Psychiatric Times ran a great article recently on the status of mental health on our college and university campuses:
http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/display/article/10168/1430329
Mental Health & the College Crowd
An Editorial Questioning the “Bipolar” Diagnosis
A Board member found this editorial online and shared it with me. It was written by Mike Adams and posted at townhall.com.
YOU AREN’T BIPOLAR, YOU’RE JUST A JERK
It’s getting old, isn’t it? Everyone these days is bipolar or has some other chic mental disorder that he feels excuses his self-centered conduct. Like [...]
JAMA to focus on Mental Health in May 2010 Issue
This is a call for papers by the Journal of the American Medical Association.
In 1990, then-President George H. W. Bush issued a proclamation designating the 1990s as the Decade of the Brain to encourage brain research and also to enhance public awareness of the benefits to be derived from brain research.1 This formal recognition of [...]
New Mental Health Department Seeks to Close Gaps
By Walter C. Jones | Morris News Service | Story updated at 8:59 pm on 7/18/2009
ATLANTA – Peggy McCoy describes herself as a simple country girl who grew up to be the type of grandmother who has trouble saying “no” to her 14 grandchildren, but she praises state social workers with [...]
An Interview With Frank Shelp
from The Baldwin (County, Georgia) Bulletin Online
by Chris McKearney
The Baldwin Bulletin this week was fortunate enough to land an interview with the commissioner of the new state agency that now oversees Central State Hospital.
Dr. Frank Shelp, commissioner of the brand-new Department of Behavioral Health & Developmental Disabilities (DBHDD), spoke at length about a [...]
Georgia Legislators are Hearing Voices
Our state legislators hear voices. They hear the voices of voters demanding lower taxes. They hear the voices of lobbyists who want state support of special interests. Do they hear your voice?
Mental Health America of Northeast Georgia (MHANeGa) is working to be sure that our state’s legislators are aware of Georgia’s [...]
Sleep Disorders Compromise Mental Health
(From the NY Mental Health Examiner)
Sleep and psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia and depression are closely related. With that said, psychiatric disorders are the leading cause of insomnia.
Sleep disorders can cause psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia where as the person experiences paranoia and hallucinations or make existing psychiatric disorders worse by making the person [...]
Mental Illness Is Too Complex to Predict With Gene Tests
From US NEWS & WORLD REPORT, July 2, 2009
A genetic test to predict schizophrenia or bipolar disorder is far off, say researchers who have just found that 30,000 gene variations are involved in the development of those psychiatric disorders, Reuters reports.
Intriguingly, the research, published in the journal Nature , suggests that bipolar disorder and [...]
We Sure Are Cute…for two ugly people
My soon-to-be 22-year-old daughter introduced me to the music of a duo called the Moldy Peaches. Singer Kimya Dawson has done solo work that is awesome as well.
Their music was featured in the movie “Juno.” If you have not seen it, you should.
I am posting the link to this Moldy Peaches song here, [...]
