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Mental Health Notes

Archive for the ‘Mind Mysteries’ Category

May 10th, 2008

Lewis & Bushey: Incarcerated For Causing Mental Health Harm To Children

Today marks the end of Children’s Mental Health Week, and it seems like I just keep running into sad and…odd mental health news related to children.
Case in point:
Tammy Lewis, mother to a 15-year-old daughter and a 12-year-old son, and self-described bishop Alan Bushey are in custody on “felony counts of being a party to causing […]

By Alicia Sparks, NAMI Affiliation Leader -- 1 comment

May 5th, 2008

Austrian Father Josef Fritzl To Plead Insanity

In keeping with the children and mental health theme (though, on a much more disturbing level), after last week I knew it was only a matter of time before I was passing this information along to you:
AMSTETTEN, Austria - The lawyer for the Austrian man who allegedly imprisoned his daughter for 24 years and fathered […]

By Alicia Sparks, NAMI Affiliation Leader -- 6 comments

April 28th, 2008

Austrian Family Presents Psychiatrists With Bizarre Case

With it’s themes of incest and secretly imprisoning children, this is quite the Flowers in the Attic-type story; only, it’s more like Flowers in the Basement.
Oh, and unlike the V.C. Andrews novel, this isn’t fiction.
A 42-year-old Austrian woman, simply identified as Elisabeth F., has been rescued from her 73-year-old father’s windowless basement cell, where she […]

By Alicia Sparks, NAMI Affiliation Leader -- 4 comments

March 15th, 2008

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

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 […]

By Alicia Sparks, NAMI Affiliation Leader -- 0 comments

February 23rd, 2008

Like Sands Through The Hourglass…

…so is the sanity of our Saturday. Or, um…so are the Saturdays of our sanity? But, it’s just one Saturday?
*sigh*
So much for my attempt at a clever spin on the “Days of Our Lives” Macdonald Carey voiceover.
Enjoy the this week’s Saturday Sanity folks!

Diane Dardon, the Northern Illinois University Lutheran Campus Pastor, writes to Mental Health […]

By Alicia Sparks, NAMI Affiliation Leader -- 0 comments

February 20th, 2008

Northern Illinois University Lutheran Campus Pastor Contacts Mental Health Notes

Last Saturday, I posted my thoughts about the six white crosses placed on “snow hill” at Northern Illinois University.
My thoughts (which, in that post, were centered around Steven Kazmierczak’s alleged mental illness and his name being left off the sixth blank cross) unfortunately drew a negative reaction from one of Kazmierczak’s victim’s relatives. I attempted […]

By Alicia Sparks, NAMI Affiliation Leader -- 5 comments

February 16th, 2008

Stay Current For Sanity’s Sake!

There’s less money for your health care, Valentine’s Day isn’t quite over at Mental Health Notes, and you, too, can be an A.S.S.

You still have until tonight at midnight to enter MHN’s Love: It’s All In My Head Valentine’s Day Contest - so get over there and tell me one way you can show love […]

By Alicia Sparks, NAMI Affiliation Leader -- 0 comments

January 5th, 2008

Religion, ESP, And Light Therapy For Bipolar Disorder

From anxiety levels among religious women to testing for ESP, this Saturday Sanity is sure to teach you something new.

Women Who Stay Religious Less Likely to Have Anxiety Disorder. I’m not a religious person, though I have found that when I’m paying more attention to God and prayer than to the physical world around me, […]

By Alicia Sparks, NAMI Affiliation Leader -- 3 comments

December 29th, 2007

Saturday Sanity: Post Holidays

Howdy readers! It’s the first Saturday Sanity since the holidays (most of them, anyway), and I must say it’s a hodgepodge of random updates and tidbits. Hopefully there will be a little something for everyone.

Just a reminder to check out the interesting video posted yesterday, and leave your thoughts!
Brain Abnormalities Underlying Key Element Of Borderline […]

By Alicia Sparks, NAMI Affiliation Leader -- 1 comment

October 29th, 2007

Update: First-Hand Experience With Body Integrity Identity Disorder

On Friday, I posted my most recent feelings of frustration with Grey’s Anatomy - namely, the way the writers wrote in a small storyline regarding a man who, to me, seemed to have Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID), but blatantly ignored this character both on the show and in the writers’ room.
I am very fortunate […]

By Alicia Sparks, NAMI Affiliation Leader -- 1 comment

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