Word: mentality
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Depression is as much a thinking problem as it is a mood problem,” a psychiatry professor told students at a discussion last night intended to reduce stigma about mental illness. Paul J. Barreira, director of Behavioral Health and Academic Counseling for University Health Services, met with students in the Lowell House Junior Common Room yesterday for an information session called “Mental Illness 101.” The discussion dealt with general definitions of mental illnesses, but did not extensively address their prevalence in a college setting or delineate the mental health resources currently available...
...Harvard played a team not ranked in nation’s top 20.The Crimson held on for the victory after allowing Holy Cross within a single goal with just 85 seconds left in the game, but the late letdown—as well as a number of penalties and mental mistakes—put a damper on the otherwise successful afternoon.“That is just mental laziness,” Harvard coach Scott Anderson said of the numerous mistakes. In addition to 17 turnovers in the game’s final three quarters, the Crimson also committed eight...
...that he would come out of his shell sooner or later. "I told her he was just shy and had a soft personality." However, she says that other relatives were less optimistic about his shortcomings and reportedly saw his aloofness as dysfunctional and a telltale sign of a looming mental problem...
...Long before this week's horrifying events at Virginia Tech, the rewriting of Virginia's commitment laws was already a major focus of a yearlong study of the state's mental health laws launched last fall by Leroy R. Hassell Sr., the chief justice of the Virginia State Supreme Court. Zdanowicz, who serves on the task force, said the chief justice had become concerned that the criminal justice system was, in effect, becoming the state's mental health care system, where jails are poor substitutes for failing and too few mental health care facilities. The Cho shootings will bring even...
...Presidential campaign gets off to a fast, early start, the notion of tweaking the mental health laws rather than pushing gun control legislation in vain has its obvious appeal, particularly among centrist Democrats who are hesitant to alienate the gun lobby in key battleground states. In the wake of the Virginia Tech massacre none other than former President Bill Clinton, who in the past has blamed some national Democratic party losses on the gun control debate, has added his voice to a chorus of others this week calling for a different approach. When Larry King asked Clinton Thursday about...