Showing posts with label Mental Health. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mental Health. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 9, 2015

Common Sense?

June 09, 2015 CBS New York , Mayo Clinic 0 Comments
Seen At 11: Researchers Say They’ve Cracked The Code To Being Happy

By CBS New York, Jun. 5, 2015

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Are you happy? Do you know how to be happy?

After decades of studying and working with tens of thousands of patients, researchers at the Mayo Clinic say they’ve cracked the code to being happy.

The Mayo Clinic is one of the most prestigious health organizations in the world with as many as 8,000 ongoing studies exploring every imaginable condition — including unhappiness.

Lionel Ketchian is approaching a major milestone.

He will soon celebrate the 25th anniversary of a very important date — Dec. 24, 1990, at around 5 p.m.

It’s not his birthday — or his wedding anniversary. It’s the exact moment Ketchian said he realized he was happy.

“I found it. I felt it. didn’t want to let go of it,” Ketchian said.

Who doesn’t want to get — and stay happy?


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Wednesday, December 24, 2014

France downplays

December 24, 2014 Crash , France 0 Comments
France: Another ‘Allahu Akbar’ Shouting Driver Slams Into Christmas Shoppers

creeping, Dec. 23, 2014

France’s top security official says the driver of the van then stabbed himself several times after the incident.

Authorities say 11 people, including the driver, were injured in the incident which occurred in the town Nantes on a busy market full of holiday shoppers.

The prosecutor in Dijon said the driver behind the attack in that city has a long history of severe mental illness and no links to terrorism.

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Sunday, December 21, 2014

Don't tell Piers!

December 21, 2014 2nd Amendment , Foxnews.com 0 Comments
US Appeals Court Deems Gun Law Unconstitutional

FoxNews.com, Dec. 19, 2014

“The government’s interest in keeping firearms out of the hands of the mentally ill is not sufficiently related to depriving the mentally healthy, who had a distant episode of commitment, of their constitutional rights,” wrote Judge Danny Boggs, an appointee of President Ronald Reagan, for the panel.

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Saturday, November 15, 2014

FORTY YEARS!!!!

November 15, 2014 Criminal Justice System , James McElhatton 0 Comments
Man Locked 40 Yrs In D.C. Mental Hospital For $20 Necklace Theft Breaks Silence

James McElhatton, Nov. 11, 2014, Washington Times

It didn’t matter. Four decades ago, police charged him with stealing a $20 necklace, but Mr. Frye was found not competent to stand trial. If he’d been found guilty, he would’ve faced a fine or perhaps a short jail sentence. Instead, he’s spent most of his life inside the District’s psychiatric hospital, St. Elizabeth’s, feeling frustrated with, and forgotten by, the very system charged with looking after his welfare.

It’s a case that raises tricky questions about fairness within the criminal justice system and life inside St. Elizabeth’s. Indeed, for years the court system simply lost track of him.

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Friday, November 7, 2014

Ever been to a Nets game? She was booooooorrrrred!

November 07, 2014 Beyonce , International Business Times 0 Comments
Beyoncé Raises Concerns Over Her Health After Bizarre Display At Nets Game

Toyin Owoseje, Nov. 6, 2014, International Business Times

Pop superstar Beyoncé has sparked fears over her mental and physical health after footage emerged of her acting strangely at a recent NBA basketball game.

The 33-year-old Drunk in Love hitmaker was at the Oklahoma City Thunder Vs Brooklyn Nets gamewith her husband Jay Z when she began swaying from side to side.

In the 60-second clip making the rounds online, the Drunk in Love singer can be seen having an awkward exchange with her partner before starting to move with no music playing and a blank expression on her face.


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Thursday, July 10, 2014

Can You Pass The Donald Sterling Test? Hear KPCC Staffers Try Their Best --Harder than it looks

July 10, 2014 Donald Sterling , Los Angeles County Superior Court 0 Comments
Donald Sterling / Source:  KPCC
By Off-Ramp with John Rabe, Jul. 9, 2014

Scandal-plagued Donald Sterling is fighting his wife Shelly's attempt to sell the NBA Clippers, and her claim — based on two medical exams — that he has Alzheimer's.

In L.A. Superior Court yesterday, Sterling ridiculed the doctors and his wife's attorney.

One paragraph stood out in James Rainey's coverage of yesterday's proceedings in the L.A. Times (emphasis added):

Dr. Meril Platzer and Dr. James Spar first reviewed scans of Sterling's brain, then interviewed him and conducted a battery of tests. They reported that he had trouble spelling the word "world" backward and counting backward, by sevens, from 100. (As in 100, 93, 86, 79, etc.) His mental deterioration made it impossible for Sterling to continue as a trustee of the family trust that controls the Clippers, they concluded.

My guess is that most readers tried that little test themselves, trying to spell out D-L-R-O-W and then counting backwards from 100, by 7s. (Those are just two steps in the Mini-Mental State Evaluation, a standard for testing mental impairment.)

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Thursday, May 29, 2014

Santa Barbara Shooter's Therapist Has Ties With Hollywood --Had been treating murderer until last year

May 29, 2014 California , Dr. Charles Sophy 0 Comments
Dr. Charles Sophy
By Gary Baum, May 27, 2014, Hollywoodreporter.com

High-profile and controversial Beverly Hills psychiatrist Dr. Charles Sophy was treating Santa Barbara shooter Elliot Rodger during a key period within the year leading up to the May 23 massacre that resulted in seven deaths (including his own), as well as 13 injuries -- according to Rodger's own 137-page manifesto.

Sophy, a prominent Southern California physician who has served as the medical director of the County of Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services for more than a decade, has in the past been criticized for continuing with his busy role at the troubled mental health agency (where systemic breakdowns contributed to deaths) while maintaining a lucrative private practice and frequent media appearances. His client list is said to have included Paris Hilton, former Spice Girl Mel B and the late Russell Armstrong (whose suicide after battering wife Taylor was central to an early season of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills). At the same time, he has provided on-air expertise on programs ranging from Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew to Flipping Out.

Sophy, one of a number of therapists Rodger met with over the years, did not respond to a request for comment about his care for the 22-year-old, who grew up in the celebrity-studded suburb of Calabasas to parents involved in the film industry. (Father Peter Rodger was an assistant director on the first Hunger Games film, while mother Li Chin, an on-set nurse, once dated George Lucas.)

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Thursday, April 3, 2014

Fort Hood Gunman Sought Mental Health Treatment --Time to reconsider gun free zones?

April 03, 2014 Army Secretary John McHugh , Associated Press 0 Comments
Source:  www.usacarry.com
By Will Weissert and Paul J. Weber, Apr. 3, 2014, Associated Press
FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) -- The soldier who killed three people at Fort Hood may have argued with another service member prior to the attack, and investigators believe his unstable mental health contributed to the rampage, authorities said Thursday.
The base's senior officer, Lt. Gen. Mark Milley, said there is a "strong possibility" that Spc. Ivan Lopez had a "verbal altercation" with another soldier or soldiers immediately before Wednesday's shooting, which unfolded on the same Army post that was the scene of an infamous 2009 mass shooting.
However, there's no indication that he targeted specific soldiers, Milley said.

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