Depression Counselling and Therapy News

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An invention to dye for: the colour purple (Independent)

Shug Avery, the rebellious singer who first befriends and then beds the timid heroine of Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Color Purple, knew a thing or two about getting noticed - it was the first stage towards getting what she wanted. She recognised the phenomenon in the natural world too. "I think it pisses God off if you walk by the colour purple in a field somewhere and don't

An invention to dye for: the colour purple (Independent)

Shug Avery, the rebellious singer who first befriends and then beds the timid heroine of Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Color Purple, knew a thing or two about getting noticed - it was the first stage towards getting what she wanted. She recognised the phenomenon in the natural world too. "I think it pisses God off if you walk by the colour purple in a field somewhere and don't

Chronic exposure to stress hormone causes anxious behavior in mice ...

EurekAlert - Washington -- Neuroscientists at Harvard Medical School and its affiliate Mclean Hospital have shown that long-term exposure to stress hormone in mice directly results in the anxiety that often comes with depression. After years of circumstantial ...

Overwintering in Antarctica: Winter's pull is strong for many

SpaceRef - "The curtain of blackness which has fallen over the outer world of icy desolation has descended upon the inner world of our souls. Around the tables, in the laboratory, and in the forecastle, men are sitting about sad and dejected, lost in dreams of ...

Website to help ease depression (BBC News)

A campaign is launched in Scotland to coincide with the start of National Depression Week.

Mental illness intelligence link (Evening Standard)

Intelligent people are at less risk of suffering severe mental illness, according to a new study by psychiatrists. A high IQ can lessen the severity of disorders such as depression and schizophrenia, say researchers from Cambridge University.

Mental illness intelligence link (PA via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)

Intelligent people are at less risk of suffering severe mental illness, according to a new study by psychiatrists.

James Meek on Britian's status as a haven for the ultra-rich (Guardian Unlimited)

James Meek on how Britain became a magnet for the world's super-rich.

An invention to dye for: the colour purple (Independent)

Shug Avery, the rebellious singer who first befriends and then beds the timid heroine of Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Color Purple, knew a thing or two about getting noticed - it was the first stage towards getting what she wanted. She recognised the phenomenon in the natural world too. "I think it pisses God off if you walk by the colour purple in a field somewhere and don't

Okla. Suspect Wrote of 'Weird' Fantasies

WINK TV - PURCELL, Okla. The man accused of killing a 10-year-old neighbor girl for an elaborate plan to eat human flesh joked about cannibalism on his online diary, discussed the effects of not taking his anti-depression medication and mentioned "dangerously ...

Okla. Suspect Joked About Cannibalism

ABC News - "I would like to be able to tell her family how sorry we are. I just feel so terrible." On his blog, an online diary that he had kept since September 2002, Underwood described himself as "single, bored, and lonely, but other than that, pretty happy ...

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

CNN - PURCELL, Oklahoma (AP) -- The man accused of killing a 10-year-old neighbor girl for an elaborate plan to eat human flesh joked about cannibalism on his online diary, discussed the effects of not taking his anti-depression medication and mentioned ...

Okla. Slay Suspect Joked of Cannibalism

WINK TV - PURCELL, Okla. The man accused of killing a 10-year-old neighbor girl for an elaborate plan to eat human flesh joked about cannibalism on his online diary, discussed the effects of not taking his anti-depression medication and mentioned "dangerously ...

Okla. Suspect Joked About Cannibalism

WINK TV - PURCELL, Okla. The man accused of killing a 10-year-old neighbor girl for an elaborate plan to eat human flesh joked about cannibalism on his online diary, discussed the effects of not taking his anti-depression medication and mentioned "dangerously ...

Living Well: Retelling story of son's suicide brings healing

Seattle Post Intelligencer - For two years after his 16-year-old son Trevor committed suicide, Scott Simpson's stomach churned and flipped and ached. He called his stomach "totaled." For six months, Simpson woke up wondering, "Will I make it through today?" "The next question I ...

Older, Wiser, Fitter

Boston Globe - WORKOUT REGIMEN: Before work, walks if the weather is nice or goes to the gym to do 20 minutes of cardio exercise on the elliptical trainer, treadmill, or stationary bike, then works different muscle groups with machines and free weights. A longtime ...

'I love you all but I have to go' (Sunday Life)

BATTLING depression and bearing the mental scars of 26 years of violent physical abuse, Tilly Perry could no longer cope. In a poignant farewell to her family, she sent a simple text message: "I love you all, but I have to go."

In gambling boom, addicts left to chance

Sacramento Bee - Get weekday updates of Sacramento Bee headlines and breaking news. Sign up here. RENO - It's easy to lose money here. Blinking casinos beckon along Virginia Street. Flashing lights of card rooms call from almost every corner. You can't go to a gas ...

'I love you all but I have to go' (Sunday Life)

BATTLING depression and bearing the mental scars of 26 years of violent physical abuse, Tilly Perry could no longer cope. In a poignant farewell to her family, she sent a simple text message: "I love you all, but I have to go."

Musical Healing

CBS News - "I try to keep in here and now, keep the child in here and now and be there for the family, musically and emotionally." (CBS) Glenn Schifano is a music therapist - one of five thousand in the United States. He "performs" at Schneider Children's ...

