The 10 by 10 Campaign - Wellness Update

Volume 7
July 6, 2009
Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)

Greetings! This is the summer 2009 update on the 10 by 10 Campaign to promote wellness for people with mental illnesses and reduce early mortality by 10 years over the next 10 year time period. In This Issue:

-Guest Columnist
-The truth about madness
-Wellness: What You Need to Know
-Risk: Fatal illness more likely in bipolar patients
-Mood disorders common in polycystic ovary syndrome
-Moving nation from sick care toward wellness care
-General exercise guidelines for people with disabilities
-Depression in cancer patients: inquire or don’t, but be concerned
-Studies try to tease apart the links between depression and hearth disease
-Social rejection linked with pain in depresses patients
-Poor mental health, asthma risk linked?
-Loneliness as harmful as smoking and obesity, say scientist
-Happenings All Over the Country
-Spread the Word
-An active campaigner for the Pledge for Wellness
-Quotes-of-the-Month

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