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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.
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.
Several of the soldiers who were killed during a shooting rampage at Ft. Hood were psychiatrists assigned to help troops deal with the mental affects of war. Don Teague reports.
By Lydia Seabol Avant Staff Writer Another trustee on the board of the Alabama Department of Mental Health has resigned, the second resignation from the 16-member board in the past nine days. Luther Strange, who is running for Alabama attorney general, sent his resignation to Gov. Bob Riley on Friday.
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Associated Press - November 10, 2009 8:14 AM ET JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - A man charged in a chainsaw attack at a homeless shelter in New Bloomfield has been committed to the custody of the...
People might go on rampages for reasons other than mental illness, experts say. “People can be very angry, for example, and do bad things,“ said Dr. Joel J. Silverman, chairman of the psychiatry department at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine. “Don’t assume this is mental illness.“ Police say Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, opened fire at the Fort Hood Army ...
Politicians, nonprofits, and government agencies all rally to cause of troubled vets and stressed families.
The woman wasn't budging. It was late on a Friday afternoon last month, and there she was, 64 years old, mentally ill and refusing to return to her Southeast Washington nursing home.
The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) has announced an ongoing mental health support group available in Lehigh Acres. The nationally acclaimed program "NAMI Connections" is held in Lehigh at the Lehigh United Way House.
A Prince William County judge ordered a mental health evaluation Thursday for a woman who left her adopted 13-year-old daughter for dead in a frigid creek, prosecutors said.
