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All Bullies Are Narcissists
Stories of bullying and hazing in the news break down to narcissism and insecurity.
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Cricket, a Once-Genteel Sport, Reveals a Darker Side
Among the traditionalists in candy-striped blazers at the venerable Lords cricket ground in London, the sport is often viewed through the prism of ideals espoused by the upper-crust Victorians who set the game’s rules 150 years ago. Players were expected to behave at all times, win or lose, as gentlemen, and never allow their stiff-upper-lip resolve to falter.
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Teen suicide: Prevention is contagious, too.
Teen suicide in the US continues at high rates, but the stories of lives saved often don't make headlines – and prevention experts are encouraged about progress in that direction.
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Mentally Ill: Victims and not Killers
With yet another school shooting in Colorado, an important question remains unanswered: Will more spending on mental health treatment actually reduce violence?
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Tamerlan Tsarnaev Believed He Had Alternate Personality
Four takeaways from the Boston Globe's in-depth look at the brothers behind the Boston Marathon bombing.
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Electroshock Therapy Might Be Helpful In Erasing Painful Memories
A new study published in the journal Nature Neuroscience showed how it was possible to manipulate the memories through electricity just after they were recalled. Total of 42 severely depressed patients participated in the study who all agreed to undergo electroconvulsive therapy (ECT).
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Man accused of killing mom, stepfather escapes from facility
Authorities early Friday captured a man accused of killing his mother and stepfather who escaped from a South Carolina mental health facility. Jason Mark Carter, 39, was committed after he was found incompetent to stand trial in the killings eight years ago.
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Why I wish I had been diagnosed with Asperger’s as a child
If the Asperger Syndrome diagnosis had existed when I was a toddler, I probably would have qualified. I began reading at…
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For Ian’s sake — change
Police officers face stresses inherent to the job and need more helping dealing with them than they’re getting
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Socialising in pubs ‘boosts mens’ mental health’
MEN now have the perfect excuse to sneak off for a crafty pint with their mates – research has found that going down the pub can be good for their mental health.
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Why are lawyers killing themselves?
One by one, state by state, bar associations say the tally is rising -- lawyers are killing themselves.
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Prison: The New Mental Hospital
A California measure to reduce prison overcrowding reveals how America is, once again, failing some of its most vulnerable.
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Grieving mom is held against her will, but still billed
A mother who has been hospitalized against her will for five weeks following a murder-suicide involving her teenage son and her estranged husband says she and her insurance company are being billed for her unwanted treatment. "I am not ill; I am simply a mother who is grieving the tragic loss of her young son," Christina Schumacher told the Burlington Free Press this week. "No mother should ever have to experience this loss."
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Surviving Anxiety
I've tried therapy, drugs, and booze. Here’s how I came to terms with the nation's most common mental illness.
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The Decline of Play and Rise in Children's Mental Disorders
Rates of depression and anxiety among young people in America have been increasing steadily for the past fifty to seventy years. Today five to eight times as many high school and college students meet the criteria for diagnosis of major depression and/or an anxiety disorder as was true half a century or more ago. This increased psychopathology is not the result of changed diagnostic criteria; it holds even when the measures and criteria are constant.
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The Town That's Building Life Around Sleep
The way society is organized means that most of us don't sleep when our bodies naturally want to. A small town in Germany wants to change that.
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'A Pill for Every Ill'
If there were fewer possible psychiatric diagnoses, would fewer people consider themselves ill? A growing number of health experts suspect that psychiatric care is drifting toward "diagnostic inflation," in which the rate of mental disorders balloons as a result of new diagnoses - and not due to an increasingly troubled population. What's worse is that this process may be fueled by the very document that is supposed to control it.
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Extreme loneliness worse for health than obesity and can lead to an early grave, scientists say
Feeling extreme loneliness on a long-term basis can be worse than obesity in terms of increasing the potentially lethal health risks that lead to premature death, scientists said.
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The 9 Essential Habits Of Mentally Strong People
In 1914, Thomas Edison's lab burned down, and years' worth of his work was destroyed. This could easily be described as the worst thing to happen to Edison, but the inventor instead chose to see it as an energizing opportunity that forced him to rebu...
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Could ECT zap worst nightmares?
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), long associated in the popular imagination with controversial treatment of the mentally ill, can be used to erase memories, Dutch researchers have found - raising hopes of a new treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder.
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