Mental health treatment - we have to do better

[NationalTitles18]

I've spoken about this issue before:

 

[Crimson1967]

That was quite an impressive leap. Glad the judge wasn’t seriously injured.

 

[Bazza]

I'm not an expert but looks like Schizophrenia.

Schizophrenia - Symptoms and causes

www.mayoclinic.org

Schizophrenia is a serious mental disorder in which people interpret reality abnormally. Schizophrenia may result in some combination of hallucinations, delusions, and extremely disordered thinking and behavior that impairs daily functioning, and can be disabling.

People with schizophrenia require lifelong treatment. Early treatment may help get symptoms under control before serious complications develop and may help improve the long-term outlook.

 

[Crimson1967]

I don’t know how accurate the information is but I read that the guy who jumped in the aquarium at the Bass Pro Shop is a veteran who is suffering from mental illness.

 

[Bazza]

This is news story is making the rounds today......but not much conversation about the metal health aspects.

I get it......a lot of excitement surrounding the event itself.

I don't know enough to go any further with my comments other than to say that maybe we should have more discussion about the man's mental health issues.

Maybe we'll know more going forward...who knows........

My 2 cents.

A defendant attacked Judge Mary Kay Holthus in Clark County, Nevada. The court says Judge Holthus experienced some minor injuries and a marshal was taken to a local hospital. The court said they are reviewing security protocols after the incident. CNN reached out to Deobra Redden’s attorney for a statement but did not immediately hear back.

His issue is he's a violent a-hole.

Who has now been indicted for murder..........

Man who attacked Las Vegas judge during sentencing now indicted by a grand jury for attempted murder

A man who leaped over a judicial bench and attacked a Nevada judge during a sentencing hearing in Las Vegas last month that was captured in a courtroom video that went viral has now been indicted for ...

www.yahoo.com

 

[NationalTitles18]

'Boys are disappearing' from mental health care, as signs of depression and anxiety go undetected

While girls typically show sadness through emotions, boys’ symptoms of depression may be swept aside as “typical” teenage behavior.

www.nbcnews.com

While girls typically show sadness through emotions, boys’ symptoms of depression may be swept aside as “typical” teenage behavior.

A recent study published in the journal Pediatrics found that while antidepressant prescriptions have risen dramatically for teenage girls and women in their 20s, the rate of such prescriptions for young men “declined abruptly during March 2020 and did not recover.”

Dr. Kao-Ping Chua, a pediatrician at the Susan B. Meister Child Health Evaluation and Research Center at the University of Michigan, led the study. He said that his finding that boys weren’t accessing antidepressant medications once the pandemic hit has been “perplexing.”

“In males, it’s theoretically possible that this reflects improved mental health, but I’m struggling with that explanation,” Chua said. “Given that everybody’s mental health got worse, I would have expected that boys’ antidepressant dispensing would have at least remained stable, not decrease.”

The more likely explanation in Chua’s experience as a pediatrician, he said, was that boys stopped engaging with the health care system overall during the pandemic, leading to an underdetection and, consequently, an undertreatment of mental health problems in young men.

“There was something happening to make male adolescents not come in for mental health,” Chua said. “They didn’t go to their doctors. They skipped physicals.”

“Boys are disappearing,” he said.

What does depression look like in boys?
Boys struggling with their mental health tend to show it with a shorter fuse: They’re easily irritated, frustrated or aggressive.

“A lot of times, parents who have boys with depression say that they’re walking on eggshells around them because they don’t know what would set them off,” said Dr. Mai Uchida, a pediatric psychiatrist and director of the Child Depression Program at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Parents, pediatricians and even psychiatrists may not pick up on mental health problems in boys, Uchida said, because “they don’t fit the stereotypical image of depression.”

In addition to long-term psychotherapy and medication, Power has relied on physical outlets for his anxiety and depression. Running, he said, is key.

“Being able to run and run and run and get all of my energy out has been the most helpful thing for me,” Power said. “You sweat out all of your energy.”

 

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New type of treatment family for schizophrenia has been approved.

New drug for people with schizophrenia has experts excited

Experts expressed enthusiasm Friday after US health regulators approved the first new form of treatment for schizophrenia in decades.

medicalxpress.com

 

[Bazza]

The holidays can be a very challenging time for many.

Please try to be kind to others.

You don't know what they may be going through.......

 

[crimsonaudio]

This is good news.

The Georgia Senate approved a $409M budget addition to build a 300-bed forensic mental health hospital. It would be the state’s first new psychiatric facility in more than 60 years & is aimed at easing overcrowded jails housing people with mental health needs.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2026009165420716385