May 8th, 2008
Last Thursday, Chato B. Stewart rocked our funny bones with his mental health humor. This Thursday, Ken Jensen puts us through psychiatric boot camp with his system for surviving bipolar disorder.
As if my nauseatingly incessant play on words didn’t give it away, 39-year-old Ken Jensen is a former soldier – not just any soldier, but […]
By Alicia Sparks, NAMI Affiliation Leader -- 1 comment
May 7th, 2008
I have some mental health news for you ladies and…well, just ladies, as this doesn’t really pertain to the gents; unless, of course, you’re looking to find mental health information for that special lady in your life!
Revolution Health, that lovely Web site that hosted the Revolution Health Online Health Fair last year, is at it […]
By Alicia Sparks, NAMI Affiliation Leader -- 1 comment
May 5th, 2008
In addition to May being Mental Health Awareness Month (or, simply Mental Health Month, depending on where you read about it), the week of May 4-10 is Children’s Mental Health Week and it kicked off with a bang yesterday (May 4) with Childhood Depression Awareness Day.
To help you better understand children’s mental health, or - […]
By Alicia Sparks, NAMI Affiliation Leader -- 2 comments
May 4th, 2008
Dear Megan,
The day is almost here. The day you leave the academic halls of MU behind for the sterilized halls of…whichever hospital it is you’ve decided to grace with your newly diploma-ed registered nursing experience. (I can’t keep up with your ever-changing mind.)
Aren’t you excited?!
We all sure are. Actually, I don’t know who’s more excited […]
By Alicia Sparks, NAMI Affiliation Leader -- 3 comments
May 3rd, 2008
For about the past year, I’ve been subscribed to a newsletter from Gimundo. The Web site’s slogan is “Good News…Served Daily.” Well…it’s not exactly served daily; for the last few months I didn’t receive one newsletter and forgot that I was even subscribed to it. However, over the past week they seem to have picked […]
By Alicia Sparks, NAMI Affiliation Leader -- 0 comments
May 3rd, 2008
Well, OK, you got me. Saturday Sanity doesn’t exactly keep the doctor away, but it does keep you up to date with what’s going on in the world of mental health, and that’s good too, right?
I talked about a lot of stuff this week here at Mental Health Notes. Not only did I get to […]
By Alicia Sparks, NAMI Affiliation Leader -- 2 comments
April 24th, 2008
Not only is April Cancer Control Month, but it’s also National Poetry Month!
As a writer, I can’t pass up the opportunity to share with you a list of poets with mental illness. These are just a few of the men and women who lived with mental illness and still managed to do what they loved […]
By Alicia Sparks, NAMI Affiliation Leader -- 6 comments
April 23rd, 2008
Did you know April is Cancer Control Month? It’s true, it’s true, and in honor of that we bloggers here at the b5media Health & Wellness Channel have decided this month’s theme day should focus on cancer.
Rather than try to choose just one topic pertaining to cancer and mental health - or going the obvious […]
By Alicia Sparks, NAMI Affiliation Leader -- 1 comment
April 22nd, 2008
My calendar tells me it’s…*drum roll please*… Earth Day! Yay!
Among my many passions (music, reading, writing, respecting grammar and the English language - I’m a nerd, I know - animals, and mental health) is being kind to the earth. And, indulging and advocating for my passions always gives my mental state a little boost in […]
By Alicia Sparks, NAMI Affiliation Leader -- 0 comments
April 19th, 2008
I’m really enjoying the new layout of Saturday Sanity. I think it’s doing a much better job of providing more Saturday Sanity-worthy links, don’t you?
Anyway…
First, let’s take a look back at some of the things that have gone on here at Mental Health Notes this week. We kicked off the stress-busting Goin’ to the Chapel […]
By Alicia Sparks, NAMI Affiliation Leader -- 1 comment
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