The number of people in Japan declared eligible for compensation for mental illnesses caused by stress, overwork and other workplace-related factors totaled 498 in fiscal 2016, the most since comparable data emerged in fiscal 1983, the health ministry said in a report. The figure for ...
On a global scale, the magnitude of undiagnosed and unaddressed mental health problems remains high.
This is the happiest time in the history of the world, and Japan is among the happiest of countries. That should be true. It's not, obviously. Why? Globally, prosperity is wider spread and poverty less abysmal than ever before. Technology enables not only the mighty few ...
Britain's world heavyweight boxing champion Tyson Fury has been drinking and using cocaine to help him deal with depression, he told Rolling Stone magazine in an interview released on Tuesday. "I've been out drinking, Monday to Friday to Sunday, and taking cocaine. I can't deal ...
'I've always been shy," says Kazuo. "Face-to-face communication never came easily to me." At 48, he's been out of work five years. He lives with his mother, who's close to 80 — mostly off her pension. A typical day — typical not only of ...
A certified legal specialist on labor and social security matters has been suspended from a professional association in Aichi Prefecture after posting tips online about ways to make employees suffer depression. The Labor and Social Security Attorneys’ Association in the prefecture decided last Friday that ...
Fearing he was going blind, the co-pilot who slammed a Germanwings jet into the Alps took sick days at work, upped his dosage of an antidepressant, and reached out to doctors, but they didn't tell his employer they thought he was unfit to fly ...
Lufthansa said on Monday it was not required to inform German aviation authorities about Andreas Lubitz's former depression because he qualified as a pilot before stricter reporting rules went into effect in 2013. Lubitz, a co-pilot at Lufthansa's budget division Germanwings, is believed to have ...
The German aviation authority did not know about co-pilot Andreas Lubitz's medical background prior to the Germanwings crash that killed 150 people, it told Reuters on Sunday, raising more questions over medical oversight of pilots. Lubitz, believed to have deliberately steered the plane into a ...
A growing number of Japanese children are being prescribed psychotropic drugs to treat depression, attention deficit hyperactivity disorders (ADHD) and schizophrenia, according to a study by government-funded medical institutes. In particular, the number of ADHD drug prescriptions for patients aged between 13 and 18 years ...
The autopsy of Robin Williams found no alcohol or illegal drugs were in his body when he killed himself at his Northern California home in August, sheriff's officials said Friday. The results, released by the Marin County sheriff's office, found that the actor had taken ...
Actor/comedian Robin Williams' death has brought attention to the fact that men in the United States commit suicide about four times more often than women do.
