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Treating trauma victims may cause its own trauma

They listen to tales of life's worst moments, but they can't go home and tell their spouses about what they've heard. Sometimes no amount of schooling is enough to shield them from taking on some of their patients' suffering.

Suicidal behavior may run in families

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.

Religious patients more likely to get intensive life-prolonging care

Cancer patients who rely on religion to cope with their terminal illnesses are more likely to use intensive life-prolonging care, according to a study published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

When a parent is bipolar, kids are at risk too

Children and teens who have a parent with bipolar disorder are 14 times more likely than their peers to have bipolar-like symptoms themselves, and are two to three times more likely to be found to have an anxiety or mood disorder, such as depression, according to a report in the March issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry.

Army official: Suicides in January 'terrifying'

One week after the U.S. Army announced record suicide rates among its soldiers last year, the service is worried about a spike in possible suicides in the new year.

Time.com: Government Drops Controversial Autism Study

A government agency has dropped plans to test a controversial treatment for autism that critics had called an unethical experiment on children

Time.com: Talking Out Trauma: Not Always a Help

Victims of disasters are told it's good to talk about your feelings. But a new study questions the benefits

Antidepressants could help stroke victims from the start

Doctors may want to give stroke victims antidepressants right away instead of waiting until they develop depression, a common complication, new research suggests.

Time.com: Tallying Mental Illness' Costs

A new analysis suggests that mental illness costs society nearly $200 billion a year in lost earnings -- and that is just the tip of the iceberg

Feelings of depression? Nuke 'em!

You think you may be suffering from depression and visit a psychiatrist to have your condition assessed.

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