Finals are over, and I’m back! — for a day or two, anyway.
Check out my final project to see what I’d do with Millennial Mind if I had a million dollars (or two).
Here are some other links for your spring-break-reading pleasure:
- Study finds teen girls with ADHD are more likely to develop eating disorders.
- Jim […]

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The worse a war goes, the worse the people fighting in it feel — and vice versa.
So says a new Army study. Troops in Afghanistan reported lower morale as fighting there got worse, while troops in Iraq reported better morale. But altogether, people were more likely to show mental strain the longer they were deployed.
This […]

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In recognition of Women’s History Month in March, here’s a gender-specific look at mental illness.
According to the federal government’s Office on Women’s Health, many women are in a bad place psychologically:
Women suffer twice as often as men by most forms of depression and anxiety disorders, and nine times as often by eating disorders.
Some of that […]

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I love dogs.
My family has two — a pug/Boston terrier mix named Rosie and a fluffy mutt named Pixie.
They can get annoying sometimes, like when they follow you all around the house or constantly bark to be let outside. But they’re also great faithful friends, showing appreciation just for scratching or petting them.
Various studies have […]

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To find out more about mental-health issues facing Iraq and Afghanistan veterans, I interviewed John Bair, a clinical psychologist at the North Chicago Veterans Hospital.
(Full disclosure: He also happens to be my cousin’s father-in-law.)
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Q: What age groups do you mainly work […]

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The Chicago Tribune Magazine shares the story of a twentysomething Chicago man who joined the Army, served in Iraq as a medic, came back with severe post-traumatic stress disorder and went AWOL.
Eugene Cherry says he got minimal mental-health care during his time in Iraq. He had to skip appointments with military doctors when missions came […]

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Here’s another potential cause of many mental illnesses and other conditions: traumatic brain injuries.
Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York found that many people who suffered a major blow to the head later struggled with addiction, learning disabilities, memory loss and depression.
The good news is that they responded well to therapy for […]

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Psychological struggles among veterans after they return from war are nothing new. In World War I, doctors first used the term “shell shock” to describe the anxiety and debilitating panic that struck troops who fought among heavy artillery fire in Europe. Some soldiers got to leave the fighting to recover, but others were sent back […]

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