Word: mental
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...Randolphe Catlin, chief of mental health at University Health Services (UHS), says that the academic calendar influences periods of peak depression. Catlin says approximately 300 students have called the free UHS depression screening hot line this year, and of that group about 30 were diagnosed as clinically depressed...
...Lewinsky affair, the motion filed in a Little Rock courtroom Wednesday may come as a relief. Judicial Watch, Inc., a public interest group, asked a federal judge to make public Clinton?s sworn deposition in the Paula Jones case -- on the grounds that it calls the President?s mental state into question. ?If the allegations are true, the President's emotional stability as commander-in-chief may be at issue during a period when serious crises loom in the Persian Gulf and elsewhere,? the motion read. Such legal efforts may be akin to a snowball in hell, but one thing...
...schools. Some parents who have resorted to such programs say their intensive boot camp-style approach has been the crucial factor in turning around their troubled children's lives. But critics charge that many of the camps hold children prisoner, inflict what they consider to be physical and mental abuse--and sometimes cause death...
Eighner is far from a conventional deadbeat. He was in his early 40s before he ever became homeless, and he has worked at many jobs, including a mostly steady decade of work at a state mental hospital. Since Travels with Lizbeth, he has published a novel, a book of essays and several books of gay erotica. He continues to write for a number of Texas publications, which brings in $100 to $300 a month. His Web page, which he designed and built himself, bristles with entrepreneurialism in its offers to sell books and give online writing courses. It's hard...
Grove believes "only the paranoid survive." My dictionary defines paranoia as a chronic mental disorder characterized by delusions of persecution and of one's own greatness. Poor Grove. He would have us believe that our competitive free-enterprise system works only if one is emotionally sick. ROBERT ROSS Hendersonville...