Study: Most Depressed Teens Recover With Treatment
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Suicidal behavior may run in families
By Elizabeth Landau CNN (CNN) — The poet Sylvia Plath, who made a name for herself through prose and poetry that conveyed a sense of depression and suicidal tendencies, famously died by asphyxiating herself in an oven in 1963. There is evidence that depression runs in families, but both genetics and environment influence the condition. [...]
Statement of Mental Health America on Preventing Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Disorders Among Young People
Contact: Steve Vetzner, (703) 797-2588 or svetzner@mentalhealthamerica.net ALEXANDRIA, Va. (March 26, 2009)-Mental Health America concurs with the Institute of Medicine/National Research Council report that the prevention of mental health and substance abuse conditions among young people must be a national priority. In addition, the report illustrates the importance of including the prevention of mental, emotional and [...]