Category: News
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Taking on Gaming Addiction
Read more: Taking on Gaming AddictionNYT: South Korea Expands Aid for Internet Addiction. Thanks partly to government counseling programs, the estimated number of teenagers with symptoms of Internet addiction has steadily declined, to 938,000 in 2009, from more than a million in 2007, the Ministry of Public Administration and Safety said in April. But the number of addicts in their…
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Therapy Apps
Read more: Therapy AppsFrom NPR: Mental Health Apps: Like A ‘Therapist In Your Pocket’. [On one app,] [t]hroughout the day at random times, a “mood map” pops up on a user’s cell phone screen. “People drag a little red dot around that screen with their finger to indicate their current mood”…Users also can chart their energy levels, sleep…
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Military Mental Health
Read more: Military Mental HealthIn the military, mental health hospitalizations continue to rise. Last year was the first in which hospitalizations for mental disorders outpaced those for injuries or pregnancies in the 15 years of tracking by the Pentagon’s Medical Surveillance Monthly report.
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Mental Illness and Jails
Read more: Mental Illness and JailsGrim report: Mentally ill people are sent to jail more often than hospital. As a result of the deinstitutionalization movement that began in the 1960s, though, “it is now extremely difficult to find a bed for a seriously mentally ill person who needs to be hospitalized,” Pavle and his co-authors write. In 1955, they write,…
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Sex, Alcoholism, Dementia, Depression, and Facebook
Read more: Sex, Alcoholism, Dementia, Depression, and FacebookAn especially alluring set of news headlines at PsychCentral today: Scientists Closer to Finding Cure for Alcoholism Your Dementia Risk Rises if Spouse Has Dementia Electromagnetic Stimulation (rTMS) for Depression Some Mood Disorders Stay with Us As We Age Social Media Doesn’t Help in the Classroom Older Men Benefit From Talking About Sex Exploring…