Health Care: Problems and Solutions

The following is an analysis of the problems with American medical system as gained from multiple standpoints, and some proposed solutions to the same.- The lack of basic general government care is a problem especially for the working poor, but now increasingly for the middle...

NYS OCFS: "A culture of brutality" at Tryon

According to a lawyer who has brought several cases against the State of New York, a recently issued U.S. Department of Justice report critical of four state-run juvenile detention facilities verifies within New...

Social institutions contribute to homosexual youth suicide

"Someday, maybe, there will exist a well-informed, well considered and yet fervent public conviction that the most deadly of all possible sins is the mutilation of a child's spirit." Erik Erikson Social...

Psycho Donuts Store in California Draws Customers and Protests

Psycho Donuts is a fairly new store that has opened in Campbell California and is considered an 'edgy' doughnut shop', and although it is drawing customers, it is also drawing protests as well. Jordan Zweigoron...

Cop's "Jungle Monkey" Comments Sign of Color Aroused Illness?

Officer's Extreme Color Aroused  Ideation, Emotion and Behavior Point Toward Extreme Color Aroused Disorder A Boston, MA police officer, Justin L. Barrett, has been fired after writing an e-mail to a Boston Globe columnist in which he called Harvard University'...

Rorschach Blots Wikipedia Post: Rorschach Test Posted Online

Doctor James Heilman from Saskatchewan, Canada, has posted the Rorschach Test plates to Wikipedia. This means that the Rorschach Test ink blot images, which one would not normally see outside of a clinical setting,...

Have psychiatric wards changed?

"If you found yourself locked up against your will in a psychiatric ward, you would probably do your best to get out. But in 1969 a group of people did just the opposite — they tried to get in. A young American psychologist called David Rosenhan persuaded seven friends...

Hundreds die in 'hidden world' of mental hospitals

"Hundreds of people are dying every year while sectioned under the Mental Health Act, the Observer can reveal. New figures released by the Ministerial Council on Deaths in Custody show that in the past 10 years 3,540 of those detained in NHS facilities, including...

Canadian Military will track suicides to include former soldiers

Canada's National Defence Headquarters is changing the way it tracks suicides.  In future. the statistics will include those soldiers that are no longer on active duty. According to the Toronto Star the...

Industry professional describes Greco's murderers as "warehoused"

An Industry School professional has described Renee Greco's murderers as "warehoused". Greco, a 24 year old Buffalo native, was beaten to death while she sat at a table playing cards in a Lockport, NY group home...

Teen Depression

Mental Health is No joke! Teen depression is real and it can happen to any teenage. If you feel your teen is suffering from depression please seek help for them. Don't let them be a stats on a spread sheet. "...

Susan Boyle Admitted to Mental Health Clinic

Britain's got Talent singing sensation Susan Boyle has been admitted to a mental health clinic, apparently suffering from exhaustion.   She finished second to dance troupe Diversity in the Britain's Got Talent...

Obsessive Compulsive Laughter Syndrome In The UK - Mental Health

By Art De Rivers I've seen the evidence and its growing in a shaking nation after MP's expenses have been exposed and Public Expense Rage has increased . Now we also learn MP's are on Suicide Watch !  They...

Study focuses on combat nightmares

Studies are being conducted to reduce combat-related nightmares among Soldiers returning from combat zones. ""A great concern is that a lot of Soldiers coming back from theater having had combat experience have recurring nightmares, along with other symptoms," Peterson said....

Tabi - A Fairy A Day Keeps Abandonment Away

By Art De Rivers Tabi Cockerton is someone I have met online recently. I have also contacted Phil Lockwood in the UK  who does some mental health advocacy who helps her.  It could be said that Tabi's...

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