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- ABIL: Agoraphobics Building
Independant Lives - Agoraphobia and Panic
Disorder Foundation - Anxiety Disorders Association
of America - Anxiety Network Australia
- Anxiety-Panic.Com
- AnxietyZone
- Army Behavioral Health
- BrainPhysics - OCD
- Canadian Network for Mood
and Anxiety Treatments - Children of Hoarders
- Choices in Mental Health (UK)
- Dart Foundation: Gateway to PTSD
information - David Baldwin's
Trauma Information Pages - e-couch free personal self-help guide
- EMDR Institute, Inc.
- EMDR Network Japan
- Fear of Flying course (free)
- Healthy Minds
- Information for People with Anxiety Disorders
- Internet Guide to REBT, CBT
- Knowledge Center of the
Neuroscience Initiative - Living with a Brain Disorder
- Morita Therapy
- Mayo Clinic : Depression
- Mayo Clinic : GAD
- Mayo Clinic : OCD
- Mayo Clinic : Panic Attacks
- Mayo Clinic : PTSD
- Mayo Clinic : Social Anxiety
- Medicines.org.uk - Anxiety &
Depression guides - Mind-Your-Mind Canada
- National Center for PTSD
- National Institute of Mental
Health (NIMH) - No Such Thing As Crazy
- OCD Action, UK
- OCD Ireland
- Obsessive Compulsive Foundation
- Open Minds, Open Doors
- Out of the silence - site for young people with mental illness
- Paniccure.com
- Partners With PTSD
- Prescription Drug Information
- Psychiatric Service Dog Society
- PsychNews
- Rational Emotive Behavior
Therapy (REBT) - Sane Australia
- Shyness & Social Anxiety
Service of Australia - Social Phobia/Social Anxiety
Association - Social Anxiety Support board
- South African Depression &
Anxiety Group - Suicide Prevention Help
- tAPir - the Anxiety Panic
internet resource - The Panic Center (Free
CBT based programs) - The School of OCD
- UN-WHO Drug Trials Database
- U.S. Army Behavioral Health - PTSD
we support
"just don't smoke"
"Don't smoke, whatever you do, just don't smoke."
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Yul Brynner
- Menthol cigarettes harder to quit
- Secondhand smoke in cars serious threat to kid's health
- Lung Cancer can run in families
- Starting smoking young increases addiction risk
- Exercise helps smokers quit
- Smoking doesn't slim girls;
stunts boys' growth - Cutting down not enough, smokers must quit
- 40 reasons why you should quit smoking
- Pregnant smokers 'prime' their kids to smoke
- Smoking related coronary artery disease quickly reversed if young smokers quit
- Not ready to quit? Try cutting back
- Half smoking again within year of lung cancer surgery
- Cutting back 'compensation' increases toxin load per cigarette
- Tobacco companies upped nicotine level 11% since 1998
- Workplace passive smoke increases lung cancer risk
- Hooked by genes: The DNA sequences cigarette companies love
- Smoking causes long lasting changes to brain's bio chemistry
- Nicotine receptor stimulant trebles the odds of stopping smoking
- Bupropion, nortriptyline double chances of quitting
- Nicotine's powerful role in reinforcing smoking
- Pregnant smokers raise child's risk of stroke, heart attack
- Smoking linked to pancreatic cancer
- Neurobiology of Smokers' Cravings
- 'Low cancer risk' cigarettes as deadly as regular kind
- Quitting reduces lung cancer death risk by 70%
- Fetal nicotine exposure linked to teen attention problems
- Outdoor second-hand smoke exposure can harm
- Response to day's first cigarette predicts ease of quitting
- 'Healthy' children of smoking parents aren't really so healthy
- Children of smokers have up to five times higher levels of a nicotine toxin
- Smoking increases risk of dementia
- Smoking kills even after quitting
- Antenatal second hand smoke exposure increases child's psychological problems
- Smoking could kill 1 billion this century: WHO
- Just 1 cigarette can lead to nicotine addiction
- Smokers less likely to survive early stage lung cancer
- Smokeless tobacco delivers carcinogens more efficiently than cigarettes!
