A “Creepy” Art Therapy Activity for Halloween

http://www.arttherapyblog.com/ It’s that time of year again, when the air and leaves are crisp. It’s a colorful time for many and winter is fast-approaching. Halloween is almost here which means Thanksgiving and Christmas will be here before you know it! This…

Coping with Losing a Pet – Mental Health Help

Authors: Lawrence Robinson, Jeanne Segal, Ph.D., and Robert Segal, M.A. Preface by John Riley Hello, Publisher here and I wanted to share something with you. Yesterday we lost our second pet dog, his name was Jack Jack (white and brown…

Japan’s “Hikikomori” Population Could Top 10 Million

What type of Mental Illness is this and is there a solution? Collected and published by John Riley and brought to you by Nippon.com & frontiersin.org Hikikomori has been defined by a Japanese expert group as having the following characteristics: (1)…

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Almost 60 percent of pregnant teens say they have used one or more substances in the past year, nearly double the rate of non-pregnant teens, researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have found.

Use of these substances continues during pregnancy, especially among younger teens, the study found. More than one-third of all pregnant teens ages 12 to 14 said they used one or more substances in the previous month, the Austin American-Statesman reports. Pregnant teens…

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A Young Man with Substance Abuse and Comorbidity of Multiple Paraphilia: A Case Report

Farzaneh Dehghani1 , * , Azadeh Rahavi1 , Reza Bidaki1 , 2 Department of Psychiatry, Research Center of Addiction and Behavioral Sciences, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran2 Diabetes Research Center, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran* Corresponding Author: Department of Psychiatry, Research Center of…

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