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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: Suicidal Behavior, Politics, Gun Control, Sheppard Pratt Health System, Interior Policy
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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: Students, Sheppard Pratt Health System, Health and Safety at School, Health, Behavioral Conditions
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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: Substance Abuse, Politics, Disease Prevention, Quitting Smoking, Health Treatments
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District 303 summit to tackle mental health as school security topic
The St. Charles community will soon begin discussions surrounding mental health – something social service leaders the say is a unique and necessary step. After the school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., District 303...
Tags: Health and Safety at School, Family, Health, Behavioral Conditions, Social Services
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Assaults on staff are focus of scathing psychiatric hospital report
In-patient units at Spring Grove Hospital Center in Catonsville have become troubled environments where serious assaults on hospital staff are common, according to a scathing new report from a consultant for the Maryland health department. The chaos at...Tags: Defendants, Trials, AFSCME, Psychiatry, Catonsville
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Avon-based Magellan Protests Loss Of Arizona Contract Worth $3 Billion To $5 Billion
The Hartford CourantMagellan Health Services Inc. said Wednesday it is protesting its loss of a state-awarded contract in Arizona worth $3 billion to $5 billion to manage a behavioral health system in the Phoenix region. The Avon-based specialty health insurer has had the...Tags: Laws, Magellan Health Services Incorporated, Medicaid, Abusive Behavior, Health Insurance
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A healthy dose of data
The daily broadcast of medical reports, scientific studies and sociological statistics can cause your ears to ring. Sometimes a report will contradict the findings of another issued just days earlier. More often, compelling snapshots of the American...
Tags: Johns Hopkins University, Death, Disease Prevention, Research, Science and Technology
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Faith and Life: It's OK to cry it out
Why are we taught not to cry? Especially boys and men? Society often gives us the message that crying is weak, wrong, or uncomfortable for others. The truth is, crying is extremely wise. And adults need to cry to heal from grief, anger and many other...Tags: Behavioral Conditions, Mental Health
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Mariel Hemingway urges change to help others find a personal best
Mariel Hemingway, makeup-free and in sweats, is gorgeous. That bone structure, her cheetah-like build and flowing hair have been familiar for decades. What's disarming is her forthright approach to a rough family history and her determination to live...
Tags: Entertainment, Depression, Ernest Hemingway, Behavioral Conditions, Manhattan (movie)
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Sun wrong on involuntary commitment bill
The Sun's April 5 editorial ("The tricky question of involuntary commitment") misses two critical points about the bill to clarify mental health civil commitment standards in Maryland, and it misstates another. The bill's key component — making...Tags: Behavioral Conditions, Health, Symptoms, Mental Health, Crime, Law and Justice
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The tricky question of involuntary commitment
Deciding to get a person with a serious mental illness into treatment is one of the most important steps families can take to protect a loved one's health and well-being. Unfortunately, it also can be one of the most difficult. Many mentally ill people...Tags: Government, Politics, Executive Branch, General Practitioners, Behavioral Conditions
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Alzheimer's support group meets second Thursday of the month
These groups meet regularly. Adolescents Who Have Lost a Loved One to Suicide — Mondays, April 8, 15, 22 and 29, 7 p.m. Grassroots Crisis Intervention is hosting a four-week support and education group for adolescents who have lost a loved one to...Tags: Gays and Lesbians, Minority Groups, Sheppard Pratt Health System, Behavioral Conditions, Parkinson's Disease
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