- Smoking permanently turns on genes that increase lung cancer susceptibility
- Secondhand smoke a health hazard for pets too
- Hypnosis for smoking cessation sees strong results
- Smoking doesn't burn fat
- Smoking linked to sagging breasts
- No evidence waterpipes decrease smoking harm
- Tobacco smoke + alcohol damage hearts more than either alone
anti torture campaign
- Torture experts write APA policy
- [APA] still rocked by torture debate
- Petition for psychologists
- AMA president says APA "did not accurately represent our ethical guidelines"
- Psychologists Aiding Torturers
- Annual conference endorses
APA's torture policy :( - Physicians for Human Rights call on Congress to vote No on Military Commissions Bill
- Torture is a Form of Trauma;
Trauma Causes PTSD - Psychoanalysts' association condemns torture use
- Humiliating, inhumane or degrading treatment IS torture
- Two American psychologists accused of war crimes. U.S. DoD investigating.
- DoD report proves psychologists central to POW/detainee abuse (pdf)
- 40 psychologists demand APA change policy on torture (pdf)
- Did the American Psychological Association turn a blind eye to torture for medicine precribing rights?
- Will psychologists still abet torture?
- Psychologist, Author Mary Pipher Returns APA Award Over Interrogation Policy
- Guantanamo Medical Role Likened to South Africa Under Apartheid
- The ethics of interrogation and the American Psychological Association
- A bait and switch trick on torture and psychologists?
Deputy Army Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Lt. General John (Jeff) Kimmons, has stated that no actionable intelligence had been obtained through abusive interrogation methods in the last 5 years.
monument, Monmouth County
New Jersey.
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Video interview - Helen Mayberg, MD: Deep Brain Stimulation Holds Promise for Treatment Resistant Depression
Tuesday, 6 May 2008 5:37 A GMT+01
MedPage Today interview with Dr. Mayberg about her research using Deep Brain Stimulation to treat treatment resistant depression
Depression in an evolutionary context
Tuesday, 29 April 2008 12:25 A GMT+01
Johns Hopkins: Coping With Panic Attacks
Sunday, 27 April 2008 1:32 A GMT+01
Johns Hopkins shares four strategies for managing panic attacks so they frighten you less, are less intense, and occur less frequently.
Preventing suicide: a resource for the family
Wednesday, 26 March 2008 2:21 A GMT+01
The family can play an important role in the prevention of suicide if it is capable of aiding the mental health care services in the early detection and management of family members at risk. In order to attain this goal, the whole family should be informed in how to prevent suicide.
Freedom from Fear's: On Target Winter/Spring newsletter - an anxiety & depression resource (PDF)
Thursday, 20 March 2008 12:42 A GMT+01
Produced by Freedom From Fear - http://www.freedomfromfear.org
Johns Hopkins: Mixing Wine With Antidepressants
Wednesday, 12 March 2008 10:47 P GMT+01
Is it safe to drink wine or another alcoholic beverage if you take antidepressant medication?
[USA] Think Social Networks, Blogs Can’t Hurt You? Health insurers can use your on-line posts to avoid paying for treatment
Sunday, 3 February 2008 12:05 A GMT+01
Debunking the 'Chemical Imbalance' myth (pdf)
Saturday, 26 January 2008 11:07 P GMT+01
The “Chemical Imbalance” Explanation for Depression:
Origins, Lay Endorsement, and Clinical Implications
Published last year in the journal Professional Psychology: Research and Practice this paper explores the origins of the imbalance theory and the shaky ground on which it was built.
Hat tip to Mind Hacks - www.mindhacks.com for the link
The Johns Hopkins Guide to Antidepressants (Note: requires registration of a valid email address)
Thursday, 17 January 2008 11:55 P GMT+01
The Johns Hopkins Guide to Antidepressants starts with an introduction to antidepressants, and gives clear illustrations on how the medication affects your moods. You will learn about the differences between the various classes of medications, their risks, and who is NOT a candidate for certain antidepressants.
Produced by Johns Hopkins University
Note: requires registration of a valid email address.
Not Depressed, Just British!
Thursday, 17 January 2008 2:12 A GMT+01
George Farthing, an expatriate British man living in America, was diagnosed as clinically depressed, tanked up on antidepressants, and scheduled for a controversial shock therapy when doctors realized he wasn't depressed at all, he was just British!
Hat tip to Mind Hacks http://www.mindhacks.com
'Managing Holiday Stress' a LifeCare® guide (PDF)
Sunday, 9 December 2007 10:48 P GMT+01
Filled with creative tips for reducing anxiety during this busy season, the guide addresses travel, shopping, general health, emotional issues, and much more.
