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Comfort Place and Best Program of Drugs Addiction Curing

Thursday, August 20, 2009

All of us definitely have known about the danger effects of someone when he/ she has been addicted to something dangerous and harm such as alcohol, drugs, gambling, sex and many more. In the aspect of social; such addiction certainly will affect their productivity that makes them lose spirit of working, do not care of family, get trap in many debts and many more. While in the aspect of health; it is so dangerous and can cause kinds of serious illness; moreover the addiction to opiates and alcohol, it can easily harm vital organs of body and cause fatal.

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Domestic violence is a growing problem for veterans

Saturday, November 8, 2008

"The growing number of veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) increases the risk of domestic violence and its impact on families and children in communities in the United States," said Monica Mathieu, Ph.D., a veteran mental health experts and senior lecturer Department of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis. "Treatment of Domestic Violence is very different from post-traumatic stress disorder. The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), psychiatric care and treatment of PTSD, but these services must be combined with the specialized agencies, domestic violence intervention program of enforcement and for veterans from participating in the aggression against the behavior of couples and families. "

Mathieu and Peter Hovmand, Ph.D., an expert of domestic violence and assistant professor of social work at the University of Washington, will combine their research interests, and we will work for the community to develop prevention strategies to combat this new problem Public Health.

"The increase in the incidence of cranial trauma and substance abuse in connection with post-traumatic stress disorder among veterans presented some unique problems for the community response to domestic violence," said Hovmand.

"The community response to domestic violence should be adapted to the growing number of veterans with PTSD. They are veterans with young families and older veterans with chronic mental disorders."

Even if the demographic structure of population changes, as a veteran of World War II veterans reach their 80's and 90-ies, youth and veterans of the completion of service in Iraq and Afghanistan, the number of living veterans in the United States military strikes. Current estimates indicate that there are 23,816,000 veterans.

Mathieu said that evidence-based psychological treatment programs can be a great resource for physicians to learn to recognize and treat symptoms of PTSD. Nevertheless, the identification of violent behavior among veterans with active symptoms of PTSD may be difficult and may require counseling and referral to domestic violence experts.

During the investigation, VA suggests that male veterans with PTSD in two to three times more likely than veterans without PTSD involved in intimate partner violence, and is likely to be included in the legal system.

"The community violence prevention agencies and services that are veterans of the treatment plan to cope with the aggression of conduct," said Hovmand.

"Veterans need to have multiple suppliers to coordinate assistance available to them, and each vendor is working on the treatment goal. Kommunalnogo coordinated response to this kind of law enforcement agencies, courts, social service agencies, community activists and advocates for women to address the problem of domestic violence. These efforts, the victim and offender accountability of security by promoting intercultural exchange and communication.

"Veteran's Day is an excellent reminder that we need to coordinate the services provided by VA and the community to ensure that our veterans and their families receive the services they need when they need it," Mathieu and Hovmand said.

source : http://www.medicalnewstoday.com

Meditation is good for psychiatrists' mental health

Saturday, July 5, 2008

Meditation sessions proved to be a success for the members of the Royal College of Psychiatrists at its annual meeting at Imperial College, London - the growing number are on the argument that the spiritual discipline against anxiety and burnout.

Meditation workshops under the guidance of college spirituality 2000 - a strong group of special interests, are overbooked. "How to be a reference to the need for spiritual food, that the members of the College not so easily to the outside world," said Dr. Sarah Eagger, Chairman of the Group of spirituality.

