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		<title>Preschool depression</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the August 25th The New York Times, Pamela Paul reports on preschool depression.
Nothing is fun; I&#8217;m bored.  Mickey lies. Dreams don&#8217;t come true.
Helen Egger, a Duke University child psychiatrist and epidemiologist, discusses the symptoms.
The misery needs to persist across time, in different settings, with different people. Nor is it enough just to be sad; after all, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grief, Bereavement, Depression in DSM5</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s letters to the editor in the New York Times on grief are informative.
Gordon Livingston writes:
To set two weeks as the time allocated to mourning the loss of a loved one before receiving a diagnosis of major depression — as proposed in the American Psychiatric Association’s fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NJ Psychiatric Hospitals Sued Over Forced Medication</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the August 3, 2010 New York Times, Richard Perez-Pena reports:
Patient advocates filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday charging that New Jersey psychiatric hospitals routinely medicate patients against their will without a review by an outside arbiter, a practice that is banned in most other states.
Twenty-nine states require a judge’s ruling for involuntary medication, according [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Depression linked to increased dementia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Adjusting for differences between groups, researchers found that depression raised the risk of dementia by 72 percent. And the more severe the depression, the greater the risk of dementia later.
July 19 New York Times, Roni Caryn Rabin.
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		<title>Attention Disorder can take Toll on Marriages</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the July 19, 2010, The New York Times, Tara Parker-Pope blogs on the impact of ADHD on marriages.
In a marriage, the common symptoms of the disorder — distraction, disorganization, forgetfulness — can easily be misinterpreted as laziness, selfishness, and a lack of love and concern.
Adults with attention disorders often learn coping skills to help [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recent digest of mental health articles, podcasts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the June 28, The New York Times, Seeking to pre-empt marital strife.
One federally financed study is tracking 217 couples taking part in an annual “marriage checkup” that essentially offers preventive care, like an annual physical or a dental exam.
“You don’t wait to see the dentist until something hurts — you go for checkups on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spill Takes Toll on Gulf Workers’ Psyches</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the June 17, 2010, NYT article by Mireya Navarro.
“It’s the fear of losing everything,” said Representative Anh Cao, a Republican from New Orleans who has assembled a response team to travel along the Gulf Coast to assess constituents’ needs.  Mr. Cao said he had met two fishermen in Plaquemines Parish who told him [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Secondhand Smoke and Mental Health</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Roni Caryn Rabin reports in The New York Times June 10, 2010, on a study that analyzed data from the Scottish Health Survey of 1998 and 2003.
Smokers are known to suffer from high rates of depression and other mental health problems, and now a study reports that even people exposed to secondhand smoke are at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bernardsvoices.atg-host.com/2010/06/16/secondhand-smoke-and-mental-health/</link>
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		<title>Fellow Traveler</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, when the YMCA here in Bernards Township hosted its Mental Health Awareness Week, I was asked if I wanted to share some of my thoughts on this topic through this forum.  So far, I haven&#8217;t done so, but I&#8217;ll start today.
It is slightly difficult for me to know where to begin because of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bernardsvoices.atg-host.com/2010/06/14/my-story/</link>
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		<title>Generalized Anxiety Order: treatment at primary care</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Dec 16, 2006 Lancet podcast on Generalized Anxiety Disorder addresses the question: how should our medical system detect and treat anxiety?
GAD is defined by exclusion.   It is not a panic disorder—which is a sudden, severe, episode or attack, of anxiety.   GAD is not post traumatic stress disorder—which also has clearly defined source. [...]]]></description>
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