Posts Tagged ‘mental health’
Question by Jessica MMM: my son VOLUNTARILY admitted himself into rehab 3 years ago, does this exclude him from posessing a foid card?
he was 16 at the time, it was not court ordered and the firearms owner act is poorly worded they do not define “mental health facility” as a rehabilitation center and on the application says it’s a felony to falsely admit info. so what im wondering is since he was self mandated, received no physiciatric care while staying, and also was never banned by a professional that he is not able to obtain a FOID card. so does this mean he’s still eligible because he loves hunting and is looking toward getting a rifle.
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Answer by screamyourheartout
i don’t think it makes any difference whether it was voluntary or not. he still went to rehab
if i were you, i would check with someone. there should be a contact number or something like that on the foid application form, or online if you google it. ring them and ask if that counts as a mental health facility
Answer by StealthBeast
I’m pretty sure it’s okay. They intentionally make exception for the word voluntary so you don’t have to choose between necessary help and constitutional rights…
Sad really, that you need to worry about this.
But neither my answer nor the guy above me is qualified to answer. I think you need to ask someone more locally, and officially like the police, that way if the police it’s okay, get that in writing… If stuff goes south, you’ll have covered your bases.
Good luck.
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Bloomington residents gather to protest rehab facility
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Did Morehead group kill Grayson rehab center?
Jan. 10, 2014 — The Journal-Times has learned that the owners of the Morehead Inspiration Center (MIC) may have influenced the decision to shift the location of a proposed drug rehabilitation center from Grayson back to Boyd County, its original …
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Question by misskrisq2: What does it mean by examining the classifications?
I am doing a paper for abnormal psychology. I am unsure on what the instructions mean by examining the classifications of certain disorders. The instructions state, “Examine the various classifications of eating, substance abuse, sex/gender/sexual, and personality disorders.” These are the classifications. Because they are categories within the DSM-IV. Can someone explain to me what to do? Sorry this is probably a dumb question, but I appreciate the help.
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Answer by Kristal [Ward 7 Resident]
Generally speaking, the classifications can be found in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) ~ which is a reference book used in the mental health field.
The DSM
Psychologists and psychiatrists use a reference book called the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) to diagnose psychological disorders. The American Psychiatric Association published the first version of the DSM in 1952. It has been revised several times, and the newest version is commonly referred to as the DSM-IV.
The DSM-IV uses a multi-axial system of classification, which means that diagnoses are made on several different axes or dimensions. The DSM has five axes:
1.Axis I records the patient’s primary diagnosis.
2.Axis II records long-standing personality problems or mental retardation.
3.Axis III records any medical conditions that might affect the patient psychologically.
4.Axis IV records any significant psychosocial or environmental problems experienced by the patient.
5.Axis V records an assessment of the patient’s level of functioning
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The study analyzed smoking, drinking and drug use in nearly 20,000 people. That included 9,142 psychiatric patients diagnosed with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or schizoaffective disorder — an illness characterized by psychotic symptoms such as …
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Severe Mental Illness Tied to Substance Use: Which Comes First?
Do you need another reason to stop using alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, or illegal drugs? New research indicates that substance abuse may lead to serious mental conditions such as schizophrenia and bi-polar disorder with psychosis. With the help of a …
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Schools respond to drug initiative
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Question by jetrose2000: How can we as an nation abolish mental health issue’s?
Is their anything under way that may be looking some what promising? In order to get rid of mental health issue’s? Mishigan is so full of people how need help from big hosptal reacher leaders in this feeld
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Answer by Az rastaman
Yea we could spend some money trying to help these people . Reagan virtually ended the free mental health system in this country . And we wonder why there are so many homeless with mental issues , they can’t get any real help without insurance .
Answer by LemonTea
People (including those who are professionals in the field of mental health) need to first consider whether too many people are being diagnosed with disorders when – really – they may either just be unhappy or else have emotional problems that could mimick certain mental health conditions. In other words, people are being over-diagnosed at least to some degree these days.
Also, a whole lot of mental health conditions are related to people using alcohol and/or drugs.
