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The Role of Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies in the Treatment of Insomnia
Have you outsourced your brain?
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- Agoraphobia
- Anxiety 2 Calm
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Anxious Living : An Exploration
into Social Anxiety - Dare to Dream
- Dear Tobacco
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Dr. Deborah Serani's:
Psychological Perspectives - Fast Weight Loss?
- Finding the Confidence
- GNIF Brain Blogger
- Legacy of War
- Mental Health Minutes
- My Brain: My Friend, My Enemy
- My Wife Has Agoraphobia!
- Neurophilosophy
- Out of the silence - site for young people with mental illness
- PTSD Combat
- The Happiness Guy
- The Last Psychiatrist
- The Trouble With Spikol
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WebMD: Anxiety and
Stress Management - We Worry: A Blog for the Anxious
recommended links
Depression Is Real Coalition
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ABIL: Agoraphobics Building
Independant Lives -
Agoraphobia and Panic
Disorder Foundation -
Anxiety Disorders Association
of America - Anxiety Network Australia
- Anxiety-Panic.Com
- AnxietyZone
- Army Behavioral Health
- BrainPhysics - OCD
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Canadian Network for Mood
and Anxiety Treatments - Children of Hoarders
- Choices in Mental Health (UK)
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Dart Foundation: Gateway to PTSD
information -
David Baldwin's
Trauma Information Pages - EMDR Institute, Inc.
- EMDR Network Japan
- Fear of Flying course (free)
- Healthy Minds
- Information for People with Anxiety Disorders
- Internet Guide to REBT, CBT
- Living with a Brain Disorder
- Morita Therapy
- Mayo Clinic : Depression
- Mayo Clinic : GAD
- Mayo Clinic : OCD
- Mayo Clinic : Panic Attacks
- Mayo Clinic : PTSD
- Mayo Clinic : Social Anxiety
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Medicines.org.uk - Anxiety &
Depression guides - Mind-Your-Mind Canada
- National Center for PTSD
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National Institute of Mental
Health (NIMH) - No Such Thing As Crazy
- OCD Action, UK
- OCD Ireland
- Obsessive Compulsive Foundation
- Open Minds, Open Doors
- Out of the silence - site for young people with mental illness
- Paniccure.com
- Partners With PTSD
- Prescription Drug Information
- Psychiatric Service Dog Society
- PsychNews
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Rational Emotive Behavior
Therapy (REBT) - Sane Australia
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Shyness & Social Anxiety
Service of Australia -
Social Phobia/Social Anxiety
Association - Social Anxiety Support board
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South African Depression &
Anxiety Group - Suicide Prevention Help
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tAPir - the Anxiety Panic
internet resource -
The Panic Center (Free
CBT based programs) - The School of OCD
- UN-WHO Drug Trials Database
- U.S. Army Behavioral Health - PTSD
"just don't smoke"
Yul Brynner
- Menthol cigarettes harder to quit
- Secondhand smoke in cars serious threat to kid's health
- Starting smoking young increases addiction risk
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Smoking doesn't slim girls;
stunts boys' growth - 40 reasons why you should quit smoking
- Pregnant smokers 'prime' their kids to smoke
- Smoking related coronary artery disease quickly reversed if young smokers quit
- Not ready to quit? Try cutting back
- Half smoking again within year of lung cancer surgery
- Cutting back 'compensation' increases toxin load per cigarette
- Tobacco companies upped nicotine level 11% since 1998
- Workplace passive smoke increases lung cancer risk
- Hooked by genes: The DNA sequences cigarette companies love
- Smoking causes long lasting changes to brain's bio chemistry
- Nicotine receptor stimulant trebles the odds of stopping smoking
- Bupropion, nortriptyline double chances of quitting
- Nicotine's powerful role in reinforcing smoking
- Pregnant smokers raise child's risk of stroke, heart attack
- Smoking linked to pancreatic cancer
- Neurobiology of Smokers' Cravings
- 'Low cancer risk' cigarettes as deadly as regular kind
- Quitting reduces lung cancer death risk by 70%
- Fetal nicotine exposure linked to teen attention problems
- Outdoor second-hand smoke exposure can harm
- Response to day's first cigarette predicts ease of quitting
- 'Healthy' children of smoking parents aren't really so healthy
- Children of smokers have up to five times higher levels of a nicotine toxin
- Smoking increases risk of dementia
- Smoking kills even after quitting
- Antenatal second hand smoke exposure increases child's psychological problems
- Smoking could kill 1 billion this century: WHO
- Just 1 cigarette can lead to nicotine addiction
- Smokers less likely to survive early stage lung cancer
- Smokeless tobacco delivers carcinogens more efficiently than cigarettes!
