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SAMHSA Report: About 20% of Adults Experienced Mental Illness Last Year
12 hours ago
by Clearview Treatment
About 30 percent of adults ages 18 to 25 experienced a mental illness in the past year, according to a new report by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). For those ages 50 and older, about 14 percent struggled with a diagnosable mental, behavioral, or emotional dis ...
Clearview Treatment Center - clearviewtreatment.com
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Dead Fall Trail - Good Indie Horror
// movies
12 hours ago
by Allison
Movie: Dead Fall Trail My Rating: 4 stars Sometimes it’s hard for indie filmmakers to create goodhorror films. This shouldn’t be the casebecause horror is one of the few genres that actually works really well on asmall budget. I know that always makespeople immediately think of The Blair Witch Proje ...
My Film Habit - myfilmhabit.com
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Treatment Not Jail; Incarceration Will Fail
14 hours ago
by Madeline Sharples
I participated in my very first press conference yesterday – about the failure of the jail system in treating the mentally ill. The system doesn’t have the training, experience, or facilities to treat the mentally ill. They belong in hospitals or other health care facilities. Nancy Speer whose son B ...
Choices - madeline40.blogspot.com
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Your Crazy!
// science
16 hours ago
by icliks
(This appears to be a spoof, but it makes the point.) Subject: RE: ANTI-GOVERNMENT PHOBIA. You are mentally ill? A CLINICAL ANALYSIS OF ANTI-GOVERNMENT PHOBIA Ivor E. Tower, M.D. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry Volume 11, series 3, pages 4-5 This study conclusively demonstrates that unfounded fear of ...
Icliks Incoming - icliks.wordpress.com
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Your Faithful Correspondent Notes This In Passing
16 hours ago
by Ken & Carol
The story appeared in the LA Times but the hamburger lover was supposed to be an Arizona resident. Those are not white trousers on his lower half. I suppose one could suggest that maybe the mental illness was caused by excessive consumption of McDonald's hamburgers. I prefer to think that his bizarr ...
Muellerstuff: A History of ... - muellerstuff.blogspot.com
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Thoughts from Jeff…a member of our Wednesday outreach team
17 hours ago
by admin
If you look at me, and squint really hard, I look like God. Whoa! Don’t be hasty! Unless you ask my little sister, I’m not that cocky. What I mean is, I’m made in God’s image. If you’d like to use a different metaphor, I have my Father’s eyes. I bring this up because sometimes people ask me what I d ...
Homelessness, Poverty in ... - ottawainnercityministries.ca
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Shyness, Grieving Soon to be Classified as Mental Illness
17 hours ago
by Pastor Mark Kelly
I read this fascinating article at the FoxNews website. I’ve highlighted some things that stand out to me: Millions of healthy people – including shy or defiant children, grieving relatives and people with fetishes – may be wrongly labeled mentally ill by a new international diagnostic manual, speci ...
Grace Dependent - gracedependent.com
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Why It’s Not Altruistic to Help the Poor
18 hours ago
by Lisa Wade
In an earlier post we reviewed research by epidemiologists Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett showing that income inequality contributes to a whole host of negative outcomes, including higher rates of mental illness, drug use, obesity, infant death, imprisonment, and interpersonal trust. She summari ...
Sociological Images - thesocietypages.org/socimages
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Hope for BPD
19 hours ago
by sisters
As many of you know, we have several family members who suffer from a mental illness called Borderline Personality Disorder. In our search to understand this illness, we came across a video by Christian pyschologist David Powlison. We found this video to be very helpful and hopeful. Dr. David Powlis ...
Light of Letters - lightofletters.blogspot.com
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