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Dead heiress, Casey Johnson, and bisexual lover enhance stigma against "mentally ill"

Recently media hordes descended on the obviously disturbed, but possibly undiagnosed, celebrities Casey Johnson and Tila Tequila, after Ms Johnson was found dead in a friend's LA home by a maid who found her body...

Stern side-kick Artie Lange stabs self nine times in apparent suicide bid

Comedian Artie Lange, a regular on filth-monger Howard Stern's show, recently stabbed himself with a kitchen knife nine times in an apparent suicide attempt at his Hoboken condo. He apparently survived his wounds and has been released...

Charles Haley struggles toward mental wellness as he looks toward football's Hall of Fame

Charles Haley now is 45 years old, and walks with a slight stoop. His graying hair spreads across the head that raged with bipolar storms in his days of professional football. His past reputation for manic craziness belies ...

Florida football coach stress issues common among people with ADHD

Though there is no proof that University of Florida football coach, Urban Meyer, is a man with ADHD; he is definitely a 'workaholic.' Meyer also seems to personify several of the more positive elements of ADHD, including drivenness...

New health care law brings hope to people with mental illness

The recent 2,078-page health care leviathan that swam through Congress had questions regarding health care and insurance reform for those with mental illness. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Senate bill HR 3590, passed on Christmas eve...

Helping your autistic child have a non-disruptive holiday

The holidays are a stressful time for parents and children with autism. Plan in advance to prevent major disruption and change that are hallmarks of the holiday season that come from crowds, lights, noises, and a whole bombardment of stimulation...

Anti-restraint measure in schools introduced in House to protect children with ADHD and autism

US Representatives George Miller (D-CA) and Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) introduced legislation on December 9 that would, for the first time, protect all children in schools from harmful uses of restraint and seclusion. The Preventing Harmful Restraint and...

Depression may be a useful human adaptation for problem solving

Do you think depression is always a bad thing? You might be wrong on that, as two evolutionary psychologists contend. Though you might not hold to the monkey as great-great-grandpa theory, the idea of adaptability over time is...

Seasonal depression need not ruin the holidays

While males suffer from symptoms of SAD, about two to four times more women suffer from it.sadboyAs winter approaches, and daylight diminishes, nearly six to ten percent of the population begin suffering symptoms of seasonal affective disorder, or...

ADD and ADHD diagnosed in adults actually were present in childhood

ADHD and ADD are neurobiological conditions, neuroeccentricities that affect about five percent of the adult population. Some adults are diagnosed in adulthood with ADHD or they have carry-over from the diagnosis in childhood. Over time, 40 percent of children...

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