A senate committee yesterday called for the investigation of the Department of Veterans Affairs’ mental health services, including an audit of its $5.7 billion budget. The Washington Post reports that Michelle Washington, director of post-traumatic stress disorder services at the Wilmington VA Medical Center in Delaware said facility managers “[spend] their
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States that offer abstinence-only education in public schools do not yield more abstinent students or less pregnancies, according to a newly released study from the University of Georgia. The researchers analyzed pregnancy and birth data from 48 U.S. states in order to evaluate the effectiveness of their approaches to sex
Having a creative friend or partner might spice things up in your life, but that unique worldview might be the very reason they are more likely to deceive you, according to research published by the American Psychological Association. A Duke University study using a series of tests gauging participants’ creativity,
An August report from the National Center for Veterans’ Studies revealed that war veterans in college need to pay close attention to their mental health, as nearly half reported thinking about suicide. As The Washington Post reports, the transition from war to college life continues to be difficult for veterans. Twenty-three-year-old veteran Brian
The stability and happiness in your marriage can be affected by someone other than your spouse, say researchers from Baylor University; your marriage can also be impacted by your boss. An online survey of 280 full-time employees and their partners found that employees who worked for abusive supervisors — which
The best way to get past a traumatic experience might be to sleep on it. A University of California, Berkeley, study focusing on the importance of REM sleep found that dream sleep can lessen the pain of certain memories and might be pivotal in helping people who suffer from post-traumatic stress
There has been a lot of speculation as to whether multivitamins are actually good for our health. But Taiwanese researchers have discovered that popping these pills every day might be doing a bigger detriment to our mental health. It turns out that a daily dose of multivitamins can give a
Having recently celebrated nine years of sobriety, I’ve been reflecting on my early days in this journey. Although I went to treatment for alcoholism three times in a seven-month period it was only the third time that I went by choice. The first time I went was at the behest
Yet another reason to surround yourself with positive, upbeat people: According to a University of Hawaii study, stress and anxiety are just as contagious as the common cold. Researcher Elaine Hatfield found that when a person is constantly engulfed in a particular emotion — whether it is positive or negative —
Previous studies have suggested that girls are better at maintaining friendships than boys, but a Duke University study found that when their friends betray them, girls struggle just as much as boys do – and in some ways, even more so. The study consisted of 267 fourth- and fifth-grade children