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Homosexuality debate

...homosexual behavior was considered a mental disorder. In 1973, the American Psychiatric...removed homosexuality as a mental disorder from the APA's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-II). The decision was...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/open-forum/2013-05-08/homosexuality-debate
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Mental illness

...really like to live with mental illness."My story is one of hope and inspiration to not just those who deal with mental disorders, but for those who know of someone that struggles with anxiety and severe depression," he says.Nelson credits...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/open-forum/2013-04-12/mental-illness
Open Forum

...really like to live with mental illness."My story is one of hope and inspiration to not just those who deal with mental disorders, but for those who know of someone that struggles with anxiety and severe depression," he says.Nelson credits...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/open-forum/2013-04-15
Open Forum
State senators take their finger off trigger to ban guns, magazines

...think they thought they had the votes."Latz's committee held hearings late last week to prevent people with mental disorders and felons from obtaining guns.One thing is certain: Those who value the Second Amendment must remain vigilant...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/2013-02-24/state-senators-take-their-finger-
Opinion
To stop future mass killers, treat mentally ill children

...His brutal final act, however, suggests he had a mental disorder.Lanza would hardly be the first troubled young person...bills.This is a minimal investment, given that mental disorders in the young lead to behavior such as substance abuse...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/guest-columns/2012-12-25/stop-future-mass-ki
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Opinions of gay marriage around the world

BANGKOK (AP) - China's government considered homosexuality a mental disorder until 2001. Mobs in Senegal have disinterred bodies of men they believe were gays and dragged them through the streets. In Egypt...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/2012-05-10/opinions-gay-marriage-around-worl
Opinion
Safety net needs mending

...awards is mental illness," which accounted for 20 percent of awards in the past decade, although the prevalence of mental disorders in that time has not changed.Because of the entwined nature of the Social Security retirement and disability systems...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/other-opinion/2012-05-13/safety-net-needs-me
Other Opinion
Attorneys argue whether Xerox gunman was sane during killing spree

...from a serious mental illness on the day of the shootings,'' Ching said. ''And as a result of Mr. Uyesugi's mental disorder, he lacked substantial capacity to appreciate the wrongfulness of his conduct at the time of the shootings...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/051600/nne_0516000007.shtml
News
Pediatricians pay extra attention to ADHD

...guidelines, published recently in the journal Pediatrics, are based on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM-IV, an 846-page bible of behaviors published in 1994 by the American Psychiatric Association. To meet...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/052000/hea_0520000066.shtml
Health
Buchanan's VP had checkered career

...compensation payments for a year for a mental disorder she now says she did not have...Latino school. The diagnosis of a mental disorder -- which she declined to specify...But although she claimed a mental disorder to receive the benefits, she...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/082400/pol_0824000011.shtml
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