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Borderline Personality Disorder Depression Cutting BPD Mental Illness Help Excuses Healthcare Mon, 29 Dec 2008 09:56:38 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-796-Mental-Health-Issues-Examiner~y2008m12d29-Emotional-hemophelia-Understanding-Borderline-Personality-Disorder?cid=exrss-Mental-Health-Issues-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-796-Mental-Health-Issues-Examiner~y2008m12d17-Texas-accused-of-Warehousing-mentally-disabled-population?cid=exrss-Mental-Health-Issues-Examiner Thirteen state hospitals house over 5,000 patientsIn the past forty years, most states determined that psychiatric institutions or as they were once known “Insane Asylums” have been abolished as a psychiatric model. In the 1960s a mass d... 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SAD Light Therapy Seasonal Affective Disorder Thu, 04 Dec 2008 10:40:50 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-796-Mental-Health-Issues-Examiner~y2008m12d4-What-you-should-know-about-light-boxes?cid=exrss-Mental-Health-Issues-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-796-Mental-Health-Issues-Examiner~y2008m12d1-Light-Therapy-for-the-LowLight-Months?cid=exrss-Mental-Health-Issues-Examiner Seasonal Affective Disorder effects millions of AmericansWith still twenty days until the shortest day of the year, the sun already setting around 4:45 in the afternoon, you may find it more difficult to get out of bed in the morning or find that ten... SAD Light Therapy Seasonal Affective Disorder Mon, 01 Dec 2008 10:13:08 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-796-Mental-Health-Issues-Examiner~y2008m12d1-Light-Therapy-for-the-LowLight-Months?cid=exrss-Mental-Health-Issues-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-796-Mental-Health-Issues-Examiner~y2008m11d24-Webcam-Suicides-the-new-Kitty-Genovese?cid=exrss-Mental-Health-Issues-Examiner Kitty Genovese Case, All Over Again   On Tuesday night of last week, a 19 year old boy from Florida, trained a webcam on himself, took a handful of pills after posting a suicide note, and was pronounced dead 10 hours later.   In the interi... Mental Health Suicide Depression Kitty Genovese Webcam Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:14:55 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-796-Mental-Health-Issues-Examiner~y2008m11d24-Webcam-Suicides-the-new-Kitty-Genovese?cid=exrss-Mental-Health-Issues-Examiner