The damp summer may have made us all miserable, but research suggests it is hot weather that poses a far more serious problem for vulnerable people. A team from London’s Institute of Psychiatry found that suicide rates go up during hot weather. Analysis of more than 50,000 suicides in England and Wales between 1993 and [...]
Nearly 30 percent of Americans need mental health care but only about a third of them receive it, researchers say. Reporting in the March issue of the journal Psychiatric Services, researchers interviewed 816 people in Baltimore between 1993 and 1999. They found that the most common conditions requiring treatment were alcohol dependence (14 percent) and [...]
Experts describe the physical and mental signs that may indicate emotional distress. Maybe you’re having that proverbial “bad day” – or perhaps a rough few weeks: Feeling down, anxious, overstressed, as if you’re one breath away from the “last straw.” If so, you may be surprised to learn it’s quite common; doctors say it’s part [...]
