Mental health problems roughly doubled in the months after Hurricane Katrina, but thoughts of suicide among those with mental health problems actually decreased, according to a new study.
The Mental Health Bill will create misconceptions in society that people with mental health problems are mass murderers when the reality is that they are much more likely to harm themselves than others, hence discouraging them from getting the help they need.
Professor Sean Duggan, chief executive of the Centre for Mental Health, said that secure mental health services had a vital role to play in rehabilitating offenders with severe mental health problems.
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In October, Mr Gilmour told the BBC he had been left with mental health problems and lived in constant fear of being killed.
Nacro said the plans would damage efforts to take criminals away from a life of crime and exacerbate mental health problems in jails.
Residential care homes exist for people with learning disabilities and people who have mental health problems in addition to those that care for the elderly.
For people suffering mental health problems in this part of the country, this is the closest many will ever come to psychiatric care, says Hungarian iReporter Pataki Balazs.
"To date there has not been clear research evidence to support or dispute whether noise exposure is linked to mental health problems in children, " she told BBC News Online.
The projects are aimed at tackling mental health problems in rurally isolated areas in unique ways - helping to reduce feelings of isolation that add to stress, anxiety, and depression.
On the one hand there are people on Incapacity that could easily work, but there are also a lot of neglected people with severe mental health problems in our society who have basically been left to rot.
I'm very concerned that a lot of vulnerable people, people sleeping out in our streets, who suffer from mental health problems, or learning difficulties and end up in our prisons, are not being looked after properly.
GPs in Norfolk and Suffolk can refer patients with mental and physical health problems to take part in activities at a so-called care farm.
Research shows that children who grew up in care are, later in life, overrepresented in prisons and are more likely to be unemployed, single parents and have mental health problems than those who grew up in their own families.
In Monk's last years, he suffered from mental health problems and withdrew from playing jazz altogether by secluding himself in Nica's New Jersey home.
Ms Brennan had a long history of mental health problems, the inquest in Leicester heard.
The number of pupils in the UK with behavioural and mental health problems is on the rise, a teachers' union says.
The next biggest reason for contacting ChildLine is bullying - and there were substantial increases in calls about depression and mental health and problems with friends.
Rachel Morris, YMCA Derbyshire's head of housing and communities, said many young people at the YMCA's 88-bed hostel in Derby were vulnerable and had mental health problems or learning difficulties.
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Bankers are at higher risk for burnout and mental-health problems due to the volatility in their profession, says Alden Cass, a New York-based clinical psychologist who specializes in counseling Wall Street professionals.
More than a third of the nation's 12.6 million cancer survivors had physical or mental health problems that put their overall health in jeopardy and had a negative impact on their quality of life, according to a recent study of federal health data funded by the National Cancer Institute.
The largest shared characteristic of the families was, in fact, that the mother had mental health problems.
Smoking has become engrained into the culture in many institutions caring for people with mental health problems and making them totally smoke-free environments should be a priority, it concluded.
In his speech, Mr Blair said the "hard to reach" groups his "social exclusion plan" hoped to target included: children in care, families with complex problems, teenage pregnancies and mental health patients.
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The MPs also said they were concerned that since 2011 the UK Border Agency had lost four court cases in which judges said immigration detainees with mental health problems had been falsely imprisoned and subject to inhuman or degrading treatment.
Some may be doing poorly in school, others may have mental health or emotional problems.
Military studies show that as many as one quarter of soldiers who have fought in Iraq and Afghanistan have symptoms of serious mental health problems.
The survey found that many people thought the problem was getting worse, with 56% believing children growing up in this decade would be more vulnerable to mental health problems.
In a UK-wide study done by the Royal Association for Disability Rights in 2009, 15% of those with mental health problems did not disclose them to anybody at work, compared with just 4% for those with other disabilities.
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It is the hope that helping soldiers increase their resilience will reduce not only the number of suicides in veterans, but the incidence of other mental health problems, like depression, anxiety, substance abuse, and of course post-traumatic stress disorder, which is so common among veterans.
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