How Bad News Is Delivered Affects Our Ability to Bounce Back Mental HealthBy The Ranch TNAugust 21, 2015A recent study from Rutgers University explores why people react to personal setbacks or negative news in different ways at different times. A setback, such as a bad grade on a test or a negative performance review at work, sometimes inspires people to work harder and improve on their results. Other times, equally disappointing news…
Post-Concussion Syndrome May Really Be PTSD Mental HealthBy The Ranch TNJuly 22, 2015A multinational team of researchers has determined that people who have sustained concussions are more likely to be diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) than with post-concussion syndrome (PCS) several months after injury. Concussions are a form of relatively minor traumatic brain injury that occur when a person’s head hits an object or when an…
Pros and Cons of Organization Mental HealthBy The Ranch TNJune 18, 2015Most people see organization as a good thing. However, new studies suggest there might be a downside to zealous compartmentalization. So how organized should you be? It may be helpful to take a look at the pros and cons of organization.
How to Cope With Grief on Father’s Day Helpful Articles, Mental HealthBy The Ranch TNJune 16, 2015Less than a month before Father’s Day, which falls on June 21 this year, our Vice President Joe Biden lost his son, Beau, to brain cancer. Beau was the Biden’s oldest son. He served as Delaware’s attorney general and was only 46 years old. As the Biden family mourns their loss, thousands of other fathers…
Psychiatric Patients Who Quit Smoking Less Likely to Be Re-Hospitalized Mental HealthBy The Ranch TNJune 6, 2015Recent studies are proving that quitting smoking is good for more than your physical health. Research involving psychiatric patients hooked on cigarettes is highlighting the ways in which quitting is good for your mental health, too.
Help With Anger Key to Preventing PTSD After a Natural Disaster Helpful Articles, Mental HealthBy The Ranch TNJune 2, 2015In combination with ongoing stress exposure, anger helps explain the damaging mental health impacts of living through a natural disaster, a team of Australian researchers report in a recent study.
Why Do People With PTSD Relive Traumatic Experiences? Helpful Articles, Mental HealthBy The Ranch TNMay 31, 2015People with PTSD may relive their traumatic experiences because they overgeneralize their memories, according to recent findings from a group of American researchers.
A Link Between Depression and Low Vitamin D Mental HealthBy The Ranch TNMay 23, 2015Low vitamin D has been hailed as critical to bone and muscle development, and suspected as a factor in certain diseases, now including depression. A new study from Oregon State University (OSU) found that healthy young women with vitamin D deficiency have higher incidence of clinical depression, a disabling mental disorder that cloaks a person…
More Than 500,000 Americans Denied Care for Mental Health Helpful Articles, Mental HealthBy The Ranch TNApril 21, 2015The scale of Americans still going untreated for mental illnesses but wanting help reached more than half a million last year despite intended protections in the Affordable Care Act (ACA), a new study has found.
For PTSD Sufferers, Emotional Content of Memories Separates From Context Helpful Articles, Mental HealthBy The Ranch TNJanuary 30, 2015People affected by post-traumatic stress disorder become susceptible to reliving trauma exposure when emotions associated with that trauma lose the factual context that places them in a rational framework, a new study by a team of Spanish and Brazilian researchers has found.
