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The world can be a lonely place for those afflicted by mental illness.      Picture Courtesy of Patrice Dufour, a very gifted Canadian Freelance Photographer81

The Straight Truth about Mental Illness

  "But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked. "Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad." "How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice. "You must be,"...

4 comments    health mental health illness
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Memories of Viet Nam

It’s that time of year when the heat vanishes with the sun, the breeze whipping up the change in temperature. We’re sitting in the dark, and he’s whispering. I can see the tears suspended in his...

11 comments    war veterans viet nam
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Disabled Veterans and Their Struggle

Disabled Veterans and Their Struggle The current war our nation is embedded in is a war with no remorse. Statistically there are fewer deaths in our modern war, than in Vietnam. Still we can not forget...

2 comments    health war medicine
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DISCRIMINATION IN FAVOUR OF POLICE & CHILDREN

It appears that Tort Law discriminates between different types of defendant, for example public bodies, rescuers or children, when establishing a duty of care. Justice Burroughs in the RICHARDSON V...

0 comments    children law police
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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder - a silent killer

Post Traumatic Stress Disorders or PTSD are anxiety disorders caused by traumatic event, such as : war, grief, crash etc. Sufferer who experience PTSD will remind those events in the future. Next time,...

0 comments    events ptsd traumatic
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Sound wave - an alternative way to overcome stress

Talk about stress or other mental disorders is something very complicated if compared with the other health problems, why? Because stress and other mental health disorders are invisible thing. Although...

0 comments    stress drugs treatment
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Suicide rates among soliders head for breaking a record

 The suicide rate among soliders is increasing and has already matched 2008 figures. It is believed they will continue to rise and reach an all time high. Of the soliders who are on active duty, there have...

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There Should Be Full Psychological Disclosure Before Marriage

  There should be a law that provides you with full disclosure of your future spouses psychological health before you marry. I believe that this would greatly cut down the rate of spousal abuse in this...

0 comments    health life family
Micky Dee, Clark, Dabney, Blackwell, Flannigan at Camp Carroll near the DMZ, Vietnam70

Veterans Day 2009

It's veterans Day 2009. I was treated to lunch by my good friend and cycling companion, TJ. We had fish tacos at the Governors Club. Pretty dang fancy it was! Veterans Day is an annual American holiday...

4 comments    politics people history
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Suicidal Soldiers

In the wake of the tragedy at Fort Hood, it seems necessary to address the issue of mental health or ill health in the military. Back in July of this year, I read a brief editorial in USA Today that stunned...

20 comments    war stress military
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