Georgia's mental health program received a badly needed boost from the General Assembly in the form of a $1,750,000 budget increase for the Milledgeville State Hospital.

The national average is more than $4 and that figure is considered by experts in the mental health field to be too low.

Mrs. Ten Eyke did mental health.

When you first acquire a pool, we earnestly recommend -- for your own mental health -- a good long chat with your insurance agent.

Follow-up visits of the nurse and social worker indicated continued success in the care of the new babies as well as a marked improvement in the family's day-to-day mental health and social functioning.

Moreover, the shortage of treatment resources and the chronically persistent shortage of mental health manpower force us to innovate additional refinements of preventive intervention techniques to make services more widely available -- and on a more effective basis to more people.

There were no depressingly serious cases: the ward doctor sometimes teamed up with the chaplain to serve as a marriage counselor -- sometimes the Navy sent people back to the States to preserve a marriage -- but mental health as a rule was very high.

Later in life, Mary struggled with the stresses of losing her husband and sons, and Robert Lincoln committed her temporarily to a mental health asylum in 1875.

Volunteerism and helping behavior have not only been shown to improve mental health, but physical health and longevity as well.

For example, one study on volunteerism found that feeling overwhelmed by others ' demands had an even stronger negative effect on mental health than helping had a positive one ( although positive effects were still significant ).

Some reports and scientific studies affirm that ritualized use of ayahuasca may improve mental and physical health.

Children in the areas where Agent Orange was used have been affected and have multiple health problems, including cleft palate, mental disabilities, hernias, and extra fingers and toes.

Some doubts have been raised about the long-term effectiveness of antipsychotics for schizophrenia, in part because two large international World Health Organization studies found individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia tend to have better long-term outcomes in developing countries ( where there is lower availability and use of antipsychotics and mental health problems are treated with more informal, community-led methods only ) than in developed countries.

Some critics have also analyzed the use of alleged front organizations and conflicted patient " advocacy " groups funded by pharmaceutical companies that seek to set the mental health agenda, including the use of the law to force people to take antipsychotics against their will, often justified by claims about risk of violence.

* Antipsychotic Medication-information from mental health charity The Royal College of Psychiatrists

Social environment, stress, mental health, family history, age, ethnic group, and gender all influence the risk for the condition.

Alcoholism can have adverse effects on mental health, causing psychiatric disorders and increasing the risk of suicide.

Long-term misuse of alcohol can cause a wide range of mental health problems.

In September 2010 the US Veterans Administration proposed construction of a $ 209 million state-of-the-art facility at Alameda Point that would provide primary care, specialty care, and mental health, substance abuse and other services.

Diagnosing bipolar disorder is often difficult, even for mental health professionals.

This can be voluntary or ( if mental health legislation allows and varying state-to-state regulations in the USA ) involuntary ( called civil or involuntary commitment ).

Following ( or in lieu of ) a hospital admission, support services available can include drop-in centers, visits from members of a community mental health team or Assertive Community Treatment team, supported employment and patient-led support groups, intensive outpatient programs.

Due to adverse effects associated with the long-term use of benzodiazepines, withdrawal from benzodiazepines, in general, leads to improved physical and mental health.

The long-term adverse effects of benzodiazepines include a general deterioration in physical and mental health and tend to increase with time.

The first is focused on abstract mental functions of an intelligent mind and operates using symbols, and the second, which follows the neural and associative properties of the human brain, is called subsymbolic.

There have been five revisions since it was first published in 1952, gradually including more mental disorders, although some have been removed and are no longer considered to be mental disorders.

In 1949, the World Health Organization published the sixth revision of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases ( ICD ) which included a section on mental disorders for the first time.

His first wife was, from 1919, confined in the Vienna mental hospital Am Steinhof, and three years after his death was murdered under the Nazi euthanasia laws.

In the first book on the subject, Neurypnology ( 1843 ), Braid described " hypnotism " as a state of physical relaxation accompanied and induced by mental concentration (" abstraction ").

The first large-scale mental test may have been the imperial examination system in China.

According to court records, the first three children have mental and physical disabilities, and have been placed in foster care.

Training is gradually becoming available in mental health first aid to equip community members such as teachers, school administrators, police officers, and medical workers in recognizing and managing situations where evaluations of behavior might be appropriate.

The extension of first aid training to cover mental health problems and crises is a quite recent development.

With use for morbidity there was a need for coding mental conditions, and for the first time a section on mental disorders was added.

In an age where the standard treatments for psychosis were electroconvulsive therapy and lobotomy, lithium had the distinction of being the first effective medication available to treat a mental illness.

The first ever systematic description of global disability arising in youth, published in 2011, found that among 10 to 24 year olds nearly half of all disability ( current and as estimated to continue ) was due to mental and neurological conditions, including substance use disorders and conditions involving self-harm.

Phrenology was among the first attempts to correlate mental functions with specific parts of the brain.

* 1817 – Opening of the first private mental health hospital in the United States, the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason ( now Friends Hospital ) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

In 1863 she had to retire the first time on account of her husband ’ s serious mental illness.

MAO inhibitors were the first antidepressant drugs developed, and were used primarily on patients in mental institutions.

The first philosopher to locate the mental abilities of the brain was Aristotle.

The 1952 first edition of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( DSM-I ) classified homosexuality as a mental disorder.

During Series 3 he suffered the first of several serious mental breakdowns, which also marked the onset of a decades-long cycle of manic / depressive illness.