Mental Illness Diagnoses and Treatment

The former chairman of NYU's Department of Psychiatry and founder of the Mental Illness Prevention Center speaks about the most recent advancements in diagnosing and treating mental illness. This video was originally published at http://www.treatmentonline.com/treatments.php.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• depression
• mental
• illness
• psychiatry
• psychology
• genetics
• treatment
• diagnosis
• addiction
• anxiety
• depressed

[undercovamum]

its very hard to hear the video....im interested I can hardly understand the man

[JTSchnaars]

Unfortunately, that's as loud as we could get it with our editing software. It's a great interview, so do the best you can. Sorry bout that! Are headphones an option?

[BackInsight]

There is no mental illness. It is all about how one hold's them selves. Yes. You are judged by how you look. That's just the way it is. How you are judge affects who you are. Change for the better, that is how you change the world. Lengthen the spine, free the neck, then you can balance the head atop the shoulders. This is a subtle change and can happen while your are under the stress of changing. Good luck all.

[Ichirin145]

@CreativeEnergizer52 Everyone has emotions, but WHO decides which are normal and which arent?

[CreativeEnergizer52]

John Forbes Nash-Nobel Prize Laureate for mathemathics applied to economics. A born genius. He also is afflicted with paranoid schizophrenia. Do you think he caught it like catching a cold? Do you think he was dropped on his head? He was born with schizophrenia. Do you think he got it from breathing bad air? You can argue 'til you're blue in the face that it was an isolated congenital defect or you can go with the odds that somebody, somewhere in his family has paranoid schizophrenia.

[molyneux1000]

Could you give me the conclusive scientific evidence that would back up your claim "A lot of people are genetically predisposed to mental illness." Thanks

[LinuxKid27]

Thank you psychiatry for giving me P.T.S.D by forcing me to take medications against my will and to keep me as a prisoner in your so called hospital. I thank you for almost getting raped in your hospital. You say that your hospital is suppose to protect us, while people get raped all the time inside psych hospitals either by other patients or by YOU!! You really "cured" me from my mental illness. I should thank you more often.

[psychpatient101]

Hope you are doing well. :)

[CreativeEnergizer52]

Some of the meds along with psych. therapy saved my life. Some people are fortunate enough to be helped by therapy alone. I'm not one of those people. A lot of people are genetically predisposed to mental illness. It's tricky because it involves our minds and emotions and even trickier figuring out what is inherent and what isn't. Thank goodness for the professionals who know the difference and know what to do and thank goodness for patient (and family) education and finally mass media.