Mental Health Examiner

Pets can be a great antidote to holiday stress '(video)'

Thu, 24 Dec 2009 10:45:24 -0700

Holidays can be full of fun, family, and food. They can also cause immense stress for those people caught up in having to have the perfect tree, perfect table setting, perfect family photo, and so on. The holidays can also be stressful for those w...

Hayden Wright: Drunk four-year-old accused of stealing presents '(video)'

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:41:41 -0700

Hayden Wright was found walking down in the street in stolen clothing after drinking a beer. He's been accused of drinking a beer and then stealing Christmas presents from a neighbor. What could bring a toddler to do such a thing?...

Quest for physical perfection killed former Miss Argentina

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:06:20 -0700

Jane Fonda says, "No more plastic surgery." (AP Photo/Hermann J. Knippertz) What she had--a beauty title and admiration by Argentinians--was not enough. Former Miss Argentina Magnano Solange wanted more. She wanted to be perfect. There ar...

Shaniya Davis found: Searchers find body of five year old girl in North Carolina

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:55:57 -0700

Undated photo of Shaniya Davis National Center for Missing and Exploited Children MSNBC and CNN both report the body of Shaniya Davis, aged 5, has been found off a road southeast of Sanford, NC in the central part of the state.Shaniya Davis Found, ...

Searchers find body of five-year-old girl in North Carolina

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:36:42 -0700

Breaking news from MSNBC said the body of Shaniya Davis (5) has been found.

Her mother faces human trafficking and other charges. It is thought she prostituted out her daughter.

Details to follow.

Fort Hood Texas Army Base mass shooting: Allahu akbar--the cry of a mentally ill man or a terrorist?

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:32:11 -0700

Col. John Rossi, right, looks on as Col. Steven Braverman speaks during a media briefing 11/6/09. (AP Photo/LM Otero) Witnesses described the mass shooter as yelling, "Allahu akbar" as he fired. Was that the cry of a mentally ill individua...

Fort Hood Texas Army Base mass shooting: What made Major Malik Nadal Hasan shoot?

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:40:54 -0700

Twelve people are dead, but the alleged gunman Major Nadal Hasan is alive, after a mass shooting at the Fort Hood Texas Army Base. Thirty one are wounded, some seriously. Two other alleged gunmen are being held. The Army post is currently CLOSED....

Is technology messing up our memories?

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:39:00 -0700

Can you trust your memories? Dreamstime.com CNN asks, Do digital diaries mess up your brain? An interesting question. In the past folks had to rely on their memories, fading photographs, or their siblings' recollections to recall an event or a per...

Balloon boy controversy: Would you ask your kids to lie?

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:13:17 -0700

(AP Photo/KMGH-TV ) If the "balloon boy" controversy turns out to be true--that the whole thing was a hoax--it means that the parents asked their children to lie. First, the older boy would have been asked to lie about seeing h...

Was six-year-old boy in a balloon at 7,000 feet?

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:59:29 -0700

In this image rendered from video and released by KMGH-TV in Denver, a hot-air balloon is seen over Colorado, near Fort Collins. It was thought that a 6-year-old boy climbed into a hot-air balloon aircraft and floated away Thursday, forcing official...

Women dish on their guys

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:15:05 -0700

Mental Health 101: Five communication recommendations

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:29:19 -0700

A hearty laugh can make your day

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 20:30:02 -0700

Domestic violence: Guerline stayed with husband and now she and her five children are dead

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:25:34 -0700

Mesac Damas is escorted by police after his arrest in Port-au-Prince, Monday, Sept. 21, 2009. Damas, who was detained for the Florida slaying of his wife and their five children, said Monday that he returned to his native Caribbean nation "to s...

Workplace violence: Was strangled Yale student, Annie Le, a victim of it?

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:39:00 -0700

Raymond Clark III 24, is arraigned at Superior Court in New Haven, Conn., Thursday Sept. 17, 2009 in connection with the murder of Annie Le, a Yale graduate student whose body was found stuffed in the wall of the research building where they both wo...

They call themselves patriots but some are xenophobic, jingoistic, and racist

Sat, 12 Sep 2009 20:37:14 -0700

What do people have to be paranoid about now that Obama's school speech is over?

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:16:45 -0700

President Barack Obama delivers a speech on education at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Va., Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2009. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) Much ado about nothing, tempest in a teapot, mountain out of a molehill can be phrases to describe t...

Online therapy: My name is Eliza, how may I help you?

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:30:05 -0700

dreamstime.com ELIZA was a first attempt at online therapy. A computer program developed in the 1960s, E...

Wait--Chris Brown does remember attacking Rihanna

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 08:54:31 -0700

Released by CNN (AP Photo/CNN, Peter Stone) TMZ.com reports that Chris Brown does remember the assault on Rihanna, and that the Larry King Show took his statement out of context, or maybe...

Chris Brown "doesn't remember" assaulting Rihanna

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:52:25 -0700

In this image released by CNN, performer Chris Brown is shown during an interview Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2009, on the "Larry King Live," show in Los Angeles. The interview is scheduled to air on Wednesday, Sept. 2. (AP Photo/CNN, Peter Stone...