Read more mental illness stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/4155/mental-illness.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 13:55:35 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/71794/fake-lottery-winner-causes-store-ruckus.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAn Ohio woman may be charged with inciting panic after telling a store full of shoppers that she had won the lottery and was treating. Police had to show up at the Burlington Coat Factory to put down the ruckus when word got out, the Columbus Dispatch reports. The 45-year-old...http://www.newser.com/story/71794/fake-lottery-winner-causes-store-ruckus.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 15 Oct 2009 15:40:37 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/70643/at-heart-of-marilyns-fall-a-very-sick-girl.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagJ. Randy Taraborrelli’s new 541-page biography, The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe , doesn’t really deliver on promises of “explosive,” “revelatory” discoveries—at least, “not to a Marilyn obsessive like myself,” writes Lori Leibovich for DoubleX. “Instead, there is the deepening of the much more ordinary tragedy that continues to fascinate”—...http://www.newser.com/story/70643/at-heart-of-marilyns-fall-a-very-sick-girl.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 30 Sep 2009 12:21:13 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/70611/genius-madness-linked-to-gene.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe reason why many creative people like Vincent Van Gogh show self-destructive tendencies is in the genes, researchers have discovered. Scientists in a new study found that volunteers identified as the most creative also had the highest levels of a gene variant associated with psychosis and depression, the Daily Telegraph...http://www.newser.com/story/70611/genius-madness-linked-to-gene.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 30 Sep 2009 3:45:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/70412/uighur-wont-leave-brother-at-gitmo-so-hes-staying.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBahtiyar Mahnut, a Chinese Uighur detainee at Guantanamo Bay, is guilty of no crime. In fact, he’s free to leave and even has an offer of sanctuary from the island nation of Palau, like all of his compatriots save one. And that one, his brother Arkin, is why he’s staying,...http://www.newser.com/story/70412/uighur-wont-leave-brother-at-gitmo-so-hes-staying.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 28 Sep 2009 10:12:11 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69312/insane-asylums-werent-so-bad-oliver-sacks.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMental health experts have lost touch with the benefits of old-fashioned insane asylums, where patients once enjoyed a sense of community and jobs like cleaning and farming, Oliver Sacks writes in the New York Review of Books . Touching on a new book of Christopher Payne photographs called Asylum —which offers...http://www.newser.com/story/69312/insane-asylums-werent-so-bad-oliver-sacks.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 13 Sep 2009 17:35:45 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/66004/experts-warn-parents-of-toddler-depression.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSome toddlers who seem cranky or sad could be suffering from chronic depression, PsychCentral reports. A new study finds that some children as young as 3 already show clear symptoms of clinical depression. The condition was most common in children who had suffered abuse or the loss of a parent,...http://www.newser.com/story/66004/experts-warn-parents-of-toddler-depression.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 04 Aug 2009 3:45:47 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/65485/cannibal-mom-diagnosed-with-schizophrenia-depression.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagOtty Sanchez, the Texas 33-year-old who confessed to stabbing, decapitating, skinning, and eating portions of her newborn son, had been diagnosed with schizophrenia and postpartum psychosis before Sunday’s slaying, the San Antonio Express-News reports. She’s been charged with capital murder, and is currently in hospital under 24-hour surveillance. The baby’s...http://www.newser.com/story/65485/cannibal-mom-diagnosed-with-schizophrenia-depression.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 28 Jul 2009 12:16:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/63349/genetic-faults-link-manic-depression-schizophrenia.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagScientists have discovered genetic variations that link schizophrenia to manic depression for the first time, the Independent reports. Research made possible by technical advances found that thousands of tiny genetic faults raised the risk of both mental illnesses, which had previously been believed to be completely distinct conditions. Experts hope...http://www.newser.com/story/63349/genetic-faults-link-manic-depression-schizophrenia.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 02 Jul 2009 7:41:49 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/63311/newcomer-to-baseballs-disabled-list-anxiety.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMajor League Baseball’s disabled list has expanded to include a previously touchy ailment, the Wall Street Journal reports—anxiety. Three players have recently sat out games because of publicly acknowledged cases of the “butterflies,” an admission unheard of just years ago. Though the airing of psychological problems is rare in...http://www.newser.com/story/63311/newcomer-to-baseballs-disabled-list-anxiety.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 01 Jul 2009 13:57:51 CDT