Report Chronicles the Rising Burden of Military Mental Health Care

Report chronicles the rising burden of military mental health care

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A study comparing the military's health care burden during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq with its prewar burden found that hospitalization of active-duty troops for mental disorders accounted for 63 percent of the increases in hospitalization rates …
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Regis hosts forum on new thinking for mental illness and PTSD

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The Affordable Care Act (ACA) will make treatment for mental illness more widely available, but will there be enough psychotherapists to meet the need? That was just one question raised at a recent forum at Regis College, attended by nurses, social …
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Lack of exercise blamed for rise in mental illness

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The mental health of New Zealanders is being compromised by a lack of exercise and poor lifestyle choices warns the New Zealand Chiropractors' Association following reports from the USA that mental health clinicians are considering exercise not just in …
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Talking with Helen – (Mental Illness Treatment Alternative) – www.livenowassociation.com Part four of a five part Live Now conversation. As she comes out of her mental illness, Helen is turning her 5 pound garbage brain into a 5 pound gem. Live Now is an alternative treatment for mental illness. This treatment gives the patient the tools to separate from the thinking that has the illness. The patient comes to see that they are not the thinking that thinks it is them. The Live Now treatment for mental illness is a counseling treatment that is an alternative to Psychiatric counseling and treatment, conventional counseling treatment and spiritual counseling and treatment.