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This Week - March 27, 2006

1. Changing antidepressants may aid depressed
2. Treating moms' depression may help kids
3. Fear of flying can cripple workers
4. Cymbalta helps with GAD
5. Book teaches kids how to deal with anxiety
6. Fighting parents stressful for kids
7. Bipolar Disorder: No meds can lead to tragic life
8. Bipolar author describes 'Revved Up' life
9. More children are battling mental illness
10. Teacher-sex outcome sparks outrage
11. A "date with danger." What teens need to know
12. Psychology today: let bygones be bygones
13. Are some teachers misusing the ADHD diagnosis?
14. ADHD stimulants cause some kids to hallucinate
15. More adults taking ADHD meds
16. Extreme personality poses risk of ADHD, conduct disorder
17. In UK, supervised self-harm
18. Revisiting Schizophrenia: Are drugs always needed?
19. AUDIO: The burden of being a caregiver
20. Latest Schizophrenia News
21. Forums: "Hypnosis didn't help me one bit."
22. Thought for today

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Changing Medicines May Aid Depressed

Many depressed patients who didn't get better on one medicine were able to overcome their crushing dark spells with another, according to the largest study ever of treatments for America's top mental health problem.

Treating Moms' Depression May Help Kids

Treating a mother's depression can help prevent it and other disorders in her child, say researchers in a provocative study that may influence family health care.

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Fear of Flying Can Cripple Workers

Fear of flying cripples — or at least burdens — the careers of millions of workers. It can also decrease productivity and strain relationships with employers. Read this.

Cymbalta Effective For GAD

Cymbalta, the antidepressant that relieves depression and the pain associated with it, also may help with generalized anxiety disorder.

Book Teaches Children How to Deal With Anxiety

For children, worries come in many forms. Yet, telling kids not to worry, to take a deep breath, or, just don’t think about it, is ineffective. But there may be relief in the form of a new self-help book, designed to guide 6 to 12 year olds and their parents as they learn to manage generalized anxiety.

Fighting Parents Stressful for Kids

Six-year-olds whose parents displayed frequent disagreements in their relationship responded to subsequent parental conflicts with elevated distress and negative thoughts, according to a new study.

Bipolar Disorder: Life Can Turn Tragic When Patients Don't Take their Medicine

A mother loses one son to the mania of untreated bipolar. Her other son, age 36, is also bipolar and in a facility. She contemplates her life. A recovering alcoholic and victim of two abusive marriages, she says it took her years to understand that the definition of her life was "trauma all the time," to reach "a point where I knew I couldn't make it better." More

Bipolar Author Describes 'Revved Up' Life

Tom Wootton was hired to run a U-Haul center, and "within two months, I was vice president of the company," he says. He also ran health clubs, worked as a stripper, started a dot-com company and became a dot-com millionaire. He wrote a book about himself in six days. But Wootton, 49, didn't understand why his life seemed so revved up.

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Children of Rage and Sorrow

Half of all cases of mental illness start by age 14, often with mild symptoms that go untreated and turn into serious disorders. According to the Surgeon General's Report on Mental Illness, one in 10 American children has a mental disorder severe enough to cause impairment. Here are a few of their stories.

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Teacher-Sex Outcome Sparks Outrage

Now that state prosecutors have dropped charges against Debra Lafave in Marion County, Fla., it appears the former teacher won't be spending any time in jail for allegedly having sex several times with a 14-year-old student. Many are flabbergasted and angry.

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The Pain of Depression

As you’ve seen on TV, depression can have both emotional and painful physical symptoms. Learn about what you can do. Click here.

What Teens Need to Know Before their Relationship Becomes a Date with Danger

For teens inexperienced in the dating world, the intensity of an abusive relationship can be mistaken for love. Here are signs to watch for.

More and More, Favored Psychotherapy Lets Bygones Be Bygones

Returning to the past has fallen out of fashion among mental health professionals over the last 15 years. Research has convinced many therapists that understanding the past is not required for healing.

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Is ADHD Being Over-Diagnosed?

Are some teachers using ADHD to control unruly students, particularly boys, who are naturally more rambunctious? Are parents seeking an edge for unfocused children who are struggling academically? Are time-pressed doctors handing out prescriptions based on little more than a 15-minute chat and a teacher's note? With 3.3 million American children on stimulants, some are starting to wonder what's going on.

More ADHD Stories

• More Adults, Fewer Young Kids on ADHD Drugs
• Panel Advises Disclosure of Stimulants' Psychotic Effects on Children
• Extreme Personality Poses Risk of ADHD, Conduct Disorder

Supervised Self-Injury

In the UK, patients who self-harm are being allowed to do so under supervision in the hospital in an innovative scheme.

Revisiting Schizophrenia: Are Drugs Always Needed?

A report appearing next month in one of the field's premier journals suggests that when some people first develop psychosis they can function without medication — or with far less than is typically prescribed — as well as they can with the drugs. And the long-term advantage of treating first psychotic episodes with antipsychotics, the report found, was not clear.

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"I Really Don't Want To Be A Carer"
"When asked what it is like to be a carer, I say it's like every grandparent's nightmare." 3 families talk frankly about the burden of caring for someone with a serious mental illness.
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More Schizophrenia Stories:

• Meds Keep Schizophrenia at Bay
• Hospitalized Patients with Schizophrenia More Likely to Have Medical and Surgical Complications

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

From the HealthyPlace.com Bulletin Boards: "Hypnosis Didn't Help Me One Bit"

Lorrai:

"Have you tried hypnosis, and did it help you?

Not all people can be hypnotized. I'm pretty gullible, and thought it might work for me. So I went to Amazon and bought a couple of used hypnosis tapes. Of course, as a U.S. woman, I bought them on weight loss. Here is my experience." continue here.

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Something to think about...

"When you do something you've never done before, you're bound to feel some discomfort and anxiety. The good news is, after you've done it once, the fear of the unknown will be gone forever."

From all of us here at HealthyPlace.com, we hope you have a good week.

Previous Newsletters

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• Feb. 13, 2006
• Jan. 30, 2006
• Dec. 19, 2005

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