Mental Health Notes

Saturday Sanity: New Blogs, Articles, Resources, And Reports

by Alicia Sparks, NAMI Affiliation Leader on March 15th, 2008

Nutrition, drug abuse, pregnant teens, and new blogs - it’s all part of this week’s Saturday Sanity!

• Did you know March is National Nutrition Month? In honor of that, we here at the b5media Science & Health Channel chose nutrition as the topic for our monthly theme day. See what I had to say about brain-boosting foods, then check out the wisdom the rest of the gang passed on. And don’t forget to thank Ruth at Eating Fabulous for hosting this month!
• A Mental Health Notes reader wrote to me this week to let me know about the many mental health-related articles New York Times writer Benedict Carey has written for the publication. Upon searching the publication’s archives, I found that Carey has indeed written a plethora of articles about topics ranging from brain enhancement to gunmen and antidepressants to autism to perfectionism. Check them out.
• Another Mental Health Notes reader has decided to put her years of teaching experience to another kind of use - blogging. Reflections of a Teacher is about a plethora of student- and mental health-related issues such as violence, bullying, and parent involvement. The blog is in its infant stage and could use some participation from readers like you!
• Go with your gut – intuition is more than just a hunch, says Leeds research. According to Professor Gerard Hodgkinson (Centre for Organisational Strategy, Learning and Change at Leeds University Business School) and his team of researchers, intuition and “gut feelings” aren’t just reasons to open our own psychic hotlines. They’re actually “the result of the way our brains store, process and retrieve information on a subconscious level and so is a real psychological phenomenon which needs further study to help us harness its potential.”
• Reuters has been on top of the mental health scene in the past couple of weeks reporting drug use and mental health issues by state (I was surprised to see my home state falls smack in the middle), a higher number of black teen mothers become depressed and pregnant again than white teen mothers (this is actually something I think I saw when I was in high school), psychological distress, rather than depression, is linked with strokes, college students are abusing prescription medication (gee, you don’t say), and mental health issues are associated with physical health issues and bad habits (gee, you don’t say, again).

Remember, if you have any Saturday Sanity-worthy news, feel free to send it my way!

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