Mental health

Don't Confuse Mental Health With Addictions

Don't Confuse Mental Health With Addictions
No one makes a decision to suddenly develop psychotic delusions or the mania of bipolar disorder or the crushing darkness of depression. These are illnesses that just happen as do other illnesses like MS… Continue reading

Help for My Son With Speech Apraxia and Sensory Processing Disorder?

Question by Shadowbox: Help for my son with speech apraxia and sensory processing disorder?
I have a son who just turned 3. He does not talk or use sign language. He has been diagnosed with speech apraxia and sensory processing… Continue reading

Mental Health Hospitalizations Spike for California's Youngest Residents

Mental health hospitalizations spike for California's youngest residents
After moving to California four years ago, he initially was impressed with the kinds of services he could find for his patients: intensive home-based therapeutic services in many cases, residential treatment when… Continue reading

Teen Girls With Mental Health Issues Have Higher Risk of Pregnancy: Study

Teen girls with mental health issues have higher risk of pregnancy: study
The study found pregnancy rates among girls with bipolar disorder, schizophrenia or major depression were not only three times higher, but they also have been declining at a… Continue reading

Chiara De Blasio Tells All. Should Your Teen?

Chiara de Blasio tells all. Should your teen?
What of other young people so inspired to publicly disclose their depression, drinking and drugging, eating disorders or struggles against suicidal thoughts? "I think in general that it's healing for people to… Continue reading

My New Daughter-in-Law Has Either Bi-Polar Disorder or Manic Depression. What Are the Best Ways to Diagnose?

Question by kentonskitty: My new daughter-in-law has either bi-polar disorder or manic depression. What are the best ways to diagnose?
I am about out of my mind. When she first moved in she was supposedly afraid of my son’s aggressions,… Continue reading

What Causes Postpartum Depression?

Question by Shayla: What causes postpartum depression?
wouldn’t mothers be happy they aren’t pregnant any more, happy to meet their baby, and take care of their baby, and just happy in general? that would be my prediction so I’m confused… Continue reading

Heroin Addicts Who Want Help Likely to Be Denied by Insurers

Heroin addicts who want help likely to be denied by insurers
“A lot of these heroin users now have families, and the insurers aren't looking at them the same way as someone who's homeless or living in a drug house,”… Continue reading

Im14 and Depression Ruined My Life:/.details Inside Please Help:(?

Question by J?: im14 and depression ruined my life:/.details inside please help:(?
well what hapened, i had depression after my grandad died earlier last year in march, and it was the second time i had depression, and it was alot… Continue reading

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Our Social Networks
Kimberly A. Schappell, 38, was sentenced to 72 hours to six months in prison by Judge James P. Goodman, who granted her immediate parole because she already had spent a week in an inpatient rehabilitation facility. "It's… Continue reading