HIV+ in Nursing Homes Not Getting Psychiatric Help
HIV+ patients in nursing homes who have been diagnosed with depression may not be getting the mental health help they need, a new report suggests. Only 60% of such patients are receiving daily antidepressants, and fewer than half are getting other types of mental healthcare, such as therapy, according to Dr. Robert J. Buchanan of Texas A&M University in College Station, and colleagues.
( BY FAITH REIDENBACH, Reuters, 10/21/2002 07:13 AM PDT)

Incriminating evidence a thrill for show-offs
A successful dentist with a thriving practice drugs a patient, then videotapes himself having sex with her in his dental chair. He stores the tape in his office.
( BY L.L. BRASIER, FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER, 10/18/2002 12:45 PM PDT)

Mentally ill educate against prejudice
The date July 24 is now myth in the mental-health community, its very own 9/11. That was the day people with mental-health issues realized the depth of prejudice against them, during a showdown over a proposed Pleasant Hill rehabilitation center.
( 10/16/2002 08:20 AM PDT)

Might you need lessons in grieving?
Two months after his infant son died in 1970, Raymond Moody had two major panic attacks. In those days, "nobody talked about panic attacks," he said, and for a long time, he didn't connect them with the loss he'd suffered so recently.
( KAREN GARLOCH, 10/14/2002 07:21 AM PDT)

Report: N.Y. probed on mentally ill
The Justice Department is looking into whether New York's policy of releasing mentally ill patients from state hospitals to locked units in nursing homes violates civil rights laws, according to a published report.
( 10/14/2002 07:02 AM PDT)

Brain region size linked to post-traumatic stress
Results of a new study offer compelling evidence that the size of a brain region involved in memory and stress may affect the risk of developing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after a traumatic experience.
( BY MERRITT MCKINNEY, Reuters, 10/14/2002 11:13 AM PDT)

Some anorexics don't want to recover
They live by The Thin Commandments. ``If you aren't thin, you aren't attractive.'' ``Being thin is more important than being healthy.'' ``Take laxatives, starve yourself, do anything to be thinner.''
( BY RHODA FUKUSHIMA, Knight Ridder Newspapers, 10/11/2002 12:23 PM PDT)

Don't put off treatment for depression
Clinical depression is a physical disorder that should carry no more stigma than diabetes or high blood pressure. It's a disorder in areas of the brain that generate thoughts and feelings. When something goes wrong in these brain areas, it is inescapably reflected in a person's thoughts and feelings. Manic depression is characterized by mood swings - between feeling extremely low (depressed) to extremely high (euphoric, energetic).
( BY RICHARD HARKNESS, Knight Ridder Newspapers, 10/11/2002 12:37 PM PDT)

Exercises at desk can ease stress
Forget for the moment about sports or exercise you do before or after work. Think about the moments you've reached for your aching shoulder blades, caught yourself tightly hunched in front of your computer after several hours or felt your legs falling asleep from lack of movement.
( BY LISA LIDDANE, The Orange County Register, 10/11/2002 12:40 PM PDT)