LONDON, July 27, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- This month Journal of Mental Health features a special issue on diagnosing mental illness. The issue - which comes out just weeks after the eagerly-awaited new draft of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), the global diagnostic 'bible' for the field of mental health medicine - includes a series of articles written by high profile mainstream personalities on what a diagnosis of mental illness has meant to them. Best-selling British author Sir Terry Pratchett, former prime ministers of Australia and Norway, memoirist Mark Vonnegut (son of Kurt Vonnegut Jr.) and some of the world's top mental health experts are among the line-up of writers featured. "Our j...
Annual Welcome Back Awards Program Honors Individuals for Tremendous Contributions to the Depression Community
INDIANAPOLIS, May 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Despite years of debilitating depression, multiple psychiatric hospitalizations and episodes of homelessness, Joseph Rogers refused to let mental illness and an unlucky adolescence blot out his potential imprint on the world.
The Many Community Mental Health Services Available to You
Well developed and well managed community mental health services are actually associated with low suicide rates Hence, mental health services for the masses can be improved by focusing on the community based and specialized mental health services
