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By Gina Morgano Aug 19, 2009 via Medill Reports Victoria Maxwell had delusions of meeting with God. But to Maxwell, 42, from Vancouver, British Columbia, it all seemed perfectly real. So one day she walked out of her house, ripped off her dress and ran...
Filed under: Art therapy, counseling, depression, Mental illness, disability arts festival, Vaslav Nijinsky, Brooke Shields, Medill Reports, Sylvia Plath, Northwestern University, healing power of art, Kay Redfield Jamison, " potential links between creativity and mental illness, music therapy, Vincent van Gogh, creativity, mania, going against the norms, "Touched with Fire, mood disorders, Crazy for Life Co, psychiatric services, Victoria Maxwell, Robert Schumann, Virginia Woolf, Edgar Allan Poe, Linda Hamilton
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via Reading Eagle By Bruce R. Posten Dr. Francis Salerno, 62, considers himself to be an older doctor who has had a few patients in recent years tell him, "I'd like to see a younger doctor." When he was younger, though, at times he had patients...
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Critics of PTSD diagnostic criteria, including many soldiers, feel that returning veterans' natural process of adjustment is often mislabeled as a dysfunctional state. Soldiers' Stress: What Doctors Get Wrong about PTSD via vawatchdog.org A growing...
Filed under: anxiety, PTSD, depression, American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Critics of PTSD diagnostic criteria, quest to scale back the definition of PTSD, misdiagnosed soldiers receive the wrong treatments, defining criteria too broad, mired in VA system that encourages chronic disability, 1990 National Vietnam Veterans Readjustment Survey, academic debate, rampant overdiagnosis, DSM-III, TBI from bomb blasts produces symptoms almost indistinguishable from PTSD, social and reintegration problems, CBT for depression very different, overdiagnosis of PTSD, effectiveness of treatment and disability infrastructure, natural process of adjustment mislabeled as dysfunctional state, mental health and future lives of hundreds of thousands of U.S. combat veterans, post-traumatic stress disorder, expenditure of billions of dollars, diagnostic framework of psychiatry, NVVRS, DSM-IV, exposure-based cognitive-behavioral therapy effective treatment for PTSD
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via The Hoya , Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA By Jessica Schieder Feb 02 2009 Cpl. Michael L. Jernigan (Ret.) is one of over 23 million veterans living in the United States, according to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. In 2004, Jernigan...
Filed under: Inc., drug addiction, fund-raising, wounded, roadside bomb, massage, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Department of Veterans' Affairs, "Alive Day, "Homefires, one-on-one and group therapy, anxiety, writing helps, recovery process, Iraq, trouble sleeping, acupuncture, Southeastern Guide Dogs, TBI, yoga, alcohol abuse, " HBO documentary, lack of empathy, reintegration, PTSD, adjustment, verbal abuse, blinded, veteran, find employment, traumatic brain injury, aggression, depression, talking to other vets, friends and family, Georgetown University, New York Times, " blog
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