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This message was self-deleted by its author 0 HereSince1628 Jan 2016 Jan 2016 0 1725
UK: More than 2/3rds of suspects tasered were considered mentally ill by police 0 HereSince1628 Dec 2015 Dec 2015 1 1804
N.J. psych practice revealed patients' mental disorders in debt lawsuits 4 HereSince1628 Dec 2015 Dec 2015 2 2597
Cops 16x more likely to kill people with untreated mental illness 2 HereSince1628 Dec 2015 Dec 2015 0 2100
NYTimes Editorial Board:Don’t Blame Mental Illness for Gun Violence 1 HereSince1628 Dec 2015 Dec 2015 0 2047
Psychiatric assessments for predicting violence are ineffective 0 HereSince1628 Dec 2015 Dec 2015 1 1698
What if everything we know about depression is wrong. 2 elleng Sep 2014 Dec 2015 1 2977
NIH: What is schizophrenia? 0 LiberalArkie Dec 2015 Dec 2015 0 1971
Speaker Ryan sees mentally ill at root of all mass shootings 4 HereSince1628 Dec 2015 Dec 2015 0 2464
A Reminder That 'Princess Leia' Is An O.G. Mental Health Hero 1 LiberalArkie Oct 2015 Nov 2015 3 3311
'Game-Changer' Study Says There's A Better Way To Treat Schizophrenia 0 LiberalArkie Oct 2015 Oct 2015 2 2108
Talk therapy found to ease schizophrenia. 0 elleng Oct 2015 Oct 2015 0 1849
I have been trying to about 1.5 years to lose weight and zero and I think it is a med. 12 Maraya1969 Aug 2015 Oct 2015 0 4166
A paper that helps explain rep and dem views on cause of mass shootings 0 HereSince1628 Oct 2015 Oct 2015 1 1956
Is There a Link Between Mental Health and Gun Violence? 0 HereSince1628 Oct 2015 Oct 2015 1 1655
Stop the Madness: Schizophrenia in America 3 LiberalArkie Oct 2015 Oct 2015 3 2179
Mental Illness, Mass Shootings, and the Politics of American Firearms 1 HereSince1628 Oct 2015 Oct 2015 2 4531
John Oliver on Mental Health (video) 6 antigop Oct 2015 Oct 2015 1 2963
THIS IS CRAZY: CRIMINALIZING MENTAL HEALTH 0 davidpdx Sep 2015 Sep 2015 1 1922
Sex bias in mental healt treatment...psychologists prescribe boys antipsychotic drugs 6 HereSince1628 Jul 2015 Aug 2015 0 3339
What A Shaman Sees In A Mental Hospital 0 SHRED Aug 2015 Aug 2015 7 2116
Hollywood aims for awareness in slew of summer films on mental illness 0 inanna Aug 2015 Aug 2015 0 1628
A Psychologist as Warden? Jail and Mental Illness Intersect in Chicago 0 mopinko Aug 2015 Aug 2015 3 1983
Surviving an alcoholic 2 elleng May 2015 Jul 2015 0 2439
Need help -- emergency order of detention 6 antigop Feb 2015 Jul 2015 0 3447
Some professionals' writing on sexual activity among siblings and cousins. 1 HereSince1628 May 2015 May 2015 1 4635
Mental Health Awareness Week 0 polly7 May 2015 May 2015 0 1711
Seeking a discussion/information on drivers licenses. 25 chknltl Apr 2015 May 2015 0 6320
Mindfulness 'option for depression' -BBC News 1 Ilsa Apr 2015 Apr 2015 2 1933
Why different therapies work for the same problem? Researcher say, Maybe it's not the therapy 0 HereSince1628 Apr 2015 Apr 2015 4 1709

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Do people have episodes in their lives 28 Aerows Nov 2014 Apr 2015 0 9613
The Guardian: Claims about Andreas Lubitz's mental health only serve to stigmatise depression 3 inanna Mar 2015 Mar 2015 1 2214
Need info please. Does anyone know Family of Origin therapy? 1 7wo7rees Feb 2015 Feb 2015 0 1943
Canada stands tall in global fight against depression (Globe & Mail) 0 inanna Jan 2015 Jan 2015 2 1847
"Is depression a kind of allergic reaction?" 3 applegrove Jan 2015 Jan 2015 3 3112
Depression doesn’t make you sad all the time (UK Guardian) 6 inanna Jan 2015 Jan 2015 3 3090
Anti-inflammatory drugs ‘could fight depression’ (The Guardian) 4 inanna Dec 2014 Dec 2014 5 2703
If you take anti-depressants ... you get thrown out of Panama City Rescue mission. 3 HereSince1628 Nov 2014 Dec 2014 1 2411
Vietnam Vets pushing up the V.A.'s PTSD treatment numbers 0 HereSince1628 Nov 2014 Nov 2014 0 2178
Did familial race and affluence influence mental health interventions for Adam Lanza? 2 HereSince1628 Nov 2014 Nov 2014 2 2268
Spokane attorney: State hospital patients with no mental illness should be released 2 HereSince1628 Nov 2014 Nov 2014 0 2195
Alive Inside...if you haven't seen story of music and Alzheimers here is an intro 4 HereSince1628 Nov 2014 Nov 2014 3 2661