Dr. Eagger, consultant psychiatrist at St. Charles Hospital, London, said that his daily practice of meditation is so important in their daily work, as their medical training. "The strength of spiritual practice really happening in his own when the patient is in distress himself, while dealing with pressure of work in groups with a huge burden, and then have to spend time filling forms that you think are not reliable. I have enough . Without the practice of meditation to cultivate the area was still inside, I want to suffer burnout. "

Dr Andrew Powell, founder Chairman of the Group of spirituality, said: "There is the degree of concern in the profession to be caught up in a culture of measurement and in the box score. The result is that it is becoming increasingly difficult to practice Psychiatry, anxiety and concern for our patients to maintain human values and not caught up in "us and them" mentality. "

Nevertheless, many psychiatrists struggle to understand the importance of spirituality to their work, the meeting was told. Julia Head, a specialist chaplains in the Maudsley Hospital in London, told the conference that spirituality is increasingly recognized as an important part of good mental health.

"National Institute of Mental Health in England, is only the latest body to recognize the limits of modern medicine with the recommendation that experts in the field of spiritual support and physical therapy, including drugs," said Dr. chief, coordinates "the exploitation of training programmes for mental health 300 Specialists in areas of London Southwark and Lambeth.

"Experts should encourage hope and desire for change and the possibility of recovery. Nevertheless, the idea of healing, in contrast to clinical treatment, is that alien to many experts," he said. "You feel trapped in a culture where measuring clinical activities is a priority. It is time to realize that in order to support their patients recover, they must feel the assessment and allow time for their own growth."

The meeting also said that the evidence for the therapeutic benefits of meditation for a wide range of health problems was significantly stronger than most drugs. The new meta-analysis of 823 randomized controlled trials of meditation in which the United States - the National Institute of alternative and complementary medicine, showed clinical benefits of meditation through a wide range of physical and emotional disorders.

"Meditation is a way of life, not a rapid solution achieved through the payment of eight sessions or to use tricks, such as smoking, music and light", Dr Avdesh Sharma, former president of Psychiatric Association of India, he said. "It does not work immediately. We need to practice for several weeks before the consequences will be felt gradually."

Dr. Sharma added: "If meditation is a drug that we all want to see it in action. He has a positive influence on most of the problems of physical health and very effective for mental health significantly reduce depression and improve Fear relaxation, oxygen to the brain, insomnia and energy. "

Reference:

The Annual Meeting of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, Imperial College, London, 1 - 4 July 2008

adapted from www.rcpsych.ac.uk

Happily married and sleepy

Thursday, June 26, 2008

For many women the secret of good sleep is a happy marriage, according to the study in the United States.

University of Pittsburgh researchers studied nearly 2000 middle-aged women across the country. In particular, it covers issues its own assessment of their marital happiness and compare how well they slept.

The team led by Dr. Wendy Troxel fortunately, it was found that married women have less difficulty falling asleep, sleep, less Awakenings in early morning and go to bed in comparison with married women, unfortunately.

"The findings show that happily married women have fewer problems sleeping," he said.

The reference is not respected, but in a minority of women from ethnic minorities.

Written by Michael Day
Adapted from http://www.medicalnewstoday.com

People with mental illness wait longer in emergency departments and psychiatric units of hospitals nearby, according to poll

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Almost 80% of hospitals say that the mentally ill would be admitted to hospital must wait, sometimes for four hours or more to be admitted because of a lack of psychiatric beds and mental health personnel for the Study of the American College of Emergency Physicians, USA Today reports. For comparison, 30% from the hospital, said patients not seeking psychiatric care had to wait four hours or more before they are admitted.

For the study, ACEP officials surveyed 328 emergency medical directors. The study also found:

Approximately 10% of directors, said psychiatric patients waiting more than the average per day;

84% of directors said Ed would reduce the waiting time for all patients if their psychiatric hospitals provide better service;

Half of the respondents psychiatric hospital units, while the remaining patients to other facilities, and

61% of those surveyed hospitals do not have the staff ED psychiatric care for patients while they wait, but patients who received the attention of other medical problems.

Number of beds in psychiatric hospitals in the U.S. community had fallen 12% since 2000, compared with a decrease of 4% of the total number of hospital beds, according ACEP.

