SM Journal of Psychiatry & Mental Health

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Stigma in Employment Toward Persons with Mental Illness in Japan

In Japan, there is a recognized need for further research into stigma in the workplace toward persons with mental illness. Toward that end, I will discuss here two studies that we have conducted with the aim of (I) elucidating the stigma experienced in the workplace by persons with mental illness, and (II) elucidating employers’ attitudes toward persons with mental illness.

Hatsumi Yoshii* 


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Clinical Symptoms in Female Patients of University Psychological Counseling

International literature has detected high levels of academic stress in students of universities and colleges, which manifests itself with clinical symptoms [1] and constitutes an obstacle to the activation of adaptive, functional and coping responses

Giulia Savarese*, Luna Carpinelli, Oreste Fasano, Monica Mollo, Nadia Pecoraro and Antonio Iannaccone 


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Pre-Tibial Edema Associated with Quetiapine: Five Case Series

It is known that edema is a rare side effect of quetiapine. Until now only nine cases of peripheral edema related to quetiapine have been reported in the literature. We have determined five cases of pretibial edema associated with quetiapine during two years period of time. The common feature of these cases reported here are comorbid medical disorders, such as venous insufficiency, bladder tumor, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes mellitus with excessive elevation of blood sugar. Although treatment protocol of edema and those comorbid medical diseases have been applied separately, at the end of these treatments it is seen that PTE has not been resolved. In all cases reported here that when the dose of quetiapine is reduced, it is observed that PTE is reduced or disappeared. This result brings to mind that there could be a relation between edema and quetiapine.

Hayriye Dilek Hamurcu¹*, Ersin Hatice Karslıoğlu¹, Mehmet Öztürk¹, Elvan Özalp¹ and Ali Çayköylü²


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Stress and Anxiety for the University Students

T he scientific literature has highlighted how the incoming and outgoing transitions through the university represent stressful moments for students. Generally, an adaptation of one’s self it’s needed

Giulia Savarese*, Luna Carpinelli, Oreste Fasano, Monica Mollo, Nadia Pecoraro, Pierpaolo Cavallo 


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Brother against Brother: Family Affairs

War, quarrel, and some conflict were devastating. In some family for reasons of emotion, influence by other people, ideology, honor, politics, geography or the simple environment, elder brother can find themselves on opposing sides of a war and force them to be in facing battlefield. If we searching the reason for the quarrel between incent brothers, there may be the negligible reason. In straightforward, reasons for the quarrel were not very big.

Ashok Pandey