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“Mental Illness: The Movie” doesn’t quite sound like the summer blockbuster that many people go to film school with the dream of making. But filmmaker Bud Clayton has stepped out from behind the camera to give the world a look into his mind in his new documentary “OC87: The Obsessive Compulsive, Major Depressive, Bipolar, Asperger’s [...]

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has long been the scourge of our heroes in uniform. By some estimates, 20% of soldiers return from serving in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with PTSD. In the current world climate, where soldiers often serve three tours of duty on top of each other, PTSD is becoming an even [...]

The news has been abuzz lately with talk of “Bath Salts”. Though they may sound like a companion to a relaxing evening at home, these Bath Salts can cause violent rampages. Bath salts, a new synthetic drug, have been compared to LSD and can provide dangerous feelings of invincibility. The designer drug is being touted [...]

There is a famous story in Genesis of two brothers, Cain and Abel. Cain, motivated by jealousy slays his brother. When God asks Cain where his brother is, Cain replies “I don’t know. Am I my brother’s keeper?” Though God doesn’t answer Cain directly, His judgment on Cain clearly implies that we are our brother’s [...]

None of the students at Oikos University, a private unaccredited Christian institution in Oakland, Ca, could have ever imagined that their small, quiet school would end up as home to one of the most brutal shootouts in Oakland’s history. In an act of incomprehensible brutality, One L. Goh, a former nursing student, opened fire in [...]

The family of former NFL linebacker Junior Seau is considering donating his brain to further research football-related injuries, following Seau’s recent suicide. It is believed that Seau’s decision to end his life with a gunshot to the chest was, at least partially, due to chronic traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) sustained during 20 seasons playing professional [...]

Though many bulimics engage in binging and purging behavior in order to control weight-gain, a new study shows that bulimia actually tends to cause women to gain weight rather than lose it. The study, led by Drexel University, shows that women hit their highest weights while engaging in bulimic behaviors such as laxative abuse and [...]

Some exciting new technological solutions are going to hopefully make it easy to diagnose and deliver care to individuals struggling with mental health issues. The innovations, which include a mental health kiosk and mobile phone apps will hopefully make it easier for patients to get the help that they need. When many people think of [...]