Monday Mental Health Blogging

"Cavern carved by the sea in an ice wall," by Frank Hurley, circa 1911-1914

• Depression’s evolutionary roots: an adaptation, not a malfunction.
• The 2008 American College Health Association Survey found that 30% of college students said they had suffered from depression in the last 12 months
• In Florida, the State argues that gay people have higher rates of “domestic violence, psychiatric disorders and breakups” (none of which is true), and thus should not have the right to adopt a child.
• Ted Kennedy was instrumental to the passage of the Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008, which he called “a major breakthrough for those with mental health needs.”
• Connection found between heart disease in women with no previous warning signs (such as high blood pressure) and hopelessness:
  “What we found is, those women who reported feeling hopeless about the future or their personal goals had more thickening in the neck arteries — more atherosclerosis — which is a predictor of stroke and subsequent heart attack,” Everson-Rose said in a telephone interview.

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