How to Good-Bye Depression: If You Constrict Anus 100 Times Everyday. Malarkey? or Effective Way? [Note: This is NOT a recommendation]
Monday, 3 December 2007 1:15 A GMT+01
Da Cure from Japan, maybe, but almost certainly not.
Hat tip to Mind Hacks (http://www.mindhacks.com)
Generalized Anxiety Disorder - Patient treatment manual (pdf)
Thursday, 29 November 2007 10:59 P GMT+01
This manual is both a guide to treatment and a workbook for persons who suffer from generalized anxiety disorder. During treatment, it is a workbook in which individuals can record their own experience of their disorder, together with the additional advice for their particular case given by their clinician. After treatment has concluded, this manual will serve as a self-help resource enabling those who have recovered, but who encounter further stress or difficulties, to read the appropriate section and, by putting the content into action, stay well.
Produced by Clinical Research Unit for Anxiety Disorders
St. Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney, Australia
Understanding post-traumatic stress disorder
Monday, 19 November 2007 10:59 P GMT+01
Produced by MIND, UK
Most People are Optimists - Except for Lawyers
Saturday, 17 November 2007 3:00 A GMT+01
The Army's Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (PTSD/MTBI) Chain Teaching Program
Friday, 16 November 2007 11:34 P GMT+01
Link to information about the program and download links
Cannabis, the mind and society: the hash realities (PDF - free reg. req'd)
Monday, 5 November 2007 2:12 A GMT+01
Cannabis has been known for at least 4,000 years to have profound effects on the mind - effects that have provoked dramatically divergent attitudes towards it. Some societies have regarded cannabis as a sacred boon for mankind that offers respite from the tribulations of everyday life, whereas others have demonized it as inevitably leading to 'reefer madness'. The debate between the protagonists and prohibitionists has recently been re-ignited, but unfortunately this debate continues mainly in ignorance of our new understanding of the effects of cannabis on the brain and of studies that have quantified the extent of the risks of long-term use.
The Role of Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies in the Treatment of Insomnia
Friday, 2 November 2007 3:50 A GMT+01
Explores the use of CBT to treat long term sleep disorders
Have you outsourced your brain?
Wednesday, 31 October 2007 2:54 A GMT+01
Interesting article
Hat tip to the All in the Mind blog - http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/26/opinion/26brooks.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Therapy Watch: Should I See a He or a She?
Saturday, 27 October 2007 1:00 A GMT+01
How to choose a therapist. Are you better served by a male or female therapist?
Depression and anxiety: Exercise eases symptoms
Wednesday, 24 October 2007 11:33 P GMT+01
Advice and tips on using exercise to ease anxiety, and depression
Need to know - prescribing antidepressants
Wednesday, 24 October 2007 12:45 A GMT+01
Beginning our depression special report, Professor Linda Gask answers questions from GP Dr Linden Ruckert
Mental Health in a Changing World: The Impact of Culture and Diversity (pdf)
Thursday, 11 October 2007 4:21 A GMT+01
A World Federation for Mental Health report on how culture influences mental health including how individuals from a given culture communicate and manifest their symptoms, their style of coping, their family and community supports, and their willingness to seek treatment.
Omega medicine? Is fish oil good for what ails you? (pdf)
Wednesday, 10 October 2007 5:26 A GMT+01
A t fi rst, the omega-3 fats in fi sh oil were only supposed
to prevent sudden death heart attacks.
But in the last few years, experts have looked at
omega-3s and asthma, cancer, the aging brain, dementia,
neurological diseases, diabetes, infl ammatory bowel
disease, rheumatoid arthritis, kidney disease, lupus,
osteoporosis, eye health, mental health, and more.
From the Nutrition Action Healthletter, a publication of the Center for Science in the Public Interest - http://www.cspinet.org/nah/index.htm
The Mind and the Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force
Sunday, 23 September 2007 11:58 P GMT+01
In The Mind and the Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force, neuropsychiatrist Jeffrey Schwartz, M.D., and veteran science journalist Sharon Begley argue that behavioral changes can induce a degree of neuroplasticity that may actually aid in the treatment of a condition like obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Their case is embedded in a wonderful review of advances in understanding brain plasticity, a tour with side trips to the worlds of physics and philosophy.