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...University of North Carolina (UNC) and Emory University have been integrating anonymous online surveys into the process of screening students for depression in the past two years. This move was motivated largely by the perceived inadequacies in current mental health support for college students across the nation. In a survey conducted by the Association for University and College Counseling Center Directors, only 31 students out of the 161 students who committed suicide at 333 colleges sought mental-health treatment on their campus. Currently, Harvard has not chosen to adopt this method, but Director of Behavioral Health and Academic Counseling Paul...
...citizen several years ago. "He was very American," says Louis Gunther, whose house is directly across the street from Alpizar's. "He loved it here. He has a flag up in his backyard all the time." But Gunther and other neighbors say they were not aware of Alpizar's mental disorder, which does not surprise some mental-health experts. About 2.3 million Americans have bipolar disorder, a condition in which a person's mood can swing from depression to euphoria. But "there is still a stigma about saying 'I have a mental illness,'" says William Pollack, a psychologist at McLean...
...antics—from being drugged to fending off the advances of an overeager pair of prostitutes—provide most of the play’s humor. Kulz is more than up to the task of portraying Brian’s increasingly ridiculous actions and deranged mental state. The problem, however, with having one character carry most of the burden of hysteria is that the other characters are, to some extent, straight-men, all trying to behave reasonably. The play suffers when everybody is trying to hold it together and succeeding. During these stretches, the humor is mostly derived...
...oats again. Others doubt whether Europe's current crisis-laden leadership has the clout and vision necessary to deliver any viable solutions. "The European integration process is in a very different place now to 10 or 20 years ago, and I don't think many people have made the mental leap needed to reflect that," says Mark Leonard, director of foreign policy at the cer and author of Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century. "We now have a single currency, a common foreign and security policy, and an external relations impact on places like the Balkans and Iran...
...blame the air marshals for what happened, he says. "When the air marshal left the plane, I didn't see a crystal ball in his hand to say what this guy's mental condition was," he says. And it's not Alpizar's fault either, he says. "I firmly believe that if that man had the mental capacity to stop and surrender his bag and cooperate, he'd be alive today...