Mental health care services around the country are being cut at a rapid pace thanks to the economic condition of the country. From California to Mississippi, from Massachusetts to Texas, mental health services are suffering from slashed state budgets. Even though the need for mental health services continues to rise, most states in the U.S….
Teens that live on the Internet are more likely to be severely depressed, according to a recent study. Teens that spend five or more hours per day on the Internet are classified as excessive Internet users, and as such, are 1.5 times more likely than other teens to develop depression. Lawrence Lam, a researcher from…
Dementia is something at least five million people in the United States are already suffering from, and that number is likely to escalate quickly as the population ages. However, a new study has shown that regular physical exercise may help prevent dementia from taking hold. Regular workouts throughout midlife have far-reaching benefits: the exercise reduces…
Parents with delusional and other personality disorders are incredibly difficult to live with. Parenting advice and magazines abound but there is a dearth of information available for children with challenging parents. What are some of the circumstances and challenges that children with trying parents encounter? Society teaches that parents are at the head of the…
Project 50, a service program launched by the L.A.’s county supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky, was an initiative to find and house 50 of skid row’s worst homeless cases. The motive of “housing first” aimed to find housing for vagrants of the 50 square foot block along L.A.’s notorious skid row. Candidates for Project 50 weren’t mandated…
I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines. ~Henry David Thoreau Thoreau may have had it right all along: getting back to nature, in forests and other green settings, is good for your mental…
Happily married women are better able to control their stress than women whose marriages are unhappy. UCLA researchers, led by Darby E. Saxbe, a graduate student in clinical psychology, tracked levels of cortisol, a stress hormone, in 30 married women who work and have kids. “At least as far as women are concerned, being happily…
Ecstasy may no longer be just a drug for teenage rave parties. A new study – the first double blind study of its kind – has demonstrated that the drug, common among teens and young adults who go “clubbing” or attend rave parties, may be beneficial for those suffering from post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)….
College is a transitional period of life that promises enormous growth and with it, overwhelming amounts of change. For the first time in their lives, many young people find themselves completely or semi self-sufficient. Teen movies and melodrama miniseries on television depict college as a never ending party scene. Like me, many young people entering…
BP has been the cause of incredible levels of stress and anxiety since the explosion of the DeepWater Horizon rig nearly 100 days ago, and while the company has stepped in to cover the costs of cleanup and provide some financial support to those who have lost their livelihoods, their recent refusal to assist with…