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Showing posts with label mental health. Show all posts
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US military struggling to stop suicide epidemic among war veterans | World news | guardian.co.uk

US military struggling to stop suicide epidemic among war veterans | World news | guardian.co.uk:" Last year, more active-duty soldiers killed themselves than died in combat. And after a decade of deployments to war zones, the Pentagon is bracing for things to get much worse"

U.S. Navy SEAL dead in Afghanistan in reported suicide | Reuters

U.S. Navy SEAL dead in Afghanistan in reported suicide | Reuters: (Reuters) - "A senior member of the U.S. Navy's elite SEAL unit has died in Afghanistan, the Defense Department said on Sunday, and media reports said the death was a possible suicide."

Bring the troops home.

Truly hairy mid-life crises: chimps and orangs get them too | Reuters

Truly hairy mid-life crises: chimps and orangs get them too | Reuters: (Reuters) - "Forty- and 50-somethings in the throes of a mid-life crisis should probably stop blaming a troubled marriage, their kid's college costs, or technology that makes them feel about as modern as papyrus compared to their younger colleagues."

BBC News - One in 10 workers has taken time off for depression

BBC News - One in 10 workers has taken time off for depression: "One in 10 workers has taken time off because of depression, a poll of 7,000 people in seven European countries has found."

"The report mirrors the results of another study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that found 20 percent of the American workforce suffers from some form of mental disorder, with depression and substance abuse being the most common, according to IndustryWeek. " Huffington Post   (my selection)

In the Age of Anxiety, are we all mentally ill? | Reuters

In the Age of Anxiety, are we all mentally ill? | Reuters: (Reuters) - "When Cynthia Craig was diagnosed with postpartum depression eight years ago, she told her family doctor she felt anxious about motherhood. She wondered whether she had made a catastrophic mistake by quitting her job, whether she could cope with the long, lonely hours stay-at-home mothers face - and even whether she should have had children."