Good evening!  I'm Kerry J Harrison at the business desk and I say that it's time for all of us to have a mental health checkup.  Yes, it's long overdue and as part of my evidence, I have chosen a number of stories and news clippings to back up my call.  Please, take some time to review these and take the first step to a mental health checkup.  Remember now, stress, anxiety, and depression wait for no man and time is always on their side.

Have a great day.

 

News on stress, anxiety, and depression

 

  LIVING WELL: Mindfulness therapy offers new tool to fight depression
  Packet Online - Princeton,NJ,USA
  Her psychotherapy practice focuses on mindfulness and hypnosis in the management of stress, anxiety, and pain and coping with illness. ...
For more detail check out:
http://www.packetonline.com/articles/2008/04/17/njhealth/news/doc4804eb0b0d7f7041698246.txt

 

  Stress management tool claims it can save businesses millions of ...
  TrainingZone.co.uk - Bristol,UK
  A total of 13.8 million working days were lost to work-related stress, depression and anxiety in 2006/07. Jon Case, chief executive of Birchfield ...
For more detail check out:
http://www.trainingzone.co.uk/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=182212

 

  Home trouble behind most stress days off
  Kent Online - United Kingdom
  But stress and anxiety has hit a four-year high, with 10255 days lost. Tricia Palmer, assistant director for organisational matters at Medway Council, ...
For more detail check out:
http://www.kentonline.co.uk/aroundkent/news.asp?village=16284&article_id=431933

 

  Look after your employees and they will look after you
  HRZone.co.uk - Bristol,UK
  The Health & Safety Executive estimates that, together with anxiety and depression, 13.8 million working days are lost a year from stress. ...
For more detail check out:
http://www.hrzone.co.uk/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=182326

 

  Stressed out? UM, device manufacturer offer ways to handle it
  MLive.com - MI,USA
  The Mayo Clinic reports that some research shows that meditation may help allergies, anxiety, arthritis, asthma, cancer, chronic pain, depression, ...
  For more detail check out:
http://blog.mlive.com/ann_arbor_business_review/2008/04/stressed_out_um_device_manufac.html

 

  Cognitive, Brain News RoundUp
  By Alvaro
  Two main focus areas of the conference will be ADHD (executive function and prefrontal cortex) and stress (including trauma, depression, anxiety, and resilience). Comment: excellent agenda and speakers. Great conference for anyone ...
  SharpBrains -
http://www.sharpbrains.com

 

  How Exercise Revs Up Your Brain US News & World Report
  By John Ratey
  In Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain, published earlier this year, psychiatrist John Ratey explores the neuroscience behind potential beneficial effects of aerobic exercise on anxiety, stress, depression, ...
  John J. Ratey, MD -
http://johnratey.typepad.com/blog/

 

  300000 vet's have mental problem, 320000 had brain
  Officials said last month that it's most recent one, done last fall, found 18.2 percent of soldiers suffered a mental health problem such as depression, anxiety or acute stress in 2007 compared with 20.5 percent the previous year. ...
  Latest News -
http://www.worthyboards.com/index.php

 

  TELL TALE SIGNS OF DRUG USE
  By admin
  Psychological Effects - addiction, anxiety, paranoia/psychosis, depression hallucinations, formication: the sensation of insects creeping on or under the skin. Paraphernalia - needles, razor blade, drinking straw, money rolled up (for ...
  Harmony News -
http://harmony-hotels.org

 

  Anthem Blue Cross - recent activity
  By Ducknet
  Anthem's EAP provides confidential, professional assistance when an employee's life and work are affected by personal problems such as relationship, stress, legal or financial issues, career concerns, and anxiety or depression. ...
  EMR Forum -
http://www.emrupdate.com/forums/3.aspx

 

  Is it just stress or is it depression?
  North County Times - Escondido,CA,USA
  Often, trying personal experiences can lead to a state that predisposes one to developing clinical depression or anxiety. Studies have shown that almost one ...
For more detail check out:
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2008/04/20/health/2490bc361b6c9d568825742400811737.txt

 

  Depression and anxiety grow across country, but stigma remains the ...
  Muncie Star Press - Muncie,IN,USA
  Adjustment disorder is often caused by the death of a loved one, conflicts on the job and financial stress. It can lead to depression and anxiety. ...
For more detail check out:
http://www.thestarpress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080420/NEWS01/804200344/1002/NEWS01

 

  Heart attacks? Cancer? No, the West's greatest health problem is ...
  Independent - London,England,UK
  In Britain, one in six people suffer from depression or chronic anxiety, affecting one in three families. Pearson realised she had a problem with anxiety ...
For more detail check out:
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/features/heart-attacks-cancer-no-the-wests-greatest-health-problem-is-anxiety-810767.html

