Oct 22, 2012 | Mental Health
Science News Cyberbullying Only Rarely the Sole Factor Identified in Teen Suicides ScienceDaily (Oct. 20, 2012) Cyberbullying — the use of the Internet, phones or other technologies to repeatedly harass or mistreat peers — is often linked with teen...
Oct 19, 2012 | Mental Health
Suicide is the second leading cause of death for young people between the ages of 10-19. The authors of the report on mental illness, Opening Eyes, Opening Minds, led by Sujitha Ratnasingham, from the Institute for Clinical and Evaluative Sciences and Public...
Oct 10, 2012 | Mental Health
The burden of mental illness and addictions in our society is said to be more than 1.5 times that of all cancers. This comes from the report Opening Eyes, Opening Minds. Diagnosing early can prevent many of these burdens as mental illness tends to manifest...
Oct 10, 2012 | Mental Health
J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter stories, has written a novel for adults called the Casual Vacancy. In it she writes about OCD-Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, from personal experience. The Royal College of Psychiatrists says that one person in every fifty will...
Oct 10, 2012 | Mental Health
Pregnant women have worried about taking their antidepressants during pregnancy. There is an article in the Glob and Mail, Oct.10, 2012, that speaks to these concerns. The National Post reports October 31, 2012 about a mother who killed her two infant children. It...
Oct 2, 2012 | Mental Health
Another young man has been sentenced to jail for sexually torturing a randomly selected family. He has a history of mental illness. His illness led to a psychiatric evaluation a month before the attack.He told the doctors that he had carefully planned an attack on a...
