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Rodman Apologizes For Comments On Jailed American
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Question by jetrose2000: How can we as an nation abolish mental health issue’s?
Is their anything under way that may be looking some what promising? In order to get rid of mental health issue’s? Mishigan is so full of people how need help from big hosptal reacher leaders in this feeld

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Answer by Az rastaman
Yea we could spend some money trying to help these people . Reagan virtually ended the free mental health system in this country . And we wonder why there are so many homeless with mental issues , they can’t get any real help without insurance .

Answer by LemonTea
People (including those who are professionals in the field of mental health) need to first consider whether too many people are being diagnosed with disorders when – really – they may either just be unhappy or else have emotional problems that could mimick certain mental health conditions. In other words, people are being over-diagnosed at least to some degree these days.

Also, a whole lot of mental health conditions are related to people using alcohol and/or drugs.

I’ve always thought there should be some simple book handed out to new mothers about some of the most basic ways of making a baby feel secure and talking to children; because when children get the right, solid, nurturing when they’re little (and throughout their childhoods) they are often more able to deal with some things that may cause someone not as strong to develop mental health problems.

Schools need to gain a better understanding of two things: 1) How to create an optimum environment in the group setting in order to improve the “overall picture” when it comes to how hundreds of individuals feel during the school day and 2) How not to overestimate children’s/teen’s emotional maturity and how not to underestimate their intellectual maturity and needs. There are ways some things could be restructured or otherwise changed so that all kids felt more a part of the school and fewer kids would have any tendency they have to be different made worse by how the school does things.

Courts need to stop running roughshod over people who go there to get a divorce. There can be complete disregard for one party or another, and there can be complete disregard for whether both parents are able to work and be financial and emotional support for the children. As a result, one or both parents may be so grief-stricken and stressed out at watching their children suffer the parents may get depression or anxiety or even resort to substance abuse in some cases. The children can suffer from depression because their parents have been prevented from remaining solid and properly supportive (financially, but sometimes emotionally as well).

People need to understand how stress in one’s life (particularly long-term and/or extreme stress) leads to elevated cortisol levels, which can lead to inability to concentrate and/or feeling exhausted. If there were more awareness of this there may be a better effort to solving what causes the stress rather than treating a person’s “unhappiness” or inability to concentrate as if it is depression.

State agencies administering assistance programs need to be aware of the above as well, and need to put less emphasis on assuming that people with money problems MUST need job training. If state programs were more aimed at getting a person’s situation improved to the point where there was less destructive stress people would be more able to find work (and training if necessary) for themselves. State programs often miss the root of the problem and focus instead on either making sure people have food (reasonable enough) or have job training available.

I would like to see the Federal Government put out some guidelines (not rules or policies, just well-founded, sound, guidelines) about what is healthy in a family environment and what isn’t. These guidelines could be made available to anyone dealing with families, schools, children, etc.; and should emphasize what is emotional nurturing and what is destructive in families.

Companies that employ people in non-prestigious jobs (particularly non-prestigious jobs in particular) need to establish a policy of treating these people with more respect (rather than as if they’re “nothing”), but they also need to expect more in terms of a higher quality performance. In other words, this type of work needs to be seen as being valued, respected, but also its own type of “professional”. The work needs to be valued but the workers also need to be valued. As it is, neither the work nor the workers is valued in many cases.

The mental health profession should, perhaps, divide into two categories – people dealing with mental illness and people dealing with helping non-mentally-ill people going through “life situations”, which would include things as normal as an ok life with too much destructive stress.

It also seems to me that the mental health profession and other professions need to have a greater awareness of the “ok-ness” of most people and focus on things in that person’s life that may be contributing to a condition that may look like mental health problems rather than just put a band-aid on things by suggesting anti-depressants when the person’s “depression” would be eliminated if the root of the problem were addressed.

Mental health professionals went into the field (often) because they wanted to help people with mental health problems. They spent time and money getting training about mental health conditions. There is the chance that some mental health professionals may have a sublte emotional investment in believing there is illness or something wrong with a client rather than focusing on what is wrong around the client.

There should be some kind of campaign to educate people about the fact that listening to too much depressing/violent music or watching too much depressing/violent/otherwise non-redeeming-value movies/television is not nurturing to people’s souls and may contribute to an overall negative image of the world.

I don’t know whether there is anything promising “out there”, but the above is what I sincerely believe is needed on a national level in order to reduce the overwhelming numbers of people with mental health issues.

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Charity helps drug addicts recover by teaching them to scuba dive
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Question by James: Will short term memory from weed last forever?
Im a 14 year old kid im really scared i tried weed once like one puff and now im freaking out i have really bad anxiety alot of people tell me it from that but i dont know i worry about illnesses and stuff what i do is think back to like yesterday then i forget something that happened yesterday and i freak out will this last forever when i think about it that it will last forever and my anxiety i think i should just kill myself and all my worries will go away Thanks James

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Answer by KauaiChrons
It’s just short-term, you’re freaking yourself over nothing. However stay away from it you’re way too young, it’s not good on the developing brain. Coping skills is just one of the things you will lack if you continue to smoke weed. This is long term scientific studies recently collected, and was tested with ADULTS, but you should be more educated about marijuana:

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Analysis of Studies Finds Little Effect From Long-Term Use
By Sid Kirchheimer
WebMD Health News
July 1, 2003 — Long-term and even daily marijuana use doesn’t appear to cause permanent brain damage, adding to evidence that it can be a safe and effective treatment for a wide range of diseases, say researchers.
The researchers found only a “very small” impairment in memory and learning among long-term marijuana users. Otherwise, scores on thinking tests were similar to those who don’t smoke marijuana, according to a new analysis of 15 previous studies.
In those studies, some 700 regular marijuana users were compared with 484 non-users on various aspects of brain function — including reaction time, language and motor skills, reasoning ability, memory, and the ability to learn new information.

Surprising Finding:
“We were somewhat surprised by our finding, especially since there’s been a controversy for some years on whether long-term cannabis use causes brain damage,” says lead researcher and psychiatrist Igor Grant, MD.
“I suppose we expected to see some differences in people who were heavy users, but in fact the differences were very minimal.”
The marijuana users in those 15 studies — which lasted between three months to more than 13 years — had smoked marijuana several times a week or month or daily. Still, researchers say impairments were less than what is typically found from using alcohol or other drugs.

Source: ( http://www.bioedonline.org/news/news.cfm… )
Many drugs, such as heroin, cocaine and alcohol, inhibit the growth of new cells in the hippocampus, which scientists believe could emotionally destabilize addicts. Understanding how drugs affect the hippocampus may have a critical role in treating addiction.Neuropsychologist Xia Zhang and a team of researchers based at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Canada, aimed to find out just how marijuana-like drugs, known collectively as cannabinoids, act on the brain.

The researchers injected rats with HU210, a synthetic drug that is about one-hundred times as powerful as THC, the high-inducing compound naturally found in marijuana. They then used a chemical tracer to watch new cells growing in the hippocampus.

They found that HU210 seemed to induce new brain cell growth, just as some antidepressant drugs do, they report in the Journal of Clinical Investigation. This suggests that they could potentially be used to reduce anxiety and depression, Zhang says. He adds that the research might help to create new cannabinoid-based treatments.

“I think it’s a very exciting study,” says Amelia Eisch, an addiction researcher at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. “It makes marijuana look more like an antidepressant and less like a drug of abuse.”

Legalized marijuana: Colorado kids are paying the price
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Colorado Teen Addiction Centers Gear Up for Legal Pot
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