When Maggie Walker heard the news recently that a man had hung himself in a local park, she felt sick with worry. She wondered if it was someone she knew. One week earlier, Walker and her fellow casew... [Read More]
This year, the reality that brings the biggest smile to my face, is this: this will be the first birthday in four years since an eating disorder behavior was not, in some way, stealing joy from my lif... [Read More]
(KIVI Boise) Spring break is drawing near, and the pressure on. Trying to get thin fast? Get the real skinny from students who've suffered and recovered from serious eating disorders.... [Read More]
(KMIR 6 Palm Springs) Especially for college students, there's a not-so-fine line between being image-conscious and size-obsessed. If you think you or a friend might be straddling it, read on.... [Read More]
(Los Angeles Times) The proposed addition to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders involves several key symptoms. About hypersexual disorder... [Read More]
(EurekAlert!) ( Centre for Addiction and Mental Health ) The next advance in treating major depression may relate to a group of brain chemicals that are involved in virtually all our brain activity, according to a ... [Read More]
(MSNBC) Patients often vow to change their ways, eat better and exercise more after a wake-up call such as a dangerously high blood pressure reading, but what's the true shelf-life of a health scare? Not as l... [Read More]
(EurekAlert!) ( Elsevier ) In a new issue of Biological Psychiatry, published by Elsevier, researchers from the National Institutes of Health report that another medication, scopolamine, also appears to produce rep... [Read More]
(Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) Prescription medicines, like the two pills that killed Madison Kiefer one year ago Monday, are involved in 70% of the overdose deaths in Milwaukee, Waukesha, Ozaukee and Washington counties, a Journal... [Read More]
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