Anxiety and Depression

MENTAL HEALTH MONDAY…Army Misdiagnoses Hundreds with Personality Disorders Instead of PTSD

A new Associated Press article suggests that the U.S. Army may have misdiagnosed hundreds of soldiers with a personality disorder, rather than with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Soldiers who carry a diagnosis of a personality disorder often face being discharged, and find that their access to military and health benefits cut at the same time….

What? What!!! Why does everything look gray when you feel blue?

Regardless of culture, language, era, or individual artist, the arts consistently depict depression using darkness. Scientific findings now lend empirical support to this representation of depression that everything looks gray when you feel blue.  Researchers at the University of Freiburg in Germany showed previously that people with depression have difficulty detecting black-and-white contrast differences These…