Welcome to the 68th edition of Mental Health Resources News - March 13, 2001

~ Horses help Doctors Communicate
~ Why do young people murder?
~ 'Lethal Weapon Injuries Among Adolescents Decline
~ Elsewhere on About Estrogen Is Why The Caged Bird Sings
~ Featured Forum Thread

---- Horses help Doctors Communicate -----

Medical students at the University of Arizona College of Medicine have been getting sensitivity training in an unusual way. The class "Medicine & Horsemanship An Introduction to Human Nonverbal Interaction at the Bedside" teaches them to improve their communication with patients by teaching them to communicate with horses.

http://mentalhealth.about.com/library/weekly/aa031201a.htm

------ Why do young people murder? ------

Once again Americans and others around the world are trying to make sense of a senseless mass murder. When the victims and perpetrators are teenagers the act is even harder to comprehend. Why would high school students murder their classmates and teachers? What do such events say about our society?

http://mentalhealth.about.com/library/weekly/aa042699.htm

 ----- 'Lethal Weapon Injuries Among Adolescents Decline -----

New data suggest that a decline in adolescent intentional injury rates in the United States are related to a change in the lethality of fighting methods, according to an article in the March 2001 Annals of Emergency Medicine, the peer-reviewed journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians.

http://mentalhealth.about.com/library/sci/0301/blshoot301.htm

----- Estrogen Is Why The Caged Bird Sings -----
           from the Breast Cancer Guide

A study on birds finds that estrogen is the reason that their brains develops pathways to learn song. Estrogen also works in the human brain. What effect do anti-estrogens, like Tamoxifen, have on our ability to function?

http://breastcancer.about.com/library/weekly/aa031101a.htm

---------------- Featured Forum Thread --------------

Dealing with spouse's bipolar disorder

It felt to me more like he thought I was being irrational and that I should snap out of it -- when I genuinely felt I couldn't. So I am not sure if I have a question, or if I need to vent or what, but I guess I just want to know -- how do I deal with this illness of his? Does anyone else have suggestions? I have been going to therapy, but I had to cancel my last appointment because I couldn't afford it. I mean, I feel like I have a valid right to be upset that I didn't know these things, and yesterday -- I hate to put it this way, but it is how I felt -- I felt like my husband thought he was the only one who was allowed to be depressed. He isn't depressed right now, but he has been -- recently -- and I felt like I was supportive.

http://forums.about.com/ab-mentalhealth/messages?msg=816.1

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