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 »
Punishment Just Teaches Kids To Be Better Liars Screaming at your toddler for finger-painting your computer won’t deter future acts of deviant self-expression, but it will probably help her tell a more convincing lie in ten years about the missing vodka in your liquor cabinet. In a study most likely funded by crafty, far-sighted children hoping to … 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
While British protesters may still find pies their weapons of choice, glitter is fast becoming the American protest pick. The latest victim? The counseling center of presidential candidate Michele Bachmann’s husband Marcus. The clinic, which receives federal and state funding, has come under fire for reportedly using “pray-away-the-gay” techniques. Marcus Bachmann has come under fire for … Continue reading »
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 »
