Suicide Prevention : International Efforts and Cultural Themes ( Perfectionism - Psychology - Mental Health and Behavior - New Yo. Health | Depression leads to worst health. Depression is a more disabling condition than angina, arthritis, asthma and diabetes, World Health Organization research shows. And those with depression plus a chronic illness, such as diabetes, fare particularly badly, the study of more than 245,000 people suggests. Better treatment for depression would improve people's overall health, the researchers concluded in the Lancet. Experts called for better funding for mental health services.
Dr Somnath Chatterji and colleagues asked people from 60 countries taking part in the World Health Survey a variety of questions about their health, such as how they sleep, how much pain they have, and whether they have any problems with memory or concentration. Participants were also asked about how they manage with day-to-day tasks. After taking into account factors such as poverty and other health conditions, the researchers found that depression had the largest effect on worsening health. Urgency 'Vast sea of misery' New Depression Rx: Get Married. People who are looking to ease depression may have a new treatment option--marriage. A recent study suggests that marriage provides a greater psychological boost to depressed people than to happy people, even if the marriage is so-so.
Previous studies have suggested that the psychological perks of marriage depend upon marriage quality--a happy marriage gives rise to a happy couple, and vice versa. Other studies have shown that depressed people, who tend to communicate poorly and require more caring and support than happy people, also end up in unhappier marriages. So Adrianne Frech, a sociology graduate student at Ohio State University, and her colleague, Kristi Williams, speculated that happy people would garner more psychological perks from marriage than depressed people. To test their theory, they looked at a sample of 3,066 men and women who had been interviewed and tested for depression once in either 1987 or 1988 and then again five years later. Self-effacing people are secretly confident. No matter how meek they might appear, most people are endowed with the same self-confidence, new research reveals.
For some, however, that confidence is buried deep inside. Within the United States as well as across cultures—and stereotypes—all individuals hold a positive inner confidence. “A given person with high implicit [or inner] self-esteem may be outwardly self-promoting or may be outwardly very modest,” said study team member Anthony Greenwald, a psychologist at the University of Washington. The results are detailed in the June issue of the journal Psychological Science. Unreasonable? The finding that a self-effacing woman (for instance one who is quick to negate any compliment sent her way) could hold a deep assuredness seems at odds with reason. But the scientists suggest that cross-culturally similar practices of child-rearing, which include adoration and nurturing of youth, create the foundation for well-poised adults. . © 2012 LiveScience.com.
Health | Teenage self-harm widespread. More than one in 10 adolescents has deliberately harmed themselves, researchers have found. The study, commissioned by the Samaritans and conducted by the Centre for Suicide Research at Oxford University, found youngsters were more likely to harm themselves if they had friends who had already done so. Each year in the UK more than 24,000 teenagers are admitted to hospital after deliberately harming themselves. The research is the first large scale, anonymous survey on the subject to have been carried out in the UK. In total, more than 6,000 pupils aged 15 and 16 were quizzed from 41 schools across England.
They were asked about suicidal thoughts and self-harming behaviour. The survey found that young people who harm themselves often have difficulty coping with everyday problems. Lack of support Rather than employing positive strategies such as talking to someone about the situation, they were more likely to blame themselves, sit in their room or drink alcohol.
Underlying reasons. The costs and causes of low self-esteem. Nicholas Emler 28 November 2001 Low self-esteem has come to be seen as the cause for a wide range of personal and social ills, from crime and drug addiction, to educational failure and suicide attempts. For these reasons much effort is invested in raising self-esteem, particularly among young people. But can high self-esteem really be the magic bullet this effort assumes? Through a comprehensive review of the available research evidence, this report examines the case for this assumption. The popular image of high self-esteem as an all-purpose social 'vaccine', and scientific attempts to define and measure self-esteem;what is known about the links between low self-esteem and a range of problem behaviours; the origins of low self-esteem; the relative effectiveness of different kinds of interventions intended to raise self-esteem.
Heavy metal 'a comfort for the bright child' | Science. Hikikomori. WP: China treats Internet ‘addicts’ sternly - washingtonpost.com. Loneliness link with Alzheimer's. People who are lonely are twice as likely to develop Alzheimer's disease, a large US study has suggested. The findings come from a study of more than 800 elderly patients, who were followed over a four-year period. Social isolation has already been shown to be linked to dementia but this is the first time researchers have looked at how alone people actually felt. Writing in Archives of General Psychiatry, the researchers said the reason for the link was not yet clear. Study leader Professor Robert Wilson and colleagues assessed participants loneliness by asking people to rate from one to five whether they agreed with certain statements related to loneliness on an annual basis. Questions posed to those being studied included "I experience a general sense of emptiness" and "I often feel abandoned".
People in the study were also assessed for signs of dementia and Alzheimer's disease. However there was no association between loneliness and the brain pathology associated with Alzheimer's disease. Woman kills daughter’s classmates. A mind taut with pain - Health - Times Online. Global suicide toll exceeds war and murder. Suicide kills more people each year than road traffic accidents in most European countries, the World Health Organization is warning.
And globally, suicide takes more lives than murder and war put together, says the agency in a call for action. The death toll from suicide - at almost one million people per year - accounts for half of all violent deaths worldwide, says the WHO. "Estimates suggest fatalities could rise to 1.5 million by 2020," the agency warned on Wednesday. "Suicide is a tragic global public health problem," says Catherine Le Galès-Camus, WHO's assistant director general for non-communicable diseases and mental health. "There is an urgent need for coordinated and intensified global action to prevent this needless toll.
" The WHO is holding a meeting of experts in Geneva, Switzerland, to address suicide prevention ahead of its "World Suicide Prevention Day" on Friday. Muslim countries Blister packs High self-esteem and social "connectedness" can protect against suicide.