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This Week - October 16, 2006

1. Predicting which antidepressant works best for you
2. Depression after heart attack isn't normal
3. Talking about the good things in life
4. Years of bipolar depression take toll on couple
5. Auto exec's suicide inspires bipolar research
6. Psychiatrist promotes drug-free treatment for anxiety
7. Anxiety disorders more common in women
8. Stress reducing techniques
9. Misdiagnosing anxiety as narcissism
10. For some ADHD kids, is parenting the problem
11. ADHD and co-existing disorders
12. AUDIO: Experiment in luxury psychiatric care helps teen
13. Half of alcoholics - addicts mentally ill
14. Young witnesses of domestic violence suffer too
15. Mental health treatment by video growing
16. Eating disorders hit older women
17. Eating disorders and self-harm link to help prevention
18. Anti-psychotics fail Alzheimer's
19. Experts want to rename schizophrenia
20. Latest Schizophrenia News
21. Forums: "Thinking about the past is driving me insane"
22. Thought for today

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Which Antidepressant Works Best?

It's the million dollar question. Now a new version of an EEG, a test that measures brain wave activity, may be able to tell you which depression medication works best for you. Find out more.

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Depression Following Heart Attack Isn't Normal

Some believe that it's routine to suffer depression following a heart attack. That isn't true.  And a new study reveals that heart attack patients who do have depression are worse off than those who don't. Details.

Therapy: Talking About The Good Things in Life

She talked to a therapist about the issues that were bothering her. She tried antidepressants.  Then Ms. Smith met a new therapist and spent much of her time discussing the positive things in her life.  What a change that made!

Years of Bipolar Depression Take Toll on Couple

"He's been to hell and back with me," Jene Horne says of her husband, Chris, and her long battle with bipolar depression. Read their story.

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Auto Pioneer's Suicide Inspires Research On Bipolar Disorder

Five years ago, one of the auto industry's leading executives killed himself. Heinz Prechtor had bipolar disorder and committed suicide during a depressed phase.  Now his family is funding important research into the genetics of bipolar disorder and its transmission amongst family members.

Renowned Psychiatrist Promotes Drug-free Treatment For Anxiety

Psychiatrist Dr. David Burns, Stanford professor and bestselling author of Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy, tries 50 techniques he’s developed to conquer anxiety until one works to provide a breakthrough for a particular patient.

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Anxiety Disorders More Common Among Women than Men

Many types of anxiety disorders and phobias are more common in women than in men, says report Coping with Anxiety and Phobias.

More Anxiety Stories

• Feeling Stressed? Techniques That Work
• It's Not Narcissism.  It's an Anxiety Disorder

For Some ADHD Kids, Is Parenting the Problem?

A long-time child psychiatrist speaks out:  "Psychiatrists now misdiagnose and overmedicate children for ordinary defiance and misbehavior. Temper tantrums are increasingly being characterized as psychiatric illnesses."  More on her point of view here.

ADD And Coexisting Conditions

Some of these conditions have symptoms that are similar to ADHD which can lead to a misdiagnosis.  On the other hand, ADHD plus another severe psychiatric illness can result in suicidal feelings and difficulty finding the right treatment. Why is it so complicated?

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Half of Alcoholics, Drug Addicts Mentally Ill

Half of all alcoholics and drug addicts are suffering from mental health problems, including depression, and are self-medicating to mask the symptoms.

Turning Point, a social care charity in the UK, is warning that people are failing to get proper treatment because they are not being correctly diagnosed. It believes that mental health problems are being exacerbated by drug and alcohol misuse.

Young Witnesses of Domestic Violence Battle Mental Health Disorders

Over 3.3 million children live with domestic violence and are at a high risk of developing a mental illness when exposed to traumatizing events, neglect, abuse or the loss of one or both parents. continue

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Mental Health Treatment By Video Growing...

...especially in rural areas where treatment providers are in short supply.  For many, tele-therapy seems to be working well.

Eating Disorders Hitting Older Women

Bulimia and the self-starvation called anorexia predominantly affect women in their teens or 20s. But increasingly, therapists are seeing older women who have relapsed decades after successful treatment, or who can no longer hide the health effects of chronic abuse.

Eating Disorders and Self-Harm Link Key to Prevention

Parallels between eating disorders and self-harm may provide clues to find better ways of responding to self-harm behaviors.

Antipsychotics Don't Work For Alzheimer's

A major study indicates that antipsychotics, now widely used to treat certain symptoms of Alzheimer's, work no better than placebo. Even worse, they produce lots of unwanted side-effects. Details.

Renaming Schizophrenia

Mental health experts are calling for a change in the name of the psychiatric disorder Schizophrenia. They claim it's stigmatizing and doesn't precisely describe what's going on.

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More Schizophrenia Stories:

• FDA asked to approve Wyeth's new schizophrenia drug

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Additional stories linked from the HealthyPlace.com Thought Disorders Community homepage.

From the HealthyPlace.com Bulletin Boards: "Thinking About the Past"

jammy:

Everytime I am alone, and not busy, I start to think about the past; mainly things I have done wrong, mistakes I have made and it's just so much I want to scream.

I can't sleep a lot, and my sleep pattern is messed up which stresses me out even more. It's an endless cycle and I don't know how to stop it.

respond here.

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Something to think about...

"Life may not be the party we hoped for... but while we are here, we might as well dance!"

- Author Unknown

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