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Homelessness and the Mentally Ill
By M. B. It’s a cold winter night. The temperature has dropped below zero and a heavy snow is falling. You crunch through six or more inches of frozen snow and the subzero arctic wind cuts through you heaviest new … Continue reading
Interview with a Police Officer Who Deals with the Mentally Ill in the CIT
Crisis Intervention Treatment (CIT) is a Program Where Special Officers Learn to Deal with Mentally Ill Consumers By Shana Dines Dottie L. Davis is the Deputy Chief of the Fort Wayne Police Department. She is involved and a passionate advocate … Continue reading
Should Mentally Ill People Be Allowed to Vote?
…And Don’t We Just Have – Umm – Quite the Large Pair for Even Asking? By Stanley W. Shura It seems that most of the time, questions such as these are posed with an implied connotation. I personally find it … Continue reading
Road Rage
Excerpt from http://www.aaafoundation.org/resource The Automobile Association Group Public Policy Road Safety Unit Matthew Joint, MSc, BSc, MCIT Head of Behavioral Analysis March, 1995 What is “Road Rage”? “Road Rage” is a term that is believed to have originated in the … Continue reading
Aggressive Driving
Excerpt from http://www.aaafoundation.org/resources A Report by Louis Mizell, Inc. for the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety Introduction In Massachusetts, Donald Graham, a 54-year-old bookkeeper, became embroiled in a heated, ongoing traffic dispute with Michael Blodgett, 42, on February 20, 1994. … Continue reading
Famous People, Actors, Musicians, Comedians with Mental Illness
By schoolgirlforreal Mental Illness? What is a mental illness? It is just like a physical illness of the body but in the brain. The brain in this case lacks certain important chemicals or ingredients such as serotonin and dopamine which … Continue reading
Workplace Stress and Your Health (continued)
Experts explain the dangers of work-related stress and provide solutions. (continued) How to Respond to Stressful Situations continued… Next, she suggests, “Express your opinion about the situation. You can say, ‘I don’t think it’s possible for me to work at … Continue reading
Workplace Stress and Your Health (continued)
Experts explain the dangers of work-related stress and provide solutions. (continued) How Stress Affects Your Health Why does stress make you sick? “When your brain perceives stress, you get reactions from the stress-reactive area, and an elevation of stress hormones … Continue reading
Workplace Stress and Your Health
Experts explain the dangers of work-related stress and provide solutions. By Elizabeth Heubeck WebMD Feature Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD If you have a cruel boss or rotten co-workers, beware. It may not be just your job that’s on the … Continue reading
Conflicting Evidence on Impact of Video Game Violence
By Rick Nauert PhD Senior News Editor Reviewed by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on April 22, 2011 While the jury is still out on whether video game violence harms teenagers, a new study uses a novel method to consider the … Continue reading