Tag: mental illness
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Coping with Losing a Pet – Mental Health Help
Authors: Lawrence Robinson, Jeanne Segal, Ph.D., and Robert Segal, M.A. Preface by John Riley Hello, Publisher here and I wanted to share something with you. Yesterday we lost our second pet dog, his name was Jack Jack (white and brown dog in the center) and it was because of sudden heart failure and 2 years…
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Japan’s “Hikikomori” Population Could Top 10 Million
What type of Mental Illness is this and is there a solution? Collected and published by John Riley and brought to you by Nippon.com & frontiersin.org Hikikomori has been defined by a Japanese expert group as having the following characteristics: (1) spending most of the time at home; (2) no interest in going to school or…
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Celebrities Who Are Open About Addiction
Medically Reviewed by Smitha Bhandari, MD on September 10, 2020 Robert Downey Jr. The actor says he used drugs before he was a teenager and spent most of his early career under their influence. He had several high-profile arrests in the late 1990s and early 2000s while misusing alcohol, cocaine, and heroin and spent time in a California…
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Can smartphones help predict suicide?
By Ellen Barry | The New York Times Special thanks to Japantimes.com for making this article available Katelin Cruz at a park near her home in Ware, Mass., on Sept. 1, 2022. Cruz uses a phone and FitBit to submit data about her mood and other metrics to Harvard researchers studying suicidal tendencies. (Kayana Szymczak/The…
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How Does a Court Ordered Mental Health Assessment Work? Is it helpful for rehabilitation.
New Directions and preface by John Riley Preface There is currently a multiple murder trial (Today is October 26th 2022) in which the defendant, Darell Brooks Jr, drove through the Waukesha, WI Christmas Parade killing 6 and injuring more than 60 people (76 Charges). Darrell Brooks is defending himself in the trial after Judge Dorow…
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A Young Man with Substance Abuse and Comorbidity of Multiple Paraphilia: A Case Report
Farzaneh Dehghani1 , * , Azadeh Rahavi1 , Reza Bidaki1 , 2 Department of Psychiatry, Research Center of Addiction and Behavioral Sciences, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran2 Diabetes Research Center, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran* Corresponding Author: Department of Psychiatry, Research Center of Addiction and Behavioral Sciences, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran. E-mail: dehghanifarzane@yahoo.com Abstract Introduction:…
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Understanding an Epidemic
Awareness goals for the reduction of suicide ( Part two of our HereNOW Help series on suicide awareness ) By John C Riley | HereNOW Help Staff Why does this matter? Suicide is a troubling public health issue that leaves a lasting impact on families and communities. Between 1999 and 2019, the suicide death rate…
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The Comorbidity of Anxiety and Depression
By Beth Salcedo, MD – NAMI When a person experiences two or more illnesses at the same time, those illnesses are considered “comorbid.” This concept has become the rule, not the exception, in many areas of medicine, and certainly in psychiatry. Up to 93% of Medicare dollars are spent on patients with four or more comorbid disorders.…
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Lindsey Vonn reveals her struggle with mental health adding she can still be ‘strong’ while feeling down
By ASHLEIGH GRAY Lindsey Vonn got candid while speaking with MSNBC reporter Nicolle Wallace about her mental health journey. The 37-year-old athlete was a guest on the network’s limited series Deadline: Special Report, where she noted she was diagnosed with depression. ‘I was diagnosed with depression and given medication and I still resisted therapy because I still thought there…
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8 Substance Abuse Nursing Care Plans
Nurselabs.com What is Substance Abuse? Drug abuse and drug dependence represent different ends of the same disease process. Drug abuse is an intense desire to use increasing amounts of a particular substance or substances to the exclusion of other activities. Drug dependence is the body’s physical need, or addiction, to a specific agent. There is therefore virtually no difference between…