Word: mentalism
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Castro: At that time the U.S. and Cuba will be friends. The awareness of the need for peace will have made great strides, and the so-called embargoes by you and by us would have disappeared-- out of mental illness--out of stupidity, it will disappear...
Over the past several months, psychiatrist James Barbee has witnessed a disturbing trend among his patients in New Orleans - a noticeable slide from post-Katrina anxiety to more serious, and harder to treat, cases of major depression. At the same time, the city?s system for dealing with mental health care is suffering a major breakdown of its own. "People are just wearing down," says Barbee. "There was an initial spirit about bouncing back and recovering, but it's diminished over time, as weeks have become months...
...Nearly one year after Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast, killing more than 1,300 and displacing thousands more, frustration over the slow pace of recovery is taking a toll on the region's overall mental health. Initially, complaints reflected what some locals have dubbed "Katrina Brain": general fatigue brought on by the disruption of their lives, difficulty concentrating, mood swings, and mild depression. In most cases, it was nothing that reached critical levels. But since the first of the year, Barbee says, "there's been a steady increase in depression, specifically major depression." Worse, he adds, there...
...breakdown, both among residents and the health care system needed to treat them. Barbee and his co-authors - psychiatrists Mark Townsend, also of LSUHSC, and Richard Weisler, of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - pull together data that, collectively, provide a bleak snapshot of the city?s mental health condition as it approaches the storm's one-year anniversary...
...insanity because she was fully aware that her actions were wrong. But Yates' lawyers claimed severe postpartum psychosis made her so delusional that she thought the drownings were right. After 12 hours of deliberation, the jury sided with the defense. Following the verdict, Yates was committed to a state mental hospital...