According to James Bentley from the American Hospital Association, clinics, psychiatric units have begun to close because of low payments from government programs and health insurance, uncompensated services to uninsured patients and the shortage of psychiatrists to work in hospitals. Bruce Schwartz, director of psychiatry at Montefiore Medical Center, said: "For people needing to register because they are psychotic or severe depression, which can be very unpleasant, disturbing, confusing time" (Appleby, USA Today, 6 / 17).

Reprinted with permission type http://www.kaisernetwork.org. You can download the entire Kaiser Daily Report Health Policy, search archives, or subscribe to the delivery of mail at http://www.kaisernetwork.org/dailyreports/healthpolicy. Kaiser Daily Health Policy, published kaisernetwork.org, a free service of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.

taken from http://www.medicalnewstoday.com

Hurricane Survivors Experience Long-Term Mental Health Distress

Thursday, June 5, 2008

As the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) works to close the last trailer parks that many Gulf-area hurricane survivors call home this weekend, the findings of a new study suggest that displacement affects survivors' mental health. More than half of the study participants reported significant long-term mental health distress, even as they moved back to their original communities. These findings are published in the latest issue of the American Medical Association (AMA) Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness journal.

The study, "Prevalence and Predictors of Mental Health Distress Post-Katrina," measured mental health distress and disability among members of more than a thousand households in Louisiana and Mississippi who lived in areas greatly affected by Hurricane Katrina or who were forced to evacuate after the storm. Poor physical health, moving often, and living in unsafe neighborhoods were among the significant factors of people more likely to have poor mental health. People with children in the household were also more likely to exhibit higher levels of mental health distress as the study suggests having a responsibility for others, particularly children, during a time of uncertainty and chaos, may lead to such distress.

"People who did not have strong informal support networks, who were afraid in their community, or who were more fatalistic were far more likely to exhibit mental health distress and disability," says lead study author David Abramson, PhD, MPH, Director of Research at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.

Participants were interviewed face-to-face six to 12 months after Katrina, and a telephone follow-up was conducted at 20 to 23 months after the disaster. Over time, several factors were associated with better mental health - including a functional social network and a positive state of mind.

"These findings show that rebuilding communities - and their social support networks - can greatly contribute to people's recovery," Dr. Abramson concludes.

Additional articles in the June issue of the AMA disaster journal include:

Unexplained Deaths in Connecticut during 2002-2003: Failure to Consider Category A Bioterrorism Agents in Differential Diagnoses"

Cash Grants in Humanitarian Assistance: An NGO Experience in Aceh, Indonesia Following the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami"

Secondary Contamination of Medical Personnel, Equipment, and Facilities Resulting from Hazardous Materials Events"

This article is available ahead of print and the full journal will publish June 3.

About AMA's Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness Journal

The AMA Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness Journal was created to promote public health preparedness and the science of disaster medicine. It is the first comprehensive, peer-reviewed publication emphasizing public health preparedness and disaster response. The journal is published for the AMA by leading health care publisher Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

Taken from : http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/

Perspectives on Mental Health Recovery

Friday, February 29, 2008

If you have a chronic disease like heart attack or diabetes, you will have to live life with it. You will learn to adjust after each attack and would know the signs that there is an acute attack budding. The same is true with recovery from a mental illness. You cannot expect that during treatment, you will be a renewed man. Symptoms would still be apparent and you would experience things that are sometimes hopeless and debilitating but still you have to adjust through them. And with each adjustment, you would feel that you are starting to move forward, leaving your mental illness behind.

Mental health recovery is all about improvement from a bad case to something better. It is a continuous process and definitely not a linear one. You would move from square one to square two but you should always be ready to move one step back. You would learn newer ways to control the symptoms of your mental illness and would have insights on how to cope with them. There would be a lot of disappointments and errors the results from these errors are oftentimes rewarding.

Mental health recovery is a lifelong process as much as mental illness took years to develop sometimes even decades. A person could struggle through years of being controlled solely by a mental disorder and will have to face a lifelong effort to get out of it. You may achieve a life beyond the chains of your previous mental illness symptoms but you would still have to bout with intermittent attacks of symptoms.

