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OBAMACARE’S DEMISE IS A LOOMING DISASTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH
A recent CDC report shows that the percentage of adults with serious psychological distress who are uninsured has dropped from 28.1 percent in 2012 to 19.5 percent in the first nine months of 2015. OBAMACARE’S DEMISE IS A LOOMING DISASTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH AUTHOR: ISSIE LAPOWSKY Look at a map of states president-elect Donald Trump won in November alongside a map of states with the highest rates of opioid prescriptions, and you’ll see they mostly overlap. Look more closely at the data, as one Penn State professor recently did, and you’ll find that Trump outperformed his Republican predecessor Mitt Romney the most in counties where opiate and suicide mortality rates…
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Trumpcare Will Be Catastrophic For People With Mental Health Issues
Experts in behavioral health and lawmakers who have been fighting for mental health awareness vehemently oppose the legislation. Trumpcare Will Be Catastrophic For People With Mental Health Issues House Republicans on Thursday passed an updated version of the American Health Care Act, which could affect the millions of people who live with a mental health or substance-use disorder. Analysis of the GOP bill by various organizations shows a grim outlook. Not only would people dealing with mental health conditions or drug dependency have to pay higher premiums, many may not even be covered. This could have serious consequences, with the country in the throes of one of history’s worst opioid…
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Emotional Agility as a Tool to Help Teens Manage Their Feelings
Emotions are not good or bad — they just are.Emotions are not good or bad — they just are. Emotional Agility as a Tool to Help Teens Manage Their Feelings By Deborah Farmer Kris FEBRUARY 28, 2017 Navigating the ups and downs of the teenage years has never been easy, as young adults manage a lot of changes that are hormonal, physical, social and emotional. Teens could use help during this period; according to a recent study, the prevalence of depression in adolescents has increased in the last decade. One way teens can manage these experiences, according to psychologist Susan David, is by equipping teens with the emotional skills to…
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Why Aren’t There More Resources for Adult Self-Injurers?
Even getting adults to commit to group therapy can be a challenge. Adults are burdened with more responsibility than adolescents and may have trouble finding the time and effort to make the commitment for their own healing, even when resources are available. Why Aren’t There More Resources for Adult Self-Injurers? By Renée Fabian 03/21/17 Over time, self-injury itself can become a habitual, nearly addictive behavior, and 8.7 percent of self-injurers are also addicts. Erin Hardy, a Wisconsin-based therapist, found herself in a quandary when an uptick of people who self-injured came to her about five years ago. This was a new area to her practice, so Hardy sought consultation with…
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Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) and the Buddhist Philosophy
DBT deals with intense and labile emotions. There is a connection between mindfulness and emotion regulation. Mindfulness facilitates adaptive emotion regulation. Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) and the Buddhist Philosophy Posted on March 20th, 2017 Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is a modified form of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) that was developed in late 1970s by Marsha M. Linehan a psychology researcher at the University of Washington (Linehan, 1993). DBT is an empirically supported treatment for suicidal individuals (Linehan et al., 2015). It can be adapted to treat borderline personality disorder patients with comorbid substance-abuse disorder (Koerner & Linehan, 2000) and depressed elderly clients with personality disorders (Lynch…
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Selena Gomez on Instagram Fatigue, Good Mental Health, and Stepping Back From the Limelight
“DBT has completely changed my life,” she says. “I wish more people would talk about therapy. We girls, we’re taught to be almost too resilient, to be strong and sexy and cool and laid-back, the girl who’s down. We also need to feel allowed to fall apart.” Selena Gomez on Instagram Fatigue, Good Mental Health, and Stepping Back From the Limelight MARCH 16, 2017 7:01 AM by ROB HASKELL On an unusually wet and windy evening in Los Angeles, Selena Gomez shows up at my door with a heavy bag of groceries. We’ve decided that tonight’s dinner will be a sort of tribute to the after-church Sunday barbecues she remembers…