 

  Working Off Depression
  By Money Back(Money Back)
  Many reviews and meta-analyses show that regular physical activity is correlated with improvement in clinical depression and anxiety, mild to moderate depressive symptoms, insomnia, and resilience under stress. ...
  Depression -
http://depression-blognews.blogspot.com/

 

  Dragging Myself Out Of Depression
  By admin
  When I oversubscribed books entree to door, the realty was noise galling and I would be prosperous to gist at mercantilism for member weeks and then apiece 95th week, I would be unable to grappling the anxiety and stayed in lowermost ...
  Sunglass Hut Organization -
http://sunglass-hut.org/

 

  420 Magazine - International Cannabis News
  By 420
  Marijuana, Genes, Medicines And Brain Scans Help Scientists Find Better Anxiety Treat Everyone with depression and anxiety issues should read this. Herb Fellow, 04-19-2008, 1, 38, 06:21 AM, 04-19-2008, Smokin Moose ...
  420 Magazine -
http://www.420magazine.com/forums

 

  Mama Told Me There'd Be Days Like This
  By Bill Rocks Cleveland(Bill Rocks Cleveland)
  This is the second post in a series detailing my recent bout with anxiety, panic attacks, depression, insomnia, and the like. You could say that I hit the grand slam of mental illness, if you were inclined to speak in terms of sports. ...
  I Rock Cleveland -
http://irockcleveland.blogspot.com/

 

  1m children 'suffer from disorders'
  More than a million children have disorders ranging from depression and anxiety to anorexia, a report is expected to warn this week.
  Sleaford Today - Latest National News -
http://www.sleafordstandard.co.uk/NewsFront.aspx?SectionID=4068

 

  Stress, Anxiety, Anger Reduction Techniques Helping Children Are ...
  PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
  ... ADD, Bi-polar; Depression; Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Deborah Theisen, Founder and President, Families of Kids with Mood and Anxiety Disorders, ...
For more detail check out:
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/04/prweb876344.htm

 

  A million children 'mentally ill' through stress
  Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
  More than a million children have disorders ranging from depression and anxiety to anorexia, a report is expected to claim this week. ...
For more detail check out:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/22/nmental122.xml

 

  Effect of a proprietary Magnolia and Phellodendron extract on ...
  7thSpace Interactive (press release) - New York,NY,USA
  Recent research has established correlations between stress, anxiety, insomnia and excess body weight and these correlations have significant implications ...
For more detail check out:
http://7thspace.com/headlines/279469/effect_of_a_proprietary_magnolia_and_phellodendron_extract_on_stress_levels_in_healthy_women_a_pilot_double_blind_placebo_controlled_clinical_trial.html

 

  Mood lifting
  Boston Globe - United States
  BELMONT - Monday mornings, Theo Baars's exhausting depression often tries to seduce him into just staying in bed. But then, he says, a staffer at Appleton ...
For more detail check out:
http://www.boston.com/news/health/articles/2008/04/21/mood_lifting/

 

  Helping cope with depression at work
  Guardian - UK
  At any one time one worker in six will be experiencing depression, anxiety or problems relating to stress. It's a normal part of working life. ...
For more detail check out:
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/joepublic/2008/04/helping_cope_with_depression_a.html

 

  Mental health in the workplace: spotting signs of depression
  Research shows that bosses underestimate how much their colleagues and employees are suffering from stress, anxiety and depression. It also reveals that almost three in every ten employees will have a mental health problem in any one ...
  TrainingZONE.co.uk News -
http://www.trainingzone.co.uk

 

  Battling with bulimia
  Research has shown that bulimia is more common in people with some other psychological problem, such as an anxiety disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) or post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Have an unhealthy body image. ...
  NHS Direct News and health alerts - http://www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk
  BrainCells Starts Clinical Trial With BCI-540 For Depression With ...
  BrainCells has initiated a Phase 2a clinical trial with its lead product candidate, BCI-540, for the treatment of depression with anxiety.
  eMaxHealth - Health News -
http://www.emaxhealth.com

 

  Does Surviving Cancer Lead to Weight Gain?
  By Arya M. Sharma, MD
  I can think of a number of reasons why surviving cancer could predispose to weight gain: "catch-up" fat, depression, "post-traumatic" stress, anxiety, susbtance abuse, "overfeeding", immobility, medications, and perhaps a few others. ...
  Capital Health WW-MD's Notes -
http://ch-weightwisemd.blogspot.com/

 

  Difference Between Mental Health Counselor and a Behavioral ...
  ... and relationship issues to name a few. They are often in private practice or community mental health agencies and programs. Common conditions treated are depression, anxiety disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, [...]
  CounsellingResource.com News... -
http://counsellingresource.com/