One crucial factor to all kinds of illnesses is early intervention. Someone who presents symptoms of schizophrenia during earlier stages have a better chance of easier recovery with early intervention than someone who has aggravated case. Likewise, any signs of relapse that are recognized and treated early could define the barrier between going through the same disorder again or completely shutting all doors towards total recovery.

However, recovery from a mental disorder is just one of the many parts of the process. A person suffering from mental illness should also work to restore his mental health or sense of well-being.

Many individuals who have histories of mental illness often resort to a life that is withdrawn from the public due to social stigma and discrimination associated with the mental disorder. This leads to impaired sense of self-worth thus invaliding the whole idea of recovery.

For most people, the hardest stage of the recovery process is not the beginning but the end. In this stage, a person has to reclaim everything that he has lost during the entire period he had the mental illness plus every lost opportunity that he would have taken prior to the onset of symptoms.

Sadly, reclaiming these bits of life is far harder than all the aspects of recovery combined. Going back to "what could have been" takes a very long time as well as mending the damages caused by the mental illness due to very limited opportunities opened to people who have suffered a mental disorder.

But this shouldn't be. You may not be able to go back to your previous job or do the things that you used to do but you could redirect your life to something different but equally rewarding. This has happened before to other people, it will happen to you.

3 Major Focuses of Recovery for Optimized Mental Health

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Focus on the Individual

The focus of recovery should be on the person or the individual and not the process of treatment. There is a constant shift in the manners by which people suffering from psychological disorders are being treated. During the past centuries, due partly to the drive to establish more reliable and effective treatment methods, most mental health professionals fail to focus on the process occurring in a patient, the changes he is undergoing throughout the treatment and the improvements that are associated with the treatment. Instead, the common point for most practitioners is the process of treatment itself- whether or not one treatment is more effective than the other or whether or not a specific therapy could actually work for all patients.

It is a good thing that mental illnesses are viewed now from the sufferer's perspectives rather than the technicalities of the treatment or therapy. Individuals have various presentations of a mental disorder. Thus needing individualized forms of recovery treatments that are curtailed to the person's preferences, unique characteristics such as resiliency, strengths and weaknesses, cultural background and experiences.

Focus on the Community

It should be grounded on peer support � External support is invaluable in the process of recovery. Knowing that there are other people who, like the patient, also struggle to achieve the state of well being they want to achieve. It helps for them to know that there are people who cares for them, who wants to see them gain back their life and who shares the same sufferings as they do.

There should exist a mental health support group that would guide and enlighten the patients with the reality of the psychological disorder. This also provides the mutual support that is needed in gaining skills and knowledge on the disorder which is a contributory factor towards improvement.

Focus on Issues Surrounding Mental Wellness

It should be well-directed � A direction set by both the mental health providers and the patient should be prepared during the initial stage of recovery. The patient determines the pace of healing while the mental health professional facilitate the direction.

It should be non-linear - This perspective adheres to the belief that a recovery process is both an end and a process. It is not the usual step-by-step process that has varying levels. In mental health recovery, it is possible that a person who has already overcome the symptoms of a mental disorder could still be troubled by the relapse of the same symptoms. It is, in fact, a trial-and-error process with the promise of development and usual setbacks.

It should be holistic � The concept of holism should be fully integrated into the process of recovery. Recovery from a mental disorder does not only cover specific and separate issues like biological or psychosocial aspects of the disorder. Instead, it affects a person in an extensive manner. Thus recovery should also focus on the micro as well as macro issues surrounding the disorder.

Lastly, the process of recovery should be empowered by hope matched by the motivation and willingness to break free from the mental illness. This could only be achieved when all individual factors � the perspective of the individual and the direction he is taking, the support of external groups such as the family and peers and the right frame of mind.

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