Anxiety disorders affect 5% of the household population, causing mild to severe impairment.
Suicide accounts for 24% of all deaths among 15-24 year olds and 16% among 25-44 year olds.
Suicide is one of the leading causes of death in both men and women from adolescence to middle age.
The mortality rate due to suicide among men is four times the rate among women.
Books on mental health
Madness: A Bipolar Life (Hardcover)byMarya Hornbacher
The Bipolar Disorder Survival Guide: What You and Your Family Need to Know (Paperback)byDavid J. Miklowitz
Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness (Paperback)byPatty Duke
Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder: Understanding and Helping Your Partner (Paperback)byJulie A. Fast
Bipolar Disorder: The Ultimate Guide (Paperback)bySarah Owen
A Look Inside Bipolar Disorder - One Woman's Story (Paperback)byTracy Suzanne Green
Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy (Paperback)bySonya Sones
Websites
Schizophrenia Digest
www.schizophreniadigest.ca
Moods Magazine
www.moodsmag.com
National Institutes of Health
: http://www.nimh.nih.gov/
Americana psychiatric association
www.psych.org
Mental Health and Wellness Information at HYPERLINK "http://www.mentalhelp.net/"Mental Help Net
http://www.mentalhelp.netHYPERLINK "http://www.mentalhelp.net/"/
Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mental-Help-Net/131473916201
Proper Eating Improves Dementia Patients' Physical And Mental Health
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/257109.php)
Father's Mental Health Linked To Child's Behavior
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/254641.php
Mental Health Disorders Linked To Domestic Violence
New research from the UK finds that experience of domestic violence is more common among adults with all kinds of mental health disorders than in the general population. The researchers, from King's College London's Institute of Psychiatry, http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/254475.php
childhood Bullying May Lead To Mental Health Issues In Adults
Being a victim of childhood bullying alters the structure which surrounds a gene that controls mood, which in turn, makes victims more susceptible to developing mental health issues as they grow older http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/254294.php
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Schizophrenia is a mental illness
characterized by a breakdown of thought processes and by deficit emotional response s. This illness may affect 300,000 Canadians and approximately 1% of any society's population of people.
The condition includes symptoms of auditory, paranoid and bizarre delusions of Ganger as well as disorganized speech and thinking. Schizophrenia in history was often thought of as person being possessed by demons and who were feared, tormented, exiled or locked up by the government at the time. The causes of schizophrenia are poorly misunderstood even though progress has been made to understand it. This disease of the can be treated by medication but not cured. Medication is only half the battle for people with this mental disorder. It cannot help them with earning a job, learning to be effective in social relationships and may even hinder their education. Often people who are African or Latinos prone to misdiagnosis, and belief in a religion where the individual thinks that only god can cure their mental illness.
Medication monthly
medication
news:medication describe this month the types of medications used to treat mental disorders, side effects of medications, directionsMedication for Antipsychotics/Antidepressants /Mood stabilizers/Stimulants/ Hallucinogens
Clozapine:treatment of schizophrenia, and is also sometimes used for the treatment of bipolar disorder atypical antipsychotic drug treating treatment-resistant schizophrenia.
Increased salivation Drowsiness Weight gain (see Clozapine and Weight Gain) Dizziness or vertigo (a spinning sensation) Constipation Insomnia (see Clozapine and Insomnia).
warning Studies have shown that up to 26 percent of people reported insomnia as one of the clozpine side effect. clozpine is said to decrease the risk of suicidal behavior with people who have schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder. treatment of schizophrenia. Other atypical antipsychotic medications used for schizophrenia include:
Aripiprazole (Abilify®)
Paliperidone (Invega®)
Olanzapine (Zyprexa®
