Today the public complains that psychiatrists seem ready to call every state of mental distress an illness.

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Significant mental distress will affect one in four of us in our lifetime.

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Mind estimates that in any one year one in four adults will suffer from some form of mental distress or illness.

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The lawyers also noted that most of the techniques, including waterboarding, have long been used on military personnel as part of survival-training programmes without any lasting physical harm or mental distress.

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Dr Mathew White and colleagues at the European Centre for the Environment and Human Health found that individuals reported less mental distress and higher life satisfaction when they were living in greener areas.

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The decline of mental health services at a time of rising social distress and exploding gun sales has created a toxic mix that is uniquely American.

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He counseled feuding married couples, families in distress and criminal defendants who were found not guilty by reason of insanity in his forensic mental health work for Contra Costa County in California.

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On the establishment side, hard-liners with a cold, clinical approach to healing and no appreciation for the humanistic, intuitive aspects of helping people in distress, and who are dismissive as my psychiatrist was of any connection between nutrition and mental health, provide ideological bullets for alternative practitioners, who are able to portray themselves as offering a more humane, caring, supportive context for healing.

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