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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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Those with more severe depressive symptoms report more relationship distress, U.S. researchers found. Twin sisters Leanne Knobloch of the University of Illinois and Lynne Knobloch-Fedders of The Family Institute at Northwestern University said more than three decades of research has
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A new study proved that the My Mood Monitor (M-3) – an online one-page secure questionnaire used to self-gauge mood and “relative risk for depression, an anxiety disorder, bipolar disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)” – is a useful and
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Diabetics with major depression are more than twice as likely to develop dementia compared to individuals with diabetes alone, found in a new study. The link between major depression diabetes and dementia is discovered from an analysis of the Pathways
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Four years ago, David Floody retired to Tofino, still called the tough city as an echo of its wild days as a busy fishing port. After a lifetime of teaching English in high school, he wanted to write novels. But
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People who are obese are at increased risk of becoming depressed, and people who are depressed are at increased risk of becoming obese, Dutch researchers have found. “There is a reciprocal association over time between depression and obesity,” Dr. Floriana
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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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As more children become diagnosed with mood disorders, more parents are speaking out about their struggles. This fall, a small group of caregivers who for years had suffered alone in dealing with their children and grandchildren with mood disorders came
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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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Adjunctive asenapine is effective in patients with mania associated with bipolar I disorder who had failed to respond completely to treatment with lithium or valproate, according to study results presented here on March 1 at the European Psychiatric Association (EPA)
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It’s easy to write suicidal people off as mentally unstable or think of them as foolish, but there are societal reasons for suicide that go beyond mental health. While it’s true that mood disorders are present in 30 percent of
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Fueling recent criticism of educational DVDs for toddlers, a new study finds that kids do not improve language skills after viewing one such product, the Baby Wordsworth from the Walt Disney Company’s Baby Einstein series. While The Baby Einstein Company
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