I’ve always thought there should be some simple book handed out to new mothers about some of the most basic ways of making a baby feel secure and talking to children; because when children get the right, solid, nurturing when they’re little (and throughout their childhoods) they are often more able to deal with some things that may cause someone not as strong to develop mental health problems.
Schools need to gain a better understanding of two things: 1) How to create an optimum environment in the group setting in order to improve the “overall picture” when it comes to how hundreds of individuals feel during the school day and 2) How not to overestimate children’s/teen’s emotional maturity and how not to underestimate their intellectual maturity and needs. There are ways some things could be restructured or otherwise changed so that all kids felt more a part of the school and fewer kids would have any tendency they have to be different made worse by how the school does things.
Courts need to stop running roughshod over people who go there to get a divorce. There can be complete disregard for one party or another, and there can be complete disregard for whether both parents are able to work and be financial and emotional support for the children. As a result, one or both parents may be so grief-stricken and stressed out at watching their children suffer the parents may get depression or anxiety or even resort to substance abuse in some cases. The children can suffer from depression because their parents have been prevented from remaining solid and properly supportive (financially, but sometimes emotionally as well).
People need to understand how stress in one’s life (particularly long-term and/or extreme stress) leads to elevated cortisol levels, which can lead to inability to concentrate and/or feeling exhausted. If there were more awareness of this there may be a better effort to solving what causes the stress rather than treating a person’s “unhappiness” or inability to concentrate as if it is depression.
State agencies administering assistance programs need to be aware of the above as well, and need to put less emphasis on assuming that people with money problems MUST need job training. If state programs were more aimed at getting a person’s situation improved to the point where there was less destructive stress people would be more able to find work (and training if necessary) for themselves. State programs often miss the root of the problem and focus instead on either making sure people have food (reasonable enough) or have job training available.
I would like to see the Federal Government put out some guidelines (not rules or policies, just well-founded, sound, guidelines) about what is healthy in a family environment and what isn’t. These guidelines could be made available to anyone dealing with families, schools, children, etc.; and should emphasize what is emotional nurturing and what is destructive in families.
Companies that employ people in non-prestigious jobs (particularly non-prestigious jobs in particular) need to establish a policy of treating these people with more respect (rather than as if they’re “nothing”), but they also need to expect more in terms of a higher quality performance. In other words, this type of work needs to be seen as being valued, respected, but also its own type of “professional”. The work needs to be valued but the workers also need to be valued. As it is, neither the work nor the workers is valued in many cases.
The mental health profession should, perhaps, divide into two categories – people dealing with mental illness and people dealing with helping non-mentally-ill people going through “life situations”, which would include things as normal as an ok life with too much destructive stress.
It also seems to me that the mental health profession and other professions need to have a greater awareness of the “ok-ness” of most people and focus on things in that person’s life that may be contributing to a condition that may look like mental health problems rather than just put a band-aid on things by suggesting anti-depressants when the person’s “depression” would be eliminated if the root of the problem were addressed.
Mental health professionals went into the field (often) because they wanted to help people with mental health problems. They spent time and money getting training about mental health conditions. There is the chance that some mental health professionals may have a sublte emotional investment in believing there is illness or something wrong with a client rather than focusing on what is wrong around the client.
There should be some kind of campaign to educate people about the fact that listening to too much depressing/violent music or watching too much depressing/violent/otherwise non-redeeming-value movies/television is not nurturing to people’s souls and may contribute to an overall negative image of the world.
I don’t know whether there is anything promising “out there”, but the above is what I sincerely believe is needed on a national level in order to reduce the overwhelming numbers of people with mental health issues.
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Alcohol & Drug Rehab in Hamilton Launches Program that Leads Adolescents …
Hamilton, Canada (PRWEB) January 04, 2014. A Hamilton alcohol and drug rehab center is announcing that it has started a new program aimed at helping adolescents break their abuse of alcohol at Alcohol Addiction Treatment Centers. According to a report …
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Question by Liza Shevchuk: Natural Remedies For Brain Damage After Drug Abuse?
