Article: Mental illness not shrinking

Article: COLUMN: Mental illness portrayal often negative in ...
University Wire;  November 12, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... media portrayal and exploitation of mental illness was inevitable. A persistent and damaging ... perception is that all individuals with a mental illness are violent. The Virginia Tech tragedy ... mother who possibly suffers from a mental illness. One headline read "Baby dies after ...

Article: Mental illness and the demand for alcohol, cocaine, ...
Economic Inquiry;  April 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... reports that the indirect costs of mental illness were $79 billion in 1990, and in ... spent $69 billion on treatment of mental illness. Also, about 112,000 deaths in ... least $50 billion per year. Both mental illness and the consumption of addictive goods ...

Article: Mental illness and the dental patient.(CE Course)
Journal of Dental Hygiene;  June 22, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... one in five Americans will have a mental illness and about one in three will have a mental illness at some time in their life. For most ... chronic condition. Common as it is, mental illness is often unrecognized and misunderstood ...

Article: MENTAL ILLNESS AND THE DEMAND FOR ALCOHOL, COCAINE, ...
Economic Inquiry;  April 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... estimates the effect of mental illness on demand for addictive ... and simultaneity between mental illness and addictive consumption ... individuals with a history of mental illness are 26% more likely to ...

Article: Mental illness stigma: problem of public health or ...
Social Work;  October 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... highlighted the public health impact of mental illness stigma. Using a medical model, several ... effect on public health by describing mental illness as a disease of the brain that can ... useful for reducing blame related to mental illness. Unfortunately, such public health ...

Article: Mental illness prolific among college students.
Mental Health Weekly Digest;  October 11, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... NewsRx.net) -- Due to a high rate of mental illness found among the college population ... parents to talk to their children about mental illness before college and maintain an open ... Laboratories, which found a high incidence of mental illness among the college age population ...

Article: Migration, Mental Illness and Terry Watada's The ...
Journal of Canadian Studies;  October 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... plays that educate audiences about mental illness and destabilize representations that ... multiculturalism, immigration, and mental illness in Canada. The eponymous mask of the ... argues, acts as an enigmatic symbol for mental illness read differently by different cultures ...