HAS MY HUSBAND BOOZE ON THE BRAIN? (Sunday Mail)

Q MY husband is a drinker and his friend thinks he is developing "wet brain." Can , you explain what this is? A WET brain is a non-medical term to describe any form of alcohol-related brain damage.

Storm survivors strain to find normal life

Northwest Arkansas News - Many of those left homeless by Katrina have moved on. They’ve settled into new homes in new cities, where they work at new jobs and send their children off each morning to new schools. Others, however, continue to live in limbo. Theirs is a day ...

Valley Primary Care Network to receive $1.3M grant

McAllen Monitor - SAN JUAN — Many patients at Nuestra Clinica del Valle have diabetes, hypertension and high cholesterol levels and are depressed about their conditions — but little can be done to help them. “We really don’t have a lot of funding for mental ...

THE PRICE OF FAILURE: The Advocate

News-Virginian - STAUNTON--Lyn McDonald Hall is a reluctant crusader. She craves the normalcy that might bore others. Bipolar disorder -- also called manic depression -- does that to a person. She is fiercely private and is content to just walk her yellow Labrador ...

At-risk Drinking Linked With Higher Death Rates (Medical News Today)

Older men who drink as few as two drinks twice a week and also have diseases that could be worsened by alcohol or cause problems with medications taken while drinking alcohol have higher death rates, as compared to men who either drink less or may drink more but don't have such comorbidities. Examining data from a 1971-74 health survey and a follow-up survey in 1992, the researchers found that

Implant easing severe depression

Arizona Daily Star - Tucson patients who have battled severe depression for years now are turning to a pacemakerlike device to ease their prolonged and often disabling symptoms. First tested in trials at University Medical Center, the device is implanted under the skin ...

Seniors find therapy while playing music

Parkersburg News & Sentinel - PARKERSBURG — A tune a day might help keep the doctor away. Local senior citizens say playing a musical instrument can help make stiff joints more limber, relieve boredom or depression and more. For those who have never plucked a string or tickled ...

PERSONNEL FILE

Biloxi Sun Herald - Hancock Bank's board of directors recently approved new assistant vice presidents: Priscilla Carbo, financial services associate at the Bay St. Louis U.S. 90 branch, has been a Hancock Bank employee for 16 years. Jamie Carver, branch operations ...

Dealing with Inter Seasonal Stress Syndrome

Coeur d'Alene Press - If you happen to notice a peculiar depression sweeping through the Inland Northwest at this time of year - restlessness, irritability, and a general lack of focus - you're noticing the latest American psychological problem. You see, with the snow ...

Chicago-area hospital helps newest vets cope

Rockford Register-Star - HINES — Josh Dobbelstein drives as close to the middle of the road as he can. Over on the side, in a plastic bag or stuffed in the carcass of a dead dog, that’s where he knows the enemy intent on killing him hides bombs. Just the other day, he ...

Solving the mystery of fibromyalgia

Southern Illinoisan - You go to the doctor complaining of throbbing, burning muscle pain throughout your body, overwhelming fatigue, and anxiety that makes it extremely difficult to do even the everyday things like housecleaning, playing with the kids and exercising ...

Eye cells that don't see, but regulate

Philadelphia Inquirer - As any good high school biology student can tell you, the human eye sees light with special cells called rods and cones. But when George C. Brainard experimented with shining various colors of light into people's eyes, something odd happened: A ...

Tour de Georgia: Young rider returns from horrific crash

Macon Telegraph - Professional cyclist Craig Lewis was having a ground-breaking day during the fourth stage of the 2004 Tour de Georgia. The then-19-year-old was on time to finish in the top 10 for that moutainous stage in his first major professional race. With his ...

Drugs crisis: Prozac nation

Lucianne.com - Britain is in the grip of a damaging dependence on anti-depressant drugs such as Prozac, prompting calls from mental health experts for a radical rethink in the treatment of the 3.5 million people affected. The prescription of so-called "happy pills ...

Depressed? 'We never say no' Insists mentally ill have same rights

WorldNetDaily - Ludwig Minelli, a Swiss lawyer, told the London Sunday Times he has already opened an associated Dignitas office in Germany and he intends to lift the "taboo" against suicide by lobbying other countries to set up clinics to offer information on ...

The Price Of Failure: A Special Report

News-Virginian - A mental-health advocate warned officials with Augusta Medical Center in late 2003 that it was releasing psychiatric patients too soon and not properly medicating them. “It is just a matter of time before you kill someone,” Lyn McDonald Hall ...

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North County Times - ESCONDIDO ---- Free health care and some extra cash persuaded asthma sufferer Teresa Lloyd to sign up for a clinical trial in 1991. Since then, the 35-year-old Escondido resident has become a clinical trial regular, testing numerous asthma and ...

Older, Wiser, Fitter

Boston Globe - WORKOUT REGIMEN: Before work, walks if the weather is nice or goes to the gym to do 20 minutes of cardio exercise on the elliptical trainer, treadmill, or stationary bike, then works different muscle groups with machines and free weights. A longtime ...

North County Community News: Class for working moms offered

North County Times - ENCINITAS ---- San Dieguito Adult School will offer a class for working moms called "Jobs and Moms: Finding New Ways to Blend Careers and Family" from 6 to 9 p.m. April 25 and May 9 at Sunset School, 684 Requeza Drive. Gain a clear understanding of ...

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