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What motivates some teens to gun down fellow students in the hallways or grounds of their schools?
Perhaps a characteristic called "cynical shyness." This is an
extreme form of shyness affecting mostly males that can lead to violent
behavior such as that seen at Columbine, Colo., or, most recently,
Virginia Tech, according to researchers who were to present their
findings Saturday evening at the American Psychological Association's
annual meeting, in San Francisco.
"Cynically shy people are shy people who are motivated toward moving
to others, and then they are rejected," said Bernardo Carducci, lead
author of the study and director of the Shyness Research Institute at
Indiana University Southeast in New Albany.
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Repeated and ever-longer war-zone tours are putting increasing
pressure on military families, the Army said Thursday, helping push
soldier suicides to a record rate.
There were 99 Army suicides
last year - nearly half of them soldiers who hadn't reached their 25th
birthdays, about a third of them serving in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Col.
Elspeth Ritchie, psychiatry consultant to the Army surgeon general,
told a Pentagon press conference that the primary reason for suicide is
"failed intimate relationships, failed marriages."
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Why is Sunday night the cruelest night of the whole week to a person
with depression? You would think that all nights would be bad with
depression, which is basically true. But I think, without a doubt,
Sunday nights are the worst.
I
remember that when I was depressed, Sunday nights seemed like the
absolute pit of despair. They were even worse, in some ways, than
Monday morning. The cause boiled down to one thing: escapism. If you
work or go to school, weekends are, for the most part, the only time
you can use escapism to, well, escape from depression.
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In a press release dated July 23, 2007, the law firm Morrison and
Foerster, LLC filed a Veteran's Civil Rights Case alleging "‘shameful
failures' by the U.S. Department of Veteran's Affairs and other
government institutions to care for veterans who have returned from
Iraq and Afghanistan and are now suffering from post-traumatic stress
disorder (PTSD)."[1]
This is the first civil rights class action suit of its kind for
veterans against the Department of Veteran's Affairs, associated
veteran agencies, and the US Attorney General, Alberto Gonzales.
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People with clinical depression may be unable to "snap out of it"
because of faulty wiring in the brain, according to a new study
released.
Researchers who compared the way people with very severe depression
responded to negative stimuli relative to a group of healthy controls
found that the circuits involved in controlling emotions were disrupted
in the depressed individuals.
"The neural circuits involved with regulating emotions may be damaged
in people with this condition," said Tom Johnstone, a neuroscientist at
the University of Wisconsin-Madison's School of Medicine and Public
Health and lead author of the study published in the journal
Neuroscience on Tuesday.
One of the hallmarks of depression is that people with the condition
seem to be unable to pull themselves out of a funk or black mood.
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