Sentences with phrase «mental health catastrophe»

The group recently wrote to U.S. Congress, urging lawmakers to address climate change to avoid a mental health catastrophe.

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The federal Education Department's proposed slashing of student mental - health and school - safety funds could lead to catastrophe, US Sen. Chuck Schumer warned Sunday.

Any one with mental health issues or a severe family breakdown becomes disassociated with and unattached to the very society around them and when no one is paying attention to the warning signs (they are always there in hindsight) the catastrophes happen.

A year after the Fukushima reactor catastrophe, we can start to estimate its effects on people's medical and mental health.

As I argued in these columns some days ago, the even better question may be: What can we do to stop the state and national impact of these floods and other climatic catastrophes being used as an excuse to decrease public community health, Aboriginal health and mental health service spending, just when demand for them is likely to grow exponentially and plateau at a new peak, because of the irretrievable losses, long - lasting «slow - burn disaster» and wearing - down effects of these events?

Then, as if seamlessly, she segued into this next sentence: «In the 1980s and «90s, people all over the country filed scores of legal cases accusing parents, priests and day care workers of horrific sex crimes, which they claimed to have only just remembered with the help of a therapist... But as the claims grew more outlandish — alien abductions and secret satanic cults — support for the concept waned... Harvard psychologist Richard McNally called the idea of repressed memories «the worst catastrophe to befall the mental health field since the lobotomy `.»