My older brother has done many drugs from about 16-21. Its been a year since his last use, and he’s been having some serious problems. He has high anxiety and he’s been having frequent episodes of “weird” (as he calls it) feelings. He doesn’t label it as feeling sick. During these episodes he feels jittery, emotional (even cry’s sometimes) out of control, his heart rate goes up. This also causes him to have insomnia. Maybe they’re panic attacks, but the thing is, what triggers it? This occurs randomly on a normal day. We believe its typical withdrawal symptoms, because he abused quite a few drugs. (Marijuana, cigarettes, ecstasy, crystal meth, shrooms, hookah, cocaine, inhalants, “uppers” (as he calls them))
He has gone to see his doctor several times to get treatment, and his doctor said he has migraines.
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He prescribed him anti depressants and that didn’t help my brother AT ALL.
He does this herbal drop treatment (echinacea, other oils, etc) That help him sleep.
Now we’re trying to find him herbal remedies that would help repair his brain damage from all of the abuse he has done to it.
Thank you very much.
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Answer by jannsody
I’m not sure that there will be repairing of the brain damage (presuming that he has that as I’m not a medical doctor :), but researchers believe that the brain is very “plastic” and may form new nerve pathways to *help* compensate for the injured areas.
With regard to inhalant use, my friend actually has a severe Brain Injury from huffing at the age of 12, now in her 30s. The chemicals in products used for huffing are actual *poisons* that were never meant to go through the bloodstream.
Please be *very* careful with herbal supplements or “remedies” (e.g., echinacea, ginkgo biloba, chamomile) as they can result in side effects and/or drug (medication) interactions. It’s best to check with a licensed pharmacist before taking any of them. Not everything that is “natural” is safe 😉
Regarding the panic attacks, some people have generalized anxiety (to know specific event) or other types of anxiety. The antidepressants may help to lessen the intensity and/or frequency of the anxiety symptoms. Such medications tend to take about 6-8 weeks before possibly noticing results. A caveat (warning) is that some antidepressants may cause insomnia (trouble getting to and/or staying asleep). However, there are medications that one may take to help counteract the insomnia.
Even though benzo’s (e.g., ativan, valium, xanax, klonopin) may be prescribed to help with sleep, they’re not always recommended as a medication due to their physical addictiveness. (Some withdrawal symptoms from benzo’s may include seizures, psychosis/mental break from reality, or even death.) Some psychiatrists (it’s best to get medication for mental health issues from a board-certified psychiatrist as opposed to “just” a family doctor) prescribe seroquel (or other medications), which is classified as an antipsychotic but in smaller dosages may help with sleep.
You’d mentioned that he’s gone to the doctor several times, and I’m wondering if he’s gone to a neurologist which is medical dr who can help rule out disorders of the nervous system – brain, spinal cord, nerves. I’m just thinking that to help “cover all the bases” (not trying to give false hope though, know what I mean).
I’m not sure that he’d still be going through withdrawal symptoms a year after stopping the drugs, but it’s a good idea to ask a doctor about that as well.
Pertaining to the anxiety, please show him this government site which may have some local counseling agencies: http://findtreatment.samhsa.gov/ and can click the second link. Then one can click “near you” on the left-hand side of the page under “find facilities” and can type one’s city and state of residence into search. Their toll-free 24/7 referral helpline: 1-800-662-HELP (4357). Just an fyi that the first link is for those looking for substance abuse counseling/treatment, and that may be an option if he’s still “using” or having cravings for substances.
A 12-step program, such as Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), may have some local support groups. The only requirement is having a desire to get sober. One may attend an “open” AA meeting if there is no drinking problem: http://www.aa.org
This site has some common mottos pertaining to those 12-step programs, including “One day at a time”, “First things first” and “People, places and things”: http://www.royy.com/toolsofrecovery.html
Al-Anon is a 12-step program for the *friends and family* of the problem drinker, but one may attend an “open” Al-Anon meeting if the loved one doesn’t have a drinking problem: http://www.al-anon.alateen.org
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