‘Almost Alcoholic’: Close to the Real Thing, Says New Book
Stockbyte/Thinkstock(BOSTON) — Many people live with physical conditions such as prehypertension or prediabetes that are not quite full-blown illnesses, and a new series of books argues that the same is true of mental health conditions.Millions of peo…
Psych Patient Charged with Murder After Roommate Dies
Comstock/Thinkstock(SAN DIEGO) — Charges against a psychiatric patient who allegedly stabbed his hospital roommate have been upgraded to murder after the victim died of his injuries.Robert King, 53, died Saturday, a week after he was found bloody at t…
How to Memorize a Deck of Cards … and Other Brain-Training Tricks
Digital Vision/ThinkstockBy ABC News’ Bill Weir(NEW YORK) — They say dogs have a short-term memory of about 20 seconds. Honestly? Mine is worse.Beyond the missing keys and repeated calls to directory assistance, that fact became even more evident when…
Denver Woman Accused of Faking PTSD to Dodge Jury Duty
KMGB/ABC News(DENVER) — A Denver woman is facing felony charges for allegedly faking post-traumatic stress disorder to dodge jury duty.Susan Cole, 57, arrived for jury selection in June looking purposefully disheveled, wearing curlers in her hair and …
New Mom Charlize Theron Is Example of Parenting with OCD
Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic(NEW YORK) — New mother Charlize Theron may have a tougher time than other new moms adjusting to her first child. That’s because she’s admitted to suffering from obsessive compulsive disorder, or OCD.”I have OCD, which is not fun…
‘Thinspiration’ Boards on Pinterest Encourage Eating Disorders
Hemera/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Pictures of jutting bones, concave stomachs and toothpick thighs are sprinkled throughout a handful of boards on the visually-driven social networking site Pinterest, providing “thinspiration” for men and wome…
Online Grieving: Support a Keyboard Away
Zach Whiteman via Reddit(KOKOMO, Ind.) — On March 8, a young man marking a painful anniversary went to Reddit.com and posted three short sentences and a photograph depicting a heartbreaking story of young love nipped in the bud by cancer.”A year ago t…
Ashley Judd Keeps a ‘Psychological Support’ Dog to Help Deal With Her Depression
Mike Coppola/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Ashley Judd, who has re-emerged in a new role with a television series on ABC called Missing, opened up about dealing with her depression, her registered “psychological support” dog named Shug at her s…
Likelihood for Mental Health Problems Greater in Deaf People
Jupiterimages/Thinkstock(LINZ, Austria) — Seven per 10,000 people all over the world are severely deaf, according to The Lancet. Of students who suffer from hearing impairment, 25 percent have other disabilities such as learning or developmental issue…
Laughter Yoga: Smiling for Better Health?
Goodshoot/Thinkstock(SAN ANTONIO) — Laughter yoga instructor Dawn Thurmond in Texas says laughter yoga techniques reduce stress and counteract depression. Watch Here:
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Survey Reveals Most Optimistic US Metro Areas
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — When it comes to the 190 metro areas in the U.S., do you know whose residents are the most optimistic about where they live?If you picked Provo-Orem, Utah, you’d be correct. It ranked No. 1 with 76 percent of i…
Mental Health ‘Bible’ Criticized for Financial Conflicts of Interest
Stockbyte/Thinkstock(BOSTON) — Controversy continues to swell around the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, better known as DSM-5. A new study suggests the 900-page bible of mental health, scheduled for publica…
Could US Soldier’s Afghan Killing Spree Have Been Prevented?
ABC News(NEW YORK) — Whether it was a psychotic break or an underlying mental illness that led a United States Army soldier to allegedly massacre 16 Afghan civilians — including women and children — is still unclear.But as military investigators rep…
Nearly Half of Children of Hoarders Fight Guilt, Depression
Little sad girl (iStockphoto/Thinkstock)(NEW YORK) — Life as a teenager is often chaotic and confusing. When the home — usually the most controllable, supportive place in teens’ lives — is bursting with piles of clutter, it can get…
Bullied Teen Hangs Self After Writing She Loves ‘All My Haterz’
File photo. Hemera/Thinkstock(VANCOUVER, Wash.) — A 14-year-old girl whose Facebook page says she loves “all my haterz” has committed suicide after enduring two years of bullying by her female classmates, her family claims.Eden Wormer, an eighth grad…
You Are What You Type, or Something Like That
Hemera/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Most of us have become so adept at using keyboards that we rarely stop to think about whether we type more words on the left side of the QWERTY keyboard or the right.Well, researchers from the University College London an…
Army Suicide Rates Soar Since Start of Iraq War, Study Finds
Spencer Platt/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Since the start of the Iraq War in 2003, the rate of suicide among U.S. Army soldiers has soared, according to a new study from the U.S. Army Public Health Command.The study, an analysis of data from the Army B…
Examining Brain’s Joy May Produce More Effective Anti-Depressants
Comstock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Suppose you could actually feel what it’s like to be another animal—not just guess, after observing its actions and behavior from the outside, but actually break through the prison of subjectivity and know y…
We All Scream for Ice Cream, But Can We Become Addicted?
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(EUGENE, Wash.) — There are people who say that for them, food is like a drug, and a new study suggests that high-calorie foods like ice cream can affect the brain in some of the ways drugs do.Researchers Kyle Burger and Eric Sti…
Drugs Raise Death Risk in Dementia Patients
Keith Brofsky/Thinkstock(BOSTON) — Elderly nursing home residents who take certain antipsychotic drugs for dementia have an increased risk of death, a new study found.The study of more than 75,000 nursing home residents with dementia, all of whom were…