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.

Withdrawal of benzodiazepines from long-term users, in general, leads to improved physical and mental health particularly in the elderly ; although some long term users report continued benefit from taking benzodiazepines, this may be the result of suppression of withdrawal effects.

Many associate the term " born again " with the revelation of a new concept, or an experience of conversion, defined as mental assent to the acceptance of Jesus Christ as one's personal Savior ; though some believe that this experience or mental assent ( See Gnosticism ) is not alone sufficient to merit Christian salvation.

The term " cognitive " in " cognitive science " is " used for any kind of mental operation or structure that can be studied in precise terms " ( Lakoff and Johnson, 1999 ).

Ulric Neisser coined the term " cognitive psychology " in his book Cognitive Psychology, published in 1967 wherein Neisser provides a definition of cognitive psychology characterizing people as dynamic information-processing systems whose mental operations might be described in computational terms.

While the term medical condition generally includes mental illnesses, in some contexts the term is used specifically to denote any illness, injury, or disease except for mental illnesses.

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( DSM ), the widely used psychiatric manual that defines all mental disorders, uses the term general medical condition to refer to all diseases, illnesses, and injuries except for mental disorders.

Ultimately, only mental objects, properties, events, exist — hence the closely related term subjective idealism.

In psychology, philosophy, and their many subsets, emotion is the generic term for subjective, conscious experience that is characterized primarily by psychophysiological expressions, biological reactions, and mental states.

It appears that the particularity of the term Hesychast has to do with the integration of the continual repetition of the Jesus Prayer into the practices of mental ascesis that were already used by hermits in Egypt.

The earliest definition of hypnosis was given by Braid, who coined the term " hypnotism " as an abbreviation for " neuro-hypnotism ", or nervous sleep, which he opposed to normal sleep, and defined as: " a peculiar condition of the nervous system, induced by a fixed and abstracted attention of the mental and visual eye, on one object, not of an exciting nature.

The term child labour is often defined as work that deprives children of their childhood, their potential and their dignity, and that is harmful to physical and mental development.

In psychology, it is a historical term for the state or condition now called profound mental retardation.

In England and Wales the Lunacy Acts 1890-1922 referred to lunatics, but the Mental Treatment Act 1930 changed the legal term to " Person of Unsound Mind ", an expression which was replaced under the Mental Health Act 1959 by mental illness.

Mental processes, mental functions and cognitive processes are terms often used interchangeably ( although not always correctly so, the term cognitive tends to have specific implications – see cognitive and cognitivism ) to mean such functions or processes as perception, introspection, memory, creativity, imagination, conception, belief, reasoning, volition, and emotion — in other words, all the different things that we can do with our minds.

Most international clinical documents use the term mental " disorder ", while " illness " is also common.

It has been noted that using the term " mental " ( i. e., of the mind ) is not necessarily meant to imply separateness from brain or body.

… with respect to the term " wrong ", a person lacks substantial capacity to know or appreciate that conduct is wrong if that person, as a result of mental disease or defect, lacked substantial capacity to know or appreciate either that the conduct was against the law or that it was against commonly held moral principles, or both.

Nèijiā (, also: Ninja ) is a term in Chinese martial arts, grouping those styles that practice nèijìng (), usually translated as internal martial arts, occupied with spiritual, mental or qi-related aspects, as opposed to an " external " () approach focused on physiological aspects.