Bingo??? Did I hear someone call a... mental illness stigma bingo 4 HereSince1628 Nov 2014 Nov 2014 2 8083
Prosocial internet support, no greater benefit to reducing depression in brst cancer survivors 0 HereSince1628 Nov 2014 Nov 2014 0 1831
Women with serious mental illness significantly less likely to receive cancer screening 0 HereSince1628 Nov 2014 Nov 2014 1 1759
Mental Health Problems Increase Cardiovascular Risks 0 HereSince1628 Nov 2014 Nov 2014 2 1794
UT St Hosp violates law holds patients for mental competency -evaluation- too long 0 HereSince1628 Nov 2014 Nov 2014 0 1727
$142 mil "saved". Legal change raises bar for compensation for post-accident mental injuries. 0 HereSince1628 Nov 2014 Nov 2014 0 2003
Link to Denver Post 4 part series BREAKDOWN 0 HereSince1628 Nov 2014 Nov 2014 0 1740
Imagination, reality flow in opposite directions in the brain 0 HereSince1628 Nov 2014 Nov 2014 2 1668
x-posted from GD...bad case of abuse of a person on psych drugs 0 HereSince1628 Nov 2014 Nov 2014 0 1871
The 2013 numbers are in...43.8 million Americans with mental illness 2 HereSince1628 Nov 2014 Nov 2014 0 1978
New Yorker: Is There a Link Between Mental Health and Gun Violence? 5 HereSince1628 Nov 2014 Nov 2014 1 2587
Massachusetts NAMI chapter survey on attitudes toward mental illness 2 HereSince1628 Nov 2014 Nov 2014 0 2133
x-posted from GD. 4 HereSince1628 Nov 2014 Nov 2014 2 2391
Multiple factors (mostly substance use) associated with guns & violence among youth 2 HereSince1628 Nov 2014 Nov 2014 0 2378
Link to interactive graphic: geography of mental illness and mental health service by state 2 HereSince1628 Oct 2014 Nov 2014 0 2129
Most provocative study of suicide ever? Best predictors of suicide are psychiatric treatment 4 HereSince1628 Nov 2014 Nov 2014 4 2743
Disagreeing with political solutions generates DENIAL that the problem exists 0 HereSince1628 Nov 2014 Nov 2014 0 1731
Afraid to be you and me? The secret dual lives of persons with mental illness 0 HereSince1628 Oct 2014 Oct 2014 4 2069

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This message was self-deleted by its author 0 cbayer Oct 2014 Oct 2014 2 1674
Under compulsion NY Mental Health Professionals add 34,500 to Div. Criminal Justice Database 7 HereSince1628 Oct 2014 Oct 2014 1 3349
In Toronto, mental illness, homeless more important to discrimination than race 0 HereSince1628 Oct 2014 Oct 2014 0 1830
Childhood psychological abuse as harmful as sexual or physical abuse 2 HereSince1628 Oct 2014 Oct 2014 3 2467
Lawyers move: jailing mentally ill (while awaiting court ordered assessment) unconstitutional 0 HereSince1628 Oct 2014 Oct 2014 3 1763
in dual dx's, drug abuse trtmt reduces violence more than trtmt of mental illness 2 HereSince1628 Oct 2014 Oct 2014 2 2003
Ran across this definition of mental health, supposedly from the WHO 6 HereSince1628 Sep 2014 Sep 2014 1 3609
Joy (clothing store) tweets itself into bigger hole over greeting card mocking bipolar 2 HereSince1628 Sep 2014 Sep 2014 0 2269
"Bully-Victims" an abusive creation of bullying 0 HereSince1628 Sep 2014 Sep 2014 0 1980
Sibling bullying linked to later (young adult) depression, self-harm 2 HereSince1628 Sep 2014 Sep 2014 0 2617
Is stigma preventing reportage of domestic violence between same sex couples? 2 HereSince1628 Sep 2014 Sep 2014 0 2672
Child abuse is to mental illness as smoking is to cancer 3 HereSince1628 Sep 2014 Sep 2014 3 2292
Off the Drugs, Onto the Cupcakes 0 elleng Sep 2014 Sep 2014 0 2020
Mentally ill suffer in sick health system. 5 HereSince1628 Sep 2014 Sep 2014 2 2797
Pesticides and Depression 0 KT2000 Sep 2014 Sep 2014 3 1686
Treatment-resistant depression 9 ellenrr Aug 2014 Aug 2014 0 3594
Mental illnesses besides depression lower life expectancy 1 HereSince1628 Aug 2014 Aug 2014 5 1934
friends need help, mentally ill grown son at home 6 wordpix Aug 2014 Aug 2014 0 2996
Allen Frances, disses a gift of half a billion for genetic research in Mental Health 0 HereSince1628 Jul 2014 Jul 2014 0 1703
Hedonic Costs, why it's understandable that people discriminate against mentally ill 4 HereSince1628 Jul 2014 Jul 2014 2 2828
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