Suicide is one of the most misunderstood and stigmatized of human experiences. We need a call to arms, not in the sense of weapons, but rather with people working together. Most suicides result from a combination of two things:...
Share Tweet Share Share Email Everything about Social Media Addiction Pakyong, 2 Feb: Over the past ten years, checking and browsing through social media has grown in popularity. Despite the fact that the majority of people’s use of...
PETALING JAYA: About four out of every 100, or some 1.28 million Malaysians, are suffering from schizophrenia, and this does not account for those who have yet to be diagnosed, said psychiatrist Dr Chow Soon Ken. Chow, who is...
more common in females? Experts do not fully understand what causes IBS, so they do not yet know why it is more common in females. That said, there are several theories. Sex differences in IBS may occur due to...
I was 17 when I lay on the operating table, wincing in pain as the anesthesia needle pierced the taut skin on the back of my hand. It was 2007, and the obesity epidemic was omnipresent, marking me a...
Santa Clara County is dealing with unaffordable housing, inaccessible child care, homelessness and a mental health crisis. One leader wants to build coalitions to solve the region’s most pressing problems. Supervisor Susan Ellenberg touted her agenda of “building together”...
This story was originally published in Group Therapy, a weekly newsletter answering questions sent in by readers about what’s been weighing on their hearts and minds. Sign up here to get it in your inbox.Over the last decade, and...
This post is a review of Zig-Zag Boy: A Memory of Madness and Motherhood. By Tanya Frank. W.W. Norton & Company. 224 pp. $28.95. Late one night, in the fall of 2009, Tanya Frank found Zach, her 19-year-old son,...
GREENVILLE, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - Violent videos and mental health. Memphis Police Department body cam footage related to the death of Tyre Nichols has sparked a conversation. It’s hard to avoid those images and research shows the exposure and...
A Massachusetts woman accused of killing her three children has put a spotlight on a rare condition that mental health advocates say is shrouded in shame, often preventing mothers from seeking treatment.Postpartum psychosis is an illness in which hallucinations...
