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Thursday 4 September 2008

Distinguishing A Bad Mood From Depression In Teenagers, From The Harvard Mental Health Letter

�The teenage years ar a time of aroused highs and lows. So how do you signalize normal teenaged mood swings and uprising from actual depression? The September 2008 issue of the Harvard Mental Health Letter highlights some ways to say.

Although depression can occur at any age, it affects teens more than younger children. Depressive symptoms may pop appearing around age 13, and much peaks between 16 and 24. Yet depression can be unmanageable to name in lester Willis Young people, because symptoms seldom involve mode alone. One study ended that fewer than half of teenager patients suffered mainly from depressive symptoms. More often, they developed a mix of climate and behavioural problems, for example, agitation, anxiety, attention difficulties, or defiant behaviors.

Many schools have implemented screening programs to name teens at risk as well as programs to prevent depression. These programs generally cultivate staff and students around depression and suicide, furnish advice and practice in challenging negative thinking, and seek to build resiliency and problem solving skills. The most effective programs are those that are enforced consistently and on an ongoing basis.

Dr. Michael Miller, editor in chief of the Harvard Mental Health Letter, says experts have identified the following ways to distinguish mode swings from depression in adolescents:

- Severity: The more marked the symptoms (changes in mood, behaviors, feelings, thoughts), the more likely that the problem is depression and non a passing play mood.

- Duration: Any deterioration in behavior or mood that lasts deuce weeks or longer, without a fail, may betoken depression.

- Domains: Problems noticed in several areas of a teen's functioning-at home, in school, and in interactions with friends-may indicate depression.

Also in this issue:

- Helping psychiatric patients stop smoking

- Losing an adult sib

- Bright lights and dementia

- Happiness from giving money away

- Social networks and memory

The Harvard Mental Health Letter is available from Harvard Health Publications, the publication division of Harvard Medical School, for $24 per year. Subscribe at hypertext transfer protocol://www.health.harvard.edu/mental or by calling 877-649-9457 (toll-free).

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Thursday 7 August 2008

Al Di Meola and Leonid Agutin

Artist: Al Di Meola and Leonid Agutin

   Genre(s):
Pop

Discography:

Cosmopolitan Life

Year: 2005
Tracks: 10

Friday 27 June 2008

Theory In Practice

Artist: Theory In Practice

   Genre(s):
Metal: Death,Black

Discography:

Colonizing The Sun

Year: 2002
Tracks: 9

The Armageddon Theories

Year: 1999
Tracks: 8

Third Eye Function

Year: 1997
Tracks: 9

Hariharan

Sunday 22 June 2008

Shane MacGowan

Artist: Shane MacGowan

   Genre(s):
Folk

Discography:

The Crock Of Gold

Year: 1997
Tracks: 17

The Snake

Year: 1994
Tracks: 12

A surpassing singer/songwriter and two-fisted gutter poet whose infamous sottish doings, stinky teeth and drug-fueled excesses often threatened to occult his reputation as a performer, Shane MacGowan was born on Christmas Day, 1957 in Kent, England. Within months, his home returned to their native Ireland, where he spent the first base respective eld of his life immersed in the traditional music of the Irish culture. When MacGowan was six, the family touched to London; in that location his talents as a writer gradually blossomed, and he won a number of poetry contests prior to his projection from schoolhouse at the age of 14 for ownership of drugs. In 1976, he attended his first base Sex Pistols concert, and quickly became a regular at local punk shows; he before long formed his possess band, the Nipple Erectors (renamed the Nips later on cathartic their 1978 debut single "King of the Bop"). Despite finding a mentor in the Jam's Paul Weller, the Nips were for the most part unsuccessful, and disbanded in late 1980; MacGowan so took a chore in a record storage, now and then filling in with his admirer Spider Stacy's stripe the Millwall Chainsaws.

When the Chainsaws shortly split up as well, MacGowan and Stacy formed the Pogues -- originally dubbed Pogue Mahone, Gaelic for "osculation my piece of tail" -- along with accordionist James Fearnley, bassist Cait O'Riordan, guitar player Jem Finer, and drummer Andrew Rankin. Hot-wiring traditional Irish music with the energy and passionateness of punk, the Pogues chop-chop developed into ane of the to the highest degree well-thought-of and colourful bands of their epoch, scoring a number of U.K. hits including "A Pair of Brown Eyes" and "Fairy story of New York" and recording such superb LPs as 1985's Elvis Costello-produced Rum, Sodomy and the Lash and 1988's If I Should Fall From Grace With God. However, as stories of MacGowan's voracious appetence for alcoholic drink and drugs swelled to mythological proportions, he grew increasingly undependable, often missing live performances (including a series of 1988 dates hatchway for Bob Dylan). By the fall of 1991, the other Pogues had eventually had enough, and he was dismissed from the band. As MacGowan's imbibition problem worsened, many feared for his life; apart from a 1992 duet with Nick Cave on "What a Wonderful World," he was largely silent for several years, making only the occasional bibulous concert or tv set appearance. In 1994, however, he silenced critics by pulling himself together to form a young band, the Popes; after making a fitting St. Patrick's Day debut carrying into action at a London taphouse, the mathematical group -- which likewise included guitar player Paul McGuinness, bassist Berni France, drummer Danny Pope, tenor banjoist Tom McAnimal, guitar player Kieran 'Mo' O'Hagan and whistle histrion Colm O'Maonlai -- entered the studio to commence recording their first LP, dubbed The Snake. "Haunted," a gorgeous duet with Sinead O'Connor, later became a minor hit; McGowan's followup, Lonesome Highway, appeared in 1997.

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Saturday 14 June 2008

Young Jeezy Releases Free The Prime Minister Mixtape

Young Jeezy is releasing a free mixtape today (Saturday June 14th) called 'The Prime Minister', which will be available to download as of tonight.

The mix will fill the gap before the rapper releases his awaited third studio album 'The Recession' later on this year.

Fans wanting the mix can find it at the recently launched usda2day.com site.

Young Jeezy also features on the Blood Raw debut album 'My Life The True Testimony', which is released next week (June 17th) via CTE / Def Jam. Jeezy appears on the song 'Louie'.

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