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The historic passage of the federal health care legislation last week included a provision for a new national postpartum depression (PPD) program. It leaves out the federal screening program so feared by the bill’s opponents, but it includes more money
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“I’m tired of paying for everyone else’s stupidity,” is a comment I read on the Internet last week after the health care bill was passed. It summed up the views of many Americans worried about shelling out higher premiums and
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When the actor Stephen Fry revealed he suffered from bipolar disorder, he said he wanted ‘to fight the public stigma and give a clearer picture of a mental illness most people know little about’. No doubt the other celebrities who’ve
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The New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) is distributing informational palm cards on the signs of postpartum depression (PPD) and other perinatal mood disorders to new locations throughout Salem County. The small card is part of a
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God, evolution and depression. Now that is a combination to try the soul and test the limits of moral accounting. But let’s give it a go anyway. All three subjects, favourites of mine, currently exist in disputed states. God has
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Laws that prevent same-sex couples from getting married deprive them of many benefits and privileges that heterosexual married couples have under federal and state laws. Thus, bans on gay marriage are examples of institutional discrimination- societal-level conditions that constrain the
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When Brandon Bilodeau was accused in January 2007 of stabbing a fellow state prison inmate, he was transferred out of the prison’s psychiatric unit. For 2½ months, Bilodeau, who received medications for depression, hallucinations and mood disorders, was held 23
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Though he says he has no recollection of the incident, Abdullah El-Amin Shareef believes he is not guilty of the road rampage that killed one person and injured four on April 14, 2004, according to a psychiatrist who testified in
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A newspaper lying in Steve Miller’s kitchen blared the latest front-page news about a person with schizophrenia. The big black headline announced: “Becker guilty.” The paper showed a picture of a stone-faced Mark Becker, the 24-year-old Parkersburg man who was
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Celebrities may be the cause of a growing number of diagnoses of bi-polar disorder. Dr Diana Chan and Dr Lester Sireling, psychiatrists from the Royal College of Psychiatrists, have suggested that this increase could be due to the willingness of
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Am I as happy as I should be? We’ve become so obsessed with that question that it’s making us miserable, says psychotherapist Gary Greenberg. Look at pop culture, says Greenberg, 52, who has worked as a therapist for 26 years:
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The latest American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, which has been released after 7 years of constant analysis and work, seems to have disappointed many, with some experts stressing that the latest release is like a proof of the
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