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Psychological problems are rampant, leaders admit. The Iraq and Afghanistan wars have been long, and repeat deployments are highly stressful. Doctors, too, fall prey to mental illness. The U.S. military's culture of silence about troops' mental health had finally begun to change.
OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Nov. 9, 2009) - The Canada Post Foundation for Mental Health is closing in on its fundraising target for this year and is urging Canadians everywhere to help make its drive toward the 2009 goal of $1.5 million a success. "Canada Post is getting closer to its target every day and, with a few weeks to go, I'm asking everyone who has yet to participate to make the ...
Judge Juneal C. Kerrick will allow the public defender for Sheryl Lynn Sasenbery to get a mental health evaluation for Sasenbery. Sasenbery is charged with stabbing her Caldwell roommate to death in June. The request will allow a doctor to assist the defense, Canyon County deputy prosecutor David Christensen said. "This is more of a request to pay for an expert witness," Christensen said.
A Veterans Day ceremony will take place on Wednesday at the Korean War Memorial at Penns Landing focusing on the mental health of soldiers once they come back home.
Jason Rodriguez, who is accused of shooting six people, one fatally, in Orlando on Friday, “has been declining in mental health,” his lawyer said.
Complaints, suits follow psychiatrist to thousands with serious mental illness Tribune Watchdog: One of the most prolific providers of psychiatric care in Chicago-area nursing homes and mental health facilities is trailed by lawsuits and complaints.
STERLING — According to Lew Whittiemore, Logan, Phillips and Sedgwick County regional operations director for Centennial Mental Health, approximately one in five people in the U.S. suffer from a mental illness during their lifetime.
Students in Warren County School District may soon have greater access to mental health professionals, thanks to participation in a pilot program. Members of the school board's Curriculum, Instruction and Technology Committee supported a proposal for the program at a recent meeting.
By JENNIFER FEEHAN BLADE STAFF WRITER When she heard the news that a young man with bipolar disorder had attacked his mother and then turned his rage on Toledo police, Tracey Duty was shocked that officers shot him to death and upset that individuals struggling with mental illness again would be stereotyped unfairly. The Oct. 29 incident in North Toledo was the second time this year that police ...
The Gathering Place and NAMI Athens are hosting the 10th annual Walk the Walk for Mental Health Awareness and Support this Saturday. The walk will help fund the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) and The Gathering Place while raising awareness about mental illness. Ohio Sen. Jimmy Stewart, state Rep. Debbie Phillips and Athens Mayor Paul Wiehl will speak at the event. The walk will begin ...
LORAIN — The Nord Center is getting more than a quarter of a million dollars in federal stimulus funding. The mental health services organization was awarded $264,182.24 in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds by the Ohio Rehabilitation Services Commission. The funds are to assist with severe mental illness in Lorain, Huron, Erie and Sandusky counties with [...]
The year 2009 will certainly be remembered for a variety of reasons, but for those of us who are part of the mental health, developmental disability and substance abuse community our memories will focus on the impact that the global financial crisis had upon our system.
Maxine Trent has been in overdrive the past few days as she and her staff have offered mental-health services to military personnel and others shaken by Thursday’s massacre at Fort Hood.
When Karen Hankins talks about her ex-husband's struggle with mental illness, one thing is clear: She loved him deeply, even as she fired the shot that killed him.“I just realize the man who broke into my window was not Shane. It was the illness, and the man that I loved and who battled those demons is now at peace,” she said Saturday, sitting in the sunporch of her mother's Redmond-area home.
When Eastern State Hospital opens its new adult mental health treatment center next summer, at least 150 patients will be housed in the state-of-the-art facility.
A judge has ordered a mental health evaluation for a man accused of intentionally driving his pickup truck into a pair of Idaho State Police motorcycle troopers parked along an interstate median.
