Mental Health

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Panic Attacks in Children - Finding A Treatment

articlesbase.com 7 days ago

Like adults panic attacks in children occur as well. Unlike adults they have yet to develop the maturity required to even begin to cope with them. We know how disturbing these attacks can be to an adult. How much more frightening must ...

Mental Preparation in Sports Psychology

Inform 11 days ago

Athletes working to improve their performance often focus on their physical skills, developing and honing their response times and reaction impulses. However, sports psychology is just as important to understand many aspects of your performance. It studies the mental obstacles that stand ...

Gates: injured troops face too much bureaucracy

AP News 11 days ago

Gates says mental health ailments are 'widespread, entrenched and insidious' among troops Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Monday that troops injured in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan continue to face too many bureaucratic hurdles. Paperwork alone for them can be "frustrating, adversarial, ...

An Anxiety Attack Symptom May Last For Weeks

articlesbase.com 12 days ago

There are therapies available that help to control anxiety attack symptoms because a lot people suffer from stress as well as anxiety to some extent or the other and these are only natural defense mechanisms though sometimes get out of control. The ...

Thoughts of suicide long after childhood cancer

Reuters US Online Report Health News 14 days ago

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Adult survivors of childhood cancer, particularly those in poor physical health, are at increased risk for experiencing suicidal thoughts, new research shows. This study is "one more reminder that there are long term consequences of the treatment ...

Calif. pays billions in overtime to state workers

AP News 16 days ago

As payments for overtime soar, audit finds California state workers can earn $150,000 annually California auditors say some state employees earned more than $150,000 a year in overtime as the state paid out more than $2.1 billion in overtime during the past ...

Placement delays 9-year-old's homicide sentencing

AP Features 17 days ago

A 9-year-old Arizona boy who pleaded guilty in the killing of his father's roommate likely won't be sentenced Thursday because no state or county agency is willing to pay for the costly psychiatric treatment required under terms of a plea agreement, attorneys ...

Antidepressant improves recovery from spine injury

Reuters US Online Report Top News 19 days ago

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A common antidepressant combined with an intensive treadmill training program helped people with partial spinal cord injuries walk better and faster, U.S. researchers said on Sunday. They said Forest Laboratories' antidepressant Lexapro or escitalopram, which affects a message-carrying brain ...

Criminally insane, but out on the street

AP News 20 days ago

Despite being judged criminally insane, killer Phillip A. Paul spent years out on the streets Phillip A. Paul in 1987 was declared criminally insane for killing an elderly woman after voices in his head told him she was a witch. Instead of ...

Man charged with assaulting singer Leona Lewis

Reuters US Online Report Entertainment News 22 days ago

LONDON (Reuters) - A man has been charged with assault and detained for psychiatric assessment after an attack on British singer Leona Lewis in a London bookshop, police said on Thursday. Lewis, who won the British television talent show "The X Factor" ...

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