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Part of the reason there s a stigma for mental illness, including depression, is that people think it s only in their heads,

#Blood tests will take mental illness out of the squishy realm of feelings. And as Lonna Williams, C e o. of Ridge Diagnostics, says,

The benefits of mental illness There's a large and growing body of research devoted to the link between successful high-achieving personalities and some degree of mental illness.

Public health researchers have said studying rates of injuries accidents mental illness and teen use in the wake of the new laws will lead to a better understanding of marijuana's public health effects.

The UK Medical Research Council has called for greater investment to address the huge mismatch between the social and economic burden of mental illness and the relatively slow progress in research in the field.

The department argues that the condition should not be treated primarily as a mental illness. Swiss grants crisis The swiss government has stepped in to offer substitute grants in the wake of a move that bars researchers in the country from applying to the European Research Council (ERC.

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#Obama Expected To Launch Massive Study Of The Human Brainpresident Obama is planning to back an exhaustive study of the human brain that could help researchers gain insight into everything from Alzheimer's to mental illness to artificial intelligence the New york times reports:

#Collaborative efforts help mental health patients quit smokingpersons with mental illness account for more than one-third of adult smokers in the United states

The result of this disconnect according to Dr. Williams has left smokers with disparities to become the dominant group of smokers in the United states. This includes smokers with mental illness as well as other addictions and the very poor.

Medicaid is the primary health insurer for persons with mental illness in the U s . and mental health providers can utilize their experience with Medicaid to expand tobacco treatment through partnerships with tobacco control programs.

and improve the well-being of individuals with mental illness and other disparate populations which have limited access to smoking cessation options said Williams. Story Source:

#Psychiatric patients given smoking-cessation treatment less likely to be participated rehospitalizedpatients who in a smoking-cessation program during hospitalization for mental illness were able to quit smoking

The average life expectancy for people with severe mental illness is 25 years less than that of the general population

and offers evidence that it may have helped their mental health recovery said Prochaska who focuses on developing interventions to treat tobacco dependence in people with mental illness or addictive disorders.

#Adults with mental illness or substance use disorder more likely to smokeadults aged 18 or older who experienced any mental illness

or who have had a substance use disorder in the past year are more likely to smoke and to smoke more heavily than others according to a new report by the Substance abuse and Mental health Services Administration (SAMHSA).

According to the report adults experiencing any mental illness or a substance use disorder in the past year represent 24.8 percent of the adult population

In terms of rates of cigarette smoking 38.3 percent of adults experiencing mental illness or substance use disorders were current smokers as opposed to 19.7 percent of those adults without these conditions.

That means that the rate of current cigarette smoking among adults experiencing mental illness or substance use disorders is 94 percent higher than among adults without these disorders.

Similarly although those who had experienced both mental illness and a substance use disorder represented only 3. 8 percent of the population in the past year they smoked 9. 5 percent of all cigarettes.

The report defines any mental illness as any diagnosable mental behavioral or emotional disorder other than a substance use disorder.

It shows that people dealing with mental illness or substance abuse issues smoke more and are less likely to quit.

The report Adults with Mental illness or Substance Use Disorder Account for 40 Percent of All Cigarettes Smoked is based on the findings of SAMHSA's 2009-2011 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH.

http://www. samhsa. gov/data/spotlight/Spot104-cigarettes-mental-illness-substance-use-disorder. pdf.##SAMHSA is a public health agency within the Department of health and human services.

Its mission is to reduce the impact of substance abuse and mental illness on America's communities.

Low mental wellbeing is linked strongly to mental illness and mental health problems but high mental wellbeing is more than the absence of symptoms or illness;

Mental wellbeing is important not just to protect people from mental illness but because it protects people against common and serious physical diseases.

Mental illness is hugely costly to both the individual and society and mental wellbeing underpins many physical diseases unhealthy lifestyles and social inequalities in health.

#Adults with mental illness twice as likely to use tobaccokansas adults with mental illness are twice as likely to use tobacco as adults without mental illness according to a new report by RTI International and funded by the Kansas Health Foundation.

The report found 37.8 percent of Kansas adults with mental illness smoke compared to 17.3 percent of adults without mental illness.

Nearly one-half of Kansas adults who experience mental illness reported smoking in the last 30 days.

Smoking rates are highest among those with serious mental illness multiple disorders and substance use disorders.

The smoking rate among adults with mental illness remains high despite progress made in tobacco control

As a result people with mental illness are increased at an risk of negative health financial and social outcomes associated with their tobacco use.

The analysis also showed that low-income Kansans with mental illness are more likely to be smokers (40.1 percent.

but account for 24 percent of the adult population with mental illness. While smoking rates are highest among Kansans with mental illness the report found that adults with mental illness are more likely to have tried to quit smoking than those without mental illness.

The research showed 64.7 percent of Kansas smokers with mental illness made an attempt to quit compared to 55.3 percent of those without mental illness.

Additional findings include: -In 2012 10.2 percent of Kansas adults reported experiencing mental illness and 3. 4 percent of adults reported experiencing serious mental illness.

-Mental illness is associated significantly with poor physical health including health problems exacerbated by smoking. -Youth who reported mental illness were more than twice as likely to be current smokers (26.8 percent) as youth without mental illness (10.9 percent.

Our findings emphasize the importance of collaboration between the mental health and tobacco control communities to provide cessation support to individuals with mental illness who use tobacco Brown said.

To address the issue of tobacco use among those with mental illness and the challenges associated with making progress toward a solution the Kansas Health Foundation has launched a new effort to address tobacco use among Kansans with serious mental illness through its Fellows leadership program.

Through the years we've seen significant decreases in the percentage of Americans who smoke

but we've done very little to make strides in decreasing those rates among people with mental illness said Dr. Jeff Willett vice president for programs at the Kansas Health Foundation.

People with mental illness smoke at nearly double the rate of the general population. We see this collaborative effort being a call to action to both the mental health

and tobacco control communities. The report can be found online at: http://kansashealth. org/sites/default/files/T%26mi--Final 2. pdfstory Source:

The above story is provided based on materials by RTI International. Note: Materials may be edited for content and length h

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Schizophrenia, depression and other mental illnesses continue to be understood poorly by the public; at the worst, those who suffer from them are stigmatized in their communities.