Mental Health News

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Victims of human trafficking have often experienced, witnessed, or have been confronted with an event or events that involved actual or threatened death or serious injury, or a threat to the physical integrity of self or others and their response to these events frequently involves intense fear, helplessness, or horror.  This exposure and common reaction are two of the main criteria for PTSD (American Psychiatric Association [APA], 2005, p. 467). 

Some signs that your relationship may be toxic include:

• not feeling safe
• being emotionally and financially dependent on your partner
• feeling unhappy
• walking on eggshells around your partner
• doubting yourself
• not being able to say or do things you wish you could

Most people experience passive-aggressive traits once in a while. Snapping at your boss with a snide comment, for example, may be your way of begrudgingly taking on an assignment you didn’t want.

A passive-aggressive personality, however, is one where negative feelings are regularly expressed through patterns of indirect, often hostile behaviors. Always meeting conflict with procrastination, for example, can be a behavioral pattern seen in a passive-aggressive personality.

The House Committee on Defense & Veterans' Affairs will meet in a public hearing and hear invited and public testimony to consider the following interim charge:     Examine programs and funding streams connected to services that improve mental health outcomes for servicemen and women suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI).

2022 Legislation Update  Texas Human Trafficking Awareness Training for Hotel Employees On May 18, 2021  Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed legislation (HB 390) mandating that hotel, motel, inn, or similar business operators with more than 10 rooms offering fee-based temporary lodging require each of their employees to complete an annual human trafficking awareness and prevention training program. 

Up to 80 percent of children in foster care have significant mental health issues, compared to approximately 18-22 percent of the general population.  As a result of these increased mental health issues, foster youth are prescribed psychotropic medications at a much higher rate than non-foster youth, costing the state, through fee-for-service programs such as Medicaid, millions of dollars a year.