Hope can play large role in mental health
Pueblo Chieftain, CO -
Some people may believe that feeling hope with a bad prognosis (such as having a terminal disease) forces a denial of reality, or allows false hope to develop. However, there are some important differences between total denial, informed denial and false hope. With total denial, you don’t believe you’re ill, and with such a denial, you can’t feel hopeful for a positive outcome. But with informed denial, you accept your diagnosis and choose to feel hope for remission, fewer complications or less pain. Informed denial often inspires hope, which allows you to put your fighting spirit to work, confront a new challenge and utilize all of your internal strength and available resources to fight off the disease. False hope is more similar to wishful thinking and built on pathological denial. When reality hits, the false hope disintegrates, leading to feelings of hopelessness - in which there is a feeling of negativity and no expectation for good or positive things to happen in the future. With hopelessness, depression and illness frequently follow.
2006-03-19
Higher priority for mental health in Wales
News Wales, UK -
"Newport has also been one of the first areas in Wales to launch a mental health action plan in response to findings in the Wales Audit Office report on mental health which was published last year. Commissioners and providers of mental health services in Newport now have a clear strategic framework from which to move forward.
2006-03-18
It�s time to address mental health crisis
The State, SC -
Now nearly 50 percent of the department’s short-term beds, those intended for brief stays and stabilization, are occupied by long-term patients who were displaced when long-term beds at the State Hospital on Bull Street were eliminated. And the department’s waiting list for its forensic facility has reached levels that are unacceptable from both a legal and a patient care point of view. A recent surge in emergency admissions from jails (e.g. suicide risks) has decreased available beds for court-ordered, pretrial evaluations and restorations to competency required to stand trial.
2006-03-17
Rise in mental health prescriptions
Irish Health, Ireland -
"GROW accepts that doctors are under pressure to prescribe medication to their patients. People want an instant solution to their problems, however we urge doctors to look at the alternatives available to them", said Mike Watts, GROW's national programme coordinator.
2006-03-16
Service to provide mental health link
Dandenong Star, Australia -
�One of the key themes is the development of innovative approaches based on relapse prevention and early intervention,� Mr Minett said. �PARC services aim to provide a �step up� and �step down� function between community care and in-patient treatment.�
2006-03-13
NZ health board paying for abortions in Sydney
Stuff.co.nz, New Zealand -
He said the issue came down to how it was possible to offer the service on a practical basis when nobody publicly or privately wanted to do it. There were morals involved in decisions, but some could also be uncomfortable or intimidated by the procedure late in pregnancies.
2006-03-11
Rethink: Churchill in straitjacket statue challenges mental health
Politics.co.uk, UK -
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