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Patient With Schizophrenia On Hearing Voices; What Mental Health Disorder Is Really All About [VIDEO]
By Alleah Kiamco | Apr 24, 2017 07:42 PM EDTA patient with schizophrenia talks about her condition. Get to know what this mental health disorder is really all about.
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'13 Reasons Why' Draws Flak On Mental Health, Suicide Treatment In Show
By Gerard Black | Apr 20, 2017 07:41 PM EDTThe popular Netflix series '13 Reasons Why' is drawing strong criticism. Advocacy groups are not liking how the show has portrayed mental health issues and believed it glamorized suicide.
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More British People Lonelier Than Ever: Find Out The Reason Behind
By Mariel Peralta | Jun 10, 2016 06:23 AM EDTMore than a million people in Britain are lonely and they are scared to admit their predicament, a new survey revealed.
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Survey Finds One in 45 American Kids has an Autism Spectrum Disorder
By Cheri Cheng | Nov 13, 2015 09:38 AM ESTExperts with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that one in 45 American kids has an autism spectrum disorder.
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Many Drug Abusers do not know how to React During Overdose
By Cheri Cheng | Oct 03, 2014 10:09 AM EDTAccording to a new study, many prescription drug abusers do not know how to respond to an overdose.
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Public is more Negative toward Drug Addicts than the Mentally Ill
By Cheri Cheng | Oct 02, 2014 12:09 PM EDTIn a new study, researchers found that the public is more likely to be negative toward drug addicts than the mentally ill.
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Views on Mental Health Improving, Study Finds
By Cheri Cheng | Jun 12, 2014 02:55 PM EDTA new study out of the UK found that people's attitudes toward mental health is improving.
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Eating Disorders are often Overlooked in Men
By Cheri Cheng | Apr 09, 2014 09:35 AM EDTAccording to a new UK study, men with eating disorders are often overlooked and misdiagnosed.
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Experts Call Depression the Second Leading Cause of Disability in the World
By Cheri Cheng | Nov 07, 2013 10:37 AM ESTIn a new review of published studies, researchers concluded that depression is the second most common cause of disability in the world.
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90 Percent of Dementia Cases Are Left Untreated in China
By Cheri Cheng | Jul 25, 2013 01:55 PM EDTResearcher report that 93 percent of people older than 60 with dementia living in China never get care because their condition is rarely detected.
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At-Home HIV Tests May Reduce Spread of the Disease, Eliminate Stigma
By Makini Brice | Apr 03, 2013 10:02 AM EDTAcccording to UNAIDS, 2.5 million people in the world become infected with HIV each year.
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Depression Stigma may be Fading: Survey
By Drishya Nair | Oct 12, 2012 09:26 AM EDTPeople, who never had Depression, could find it very difficult to understand what a patient goes through, and hence such patients could seem unattractive and unreliable to them. The serious illness, of which no one needs to be ashamed of, has had a social stigma around it for years and a lot of times, patients fail to get proper and timely treatment to the problem because they try to hide it.
