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Mental illness

"Making a positive difference keeps Sarah motivated"

One morning dementia caregiver Sarah Mould was quickly trying to get a client ready for the day. Suddenly, the cap to a bottle of talcum powder came off, and there was powder everywhere. It sifted down on them like snow. The client, who normally didn...
Dec 04, 2012
Health

"MWI to offer training in mental health first aid"

More than 100 people have been admitted to the Mid Atlantic Wellness Institute for depression in the last five years. With the number expected to increase, the institution yesterday announced it would begin training as part of a mental health first a...
Oct 09, 2012
Opinion Writer

"Actors and psychotherapists. Two sides of the same coin"

Carpenters and plumbers have tools with which to work. One uses hammers, saws, chalk lines, and so forth to frame up walls and construct buildings. The other uses wrenches and pipes to make sure water runs smoothly through such buildings. Other prof...
Jun 05, 2012
Crime

"Residents concerned about schizophrenic roaming the streets"

A “very dangerous” schizophrenic is roaming the streets just two months after he was sentenced to an indefinite period in a mental hospital for an unprovoked and brutal attack on his neighbour. Shiloh Payne has been spotted on several occasions in t...
Dec 13, 2011
Other

"US woman in air rage incident committed for mental assessment"

A US woman has been held in Bermuda under the Mental Health Act after her disruptive behaviour forced an aircraft to return to the Island. Police said the woman is being detained for assessment at the Mid-Atlantic Wellness Institute. Sunday’s JetBlue...
Oct 13, 2011
Court

"Bermuda needs mental health court, says judge"

A judge yesterday repeated long-standing calls for Bermuda to have a Mental Health Court in the wake of the Shiloh Payne case. As reported in today’s edition, Payne, a 27-year-old schizophrenic, launched a brutal and unprovoked attack on his neighbou...
Oct 06, 2011
Court

"Schizophrenic confined to mental hospital after attack"

A schizophrenic has been sentenced to an indefinite period in a mental hospital after stabbing his neighbour and trying to hit him with a concrete block. Supreme Court heard that the “very dangerous” Shiloh Payne launched the unprovoked attack on Ran...
Oct 06, 2011
Other

"Confronting autism through music"

The last time Marcia Scraders enrolled her special needs son Omori in nursery school in Bermuda, the placement lasted all of an hour. She arrived at the school to find the teacher chasing Omori back and forth across the room, unable to catch him. Sh...
Aug 11, 2011

"A patient’s perspective on mental health care"

Local physicians heard firsthand from a former psychiatric patient how unsettling and traumatising the actions of health care workers can be on their patients. Alan Rowland, of Birmingham, England, gave a detailed account of the events that eventuall...
Jan 11, 2011
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