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Study finds roommates can help each other
August 26, 2008 ANN ARBOR, Mich., Aug 26, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) -- A University of Michigan study finds you really can work things out with your college dorm roommates if you try.
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Therapists find business booming
August 26, 2008 MINNEAPOLIS - Back in the early 1980s, Minneapolis psychologist Gary Schoener and colleagues wondered if the recession was affecting the mental health of people living in Hennepin County, Minn. "We were convinced there was a problem," said Schoener, then chairman of the Council on Mental Health Programs.
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Back-to-school need not be back-to-stress
August 25, 2008 TORONTO, Aug. 25, 2008 (Canada NewsWire via COMTEX) -- Desjardins Financial Security's National Health is Cool Survey shows
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Restraining of mentally ill foster kids questioned
August 25, 2008 Aug. 25--Last month, a 16-year-old Broward County girl was brought into Circuit Judge John A. Frusciante's courtroom for a hearing. She was handcuffed, her legs shackled with cloth restraints, with two armed deputies leading her by the arm.
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Children of mentally ill parents need support
August 24, 2008 Stuttgart (dpa) - The offspring of mentally ill parents are at a higher risk of becoming psychologically disturbed than their peers, according to mental health experts in Germany.
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Keeping mentally ill out of prison
August 24, 2008 Aug. 24--Eyes peered through the narrow window in the cell door.
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Reacting to an impulse buy with shame, guilt
August 24, 2008 By Patricia Kitchen
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Ideas about sex don't bar HPV vaccine use
August 24, 2008 HOUSTON -- Researchers have found that mothers' views about premarital sex don't affect their decisions on whether their pre-teen or teenage daughters should get the vaccine against the sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer.
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Genes may make some people more prone to anxiety
August 22, 2008 Inborn differences may help explain why trauma gives some people bad memories and others the nightmare of post-traumatic stress. Scientists in Germany and the United States have reported evidence linking genes to anxious behavior. The findings appear in the August issue of Behavioral Neuroscience, published by the American Psychological Association...
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Anorexia's destructive behavior
August 22, 2008 ST. LOUIS - Twenty years ago, when Cheryl Bergin was a teenager and in the throes of anorexia nervosa, she weighed a mere 54 pounds.
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Helping people with mental illness quit smoking
August 22, 2008 Aug. 22--BENNINGTON -- Most people suffering from mental illnesses smoke, and don't know many people who don't, Todd Hill, a licensed social worker and alcohol and drug counselor with the Vermont Department of Health, said while giving a presentation Wednesday at United Counseling Services.
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Brain structure examined in mood disorder research
August 21, 2008 Aug. 21--NEW HAVEN -- The size of a small part of the brain that apparently plays a big role in memory and mood disorders is influenced by variations in a blood-vessel gene, Yale researchers have found, suggesting new ways to understand and treat depression, bipolar disorder and other mental illnesses.
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School curriculum to add psychological counseling in quake-hit Sichuan Province
August 21, 2008 BEIJING, Aug 21, 2008 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- China's southwest quake-hit Sichuan Province is to add psychological counseling to the school curriculum to relieve possible post-quake mental stress of pupils.
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Georgia mental health system may cut back, privatize
August 21, 2008 Georgia may turn some of its troubled state psychiatric hospitals over to private operators as it prepares to make deep cuts in mental health spending.
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Web site educates about hiring war vets
August 20, 2008 WASHINGTON - They survived war, but for some Iraq and Afghanistan veterans going to work back home isn't easy, either.
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