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Sandy Hook Commission Studying Mental Health Following Newtown Massacre
The Hartford CourantAfter focusing on guns for the past two months, the governor’s Sandy Hook Advisory Commission held its first public hearing Friday on mental health issues related to the Newtown massacre. Kim Pernerewski, the president of the Waterbury chapter...Tags: Health, Psychiatrists, Hospitals and Clinics, West Hartford, Behavioral Conditions
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Power Needed To Make Potentially Dangerous People Take Their Meds
Connecticut needs to help the tiny group of mentally ill people trapped in the revolving door of madness, homelessness, hospitalization and prison simply because they won't take their medication. This state should join the 44 others that allow so-called...
Tags: Judges, Chemical Industry, Pharmaceuticals, Behavioral Conditions, Asthma
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Dawn Turner Trice: Making the most of postpartum depression
When Chicago clinical psychologist Susan Benjamin Feingold had postpartum depression more than two decades ago, not many people were taking the illness seriously. Some doctors were even telling women all they needed to do for their "baby blues" was to eat...
Tags: Psychiatry, Insomnia, Behavioral Conditions, Stress, Heart Attack
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Those who suffer need treatment; most don't deserve indictment
This story was originally published February 10, 2013. The Virginia Tech shooter, Seung-Hui Cho, was diagnosed with severe social anxiety disorder as a teenager. In Aurora, Colo., the defense attorney for the accused shooter James Eagen Holmes,...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Diabetes, Arthritis, Behavioral Conditions, Politics
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D303 summit tackles mental illness, school safety
Parents, staff and other members of the St. Charles District 303 community came together recently in the first of several forums to discuss the intersection of mental illness and school security. After the deadly mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary...
Tags: Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, Health, Behavioral Conditions, Symptoms, Health and Safety at School
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How much weight does Jesse Jackson Jr.'s illness deserve in the scales of justice?
If you think that Jesse Jackson Jr.'s mental illness explains away all his bad behavior, you may need treatment for an excessively mushy heart. If you think his mental illness explains absolutely nothing, you are suffering from a heart made of nails....
Tags: Jimi Hendrix, Bruce Lee, Malcolm X, Mayo Clinic, Behavioral Conditions
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A test for Md. gun bill
Gov. Martin O'Malley's gun control bill faces a crucial test this week, when it is expected to receive committee votes in the House of Delegates. Although the legislation passed the Senate with strong support — and despite polling showing the vast...
Tags: Martin O'Malley, Judges, Hospitals and Clinics, Assault, Behavioral Conditions
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Police training on complaints involving mental health patients
Daily American Staff WriterRobert Ethan Saylor, who had Down syndrome, died at the age of 26 while in custody last month. Saylor of Frederick, Md., was in a movie theater. When the movie ended, he wanted to see it again and refused to leave. Theater employees called three off-duty...Tags: Health, Somerset County (Maryland), Behavioral Conditions, Autism, Consumers
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Mental illness and guns: the issue is suicide
Some years ago, I was called by one of my patients who had just suffered severe rejection in a love relationship. She told me that she was on her way to buy a gun but thought she might call me first. I suggested that she come see me before she purchased a...
Tags: Corporate Officers, Suicide, Murder, Gun Control, Behavioral Conditions
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Help is available for college students struggling with mental illness
As someone who has struggled with mental illness for over 20 years, I could closely relate to Kevin Rector's article about students having difficulty finding and getting mental health services at their colleges and universities ("Students struggle for...
Tags: Health, Hospitals and Clinics, Behavioral Conditions, Sheppard Pratt Health System, Teaching and Learning
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CDC: Smoking more common among people with mental illness
Adults with mental illnesses are more likely to smoke cigarettes and less likely to quit than people without mental illnesses, said a recent report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Thirty-six percent of the mentally ill smoke,...
Tags: Human Rights, Behavioral Conditions, Substance Abuse, Heart Attack, Politics
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Filings provide glimpses of defense strategy for Pa. man charged in two homicides
waynesboro@herald-mail.comThe defense team working for a Pennsylvania man charged in two homicides is investigating evidence of possible mental illnesses, developmental delays, head injuries and substance abuse addiction to use at trial. Because of that work, attorneys for...Tags: Trials, Prosecution, Lawyers, Murder, Behavioral Conditions
Mar 22, 2013
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Mar 27, 2013
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Mar 26, 2013
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Mar 21, 2013
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Feb 20, 2013
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Mar 18, 2013
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Mar 15, 2013
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Mar 17, 2013
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Mar 12, 2013
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Mar 13, 2013
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Jan 24, 2013
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