Let Me Tell You More About My Depressed, Miserable Existence
By Depressed Jane on March 3, 2009
A study of individuals presenting to an Oxfordshire hospital suggests that an increasing number of armed forces personnel are self-harming. Their self-harm appears to be in response to relationship and employment problems – with alcohol playing a major role in most cases. Little is known about self-harm in the armed forces. It is important to know more because self-harm, as well as indicating distress, is generally linked with risk of suicide.
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By Depressed Jane on March 3, 2009
Children who are unhappy at school, complain of aches and pains or skip school for trivial reasons are more likely to be permanently off work sick when they are adults, new research suggests. The research, published in the March issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry, shows a strong association between childhood temperament and sickness absence in middle age. Researchers studied over 7,100 people who were born in Aberdeen between 1950 and 1955.
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By Depressed Jane on March 3, 2009
Eight policymakers, tribal members and health care experts discussed the high rate of suicide among American Indian youth on Thursday during a Senate Committee on Indian Affairs hearing, CQ HealthBeat reports. According to Robert McSwain, director of the
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By Depressed Jane on March 3, 2009
A new study in this week´s PLoS Medicine, reports that the risk of suicide increases two to three time on young men 24 years old or less who leave the UK Armed Forces than those remaining in active service or those in the general population. In the first two years after discharge, the risk seems to increase in the men with short length of service, and those of inferior rank.
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By Depressed Jane on March 2, 2009
Everybody tends to selectively notice either good or bad events, biases that play an important role in our general reaction to stress. The current results show that a common genetic variation underlies these biases. Thus, people who carried two long alleles on the serotonin transporter gene tended to look on the bright side of life (and selectively avoided negative material), while those who carried the short allele showed a complete absence of this protective bias.
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