- Smoking permanently turns on genes that increase lung cancer susceptibility
- Secondhand smoke a health hazard for pets too
- Hypnosis for smoking cessation sees strong results
- Smoking doesn't burn fat
- Smoking linked to sagging breasts
anti torture campaign
- Torture experts write APA policy
- [APA] still rocked by torture debate
- Petition for psychologists
- AMA president says APA "did not accurately represent our ethical guidelines"
- Psychologists Aiding Torturers
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Annual conference endorses
APA's torture policy :( - Physicians for Human Rights call on Congress to vote No on Military Commissions Bill
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Torture is a Form of Trauma;
Trauma Causes PTSD - Psychoanalysts' association condemns torture use
- Humiliating, inhumane or degrading treatment IS torture
- Two American psychologists accused of war crimes. U.S. DoD investigating.
- DoD report proves psychologists central to POW/detainee abuse (pdf)
- 40 psychologists demand APA change policy on torture (pdf)
- Did the American Psychological Association turn a blind eye to torture for medicine precribing rights?
- Will psychologists still abet torture?
- Psychologist, Author Mary Pipher Returns APA Award Over Interrogation Policy
- Guantanamo Medical Role Likened to South Africa Under Apartheid
Deputy Army Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Lt. General John (Jeff) Kimmons, has stated that no actionable intelligence had been obtained through abusive interrogation methods in the last 5 years.
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[Sth Korea] 22% of middle-aged suffer Depression
By Bae Ji-sook
Depression is becoming a key issue in society as more people are looking to learn about the condition after hearing that it was one of the reasons behind pop singer Yuni's suicide on Jan. 21.
The daily Medical Today said yesterday that depression is considered one of the more serious conditions or illnesses people can suffer from _ more so than even cancer _ since the news broke out.
Moreover, a report showed that more and more Koreans are suffering from some form of depression. The Korea Labor Institute said a survey of 10,225 men and women aged 45 or over during the July-December period last year showed that more than 22 percent of respondents suffered from depression.
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©2007 The Korea Times
For many years American Drug Companies have promoted the idea that depression is a disease in order to sell antidepressants. Depression is a natural and normal part of the human condition and a symptom that something is not right in our lives. It is a mistake to "treat" depression without trying to understand why it is there in the first place.
Depression is a natural and normal part of the human condition
I wonder if the families of the 12-15% of depressives who take their lives would agree with you.
It is a mistake to "treat" depression without trying to understand why it is there in the first place.
Most cases of depression (and anxiety disorders) develop within a year of a significant life event, a bereavement or a life threatening illness (of self, family or friend), divorce, job loss/change, moving house, major disasters like 9/11, etc.
Knowing what triggered the depression does not seem to help. Nor does years of kicking over the ashes of one's life in psycho analysis. Psycho therapies that do have good track records, mostly the cognitive/behavioral based ones, do not concentrate on the why but focus on ways of dealing with the now.
Korea is one messed up country. Korean society has gotten to the point where every Korean girl believes they can become the next 'U-nee' or 'Kim Hye Sun' simply through plastic surgery. Every Korean girl literally believes they are one visit to the plastic surgeon away from becoming the next 'super-talent', but what they don't realize is that all the fame and glory in the world will never fill that cavern of insecurity in their heart.
It shames me as a fellow Korean to know that Korean women, who are arguably the most beautiful women in the world and definitely in all of Asia, have to cheapen themselves in such a way and not be happy with themselves as the 'whole person' and not just 'the face'. It is truly sad. My prayers go to Lee Hye Ryun (U-nee) who by the sounds of it was a wonderful, sweet girl who fell victim to the vicious whims of the Korean public.
Koreans are blunt and even callous people even to people they meet the first time. If you are an beautiful girl, people will tell you straight away as soon as they meet you and you will be put on a pedestal at a young age and groomed as a 'gongju' or 'princess'. Unfortunately, if you aren't that attractive people couldn't care less about you. If a Korean notices that you have gained a little weight, they will tell it to your face, even if they don't know you that well. Can you imagine Westerners doing that? It is unthinkable.
That is why Korea is a country of extremes and that is why you have a lot insecure and quite a few mentally unstable women in Korea who think a little surgery will change everything. Korea is a country of haves and have nots from more than just an socio-economic perspective. If you are pretty, you'll get it all; the rich husband and the pampered life. If you are ugly, then you get the scraps and are thankful to get a job as a clerk in the bedding section of a department store.
I truly hope these celebrity suicides will have a lasting sobering effect on Korean society, but I'm not kidding myself. As Western influences continue tear away at the fabric of Korean culture and values, Korean youth will find it all the more difficult in defining itself, just as the youth of Japan have experienced.