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Archive for the ‘Postpartum Depression’ Category

May 13th, 2008

Join The Health & Wellness Channel In Recognizing Mental Health Month!

Yipee! It’s the Health & Wellness Channel’s monthly theme day, and I’m super excited because not only am I finally hosting, but the theme is mental health in honor of May being Mental Health Month!
My fellow b5media bloggers have really pulled together and presented some great information this month, so grab a cup of coffee […]

By Alicia Sparks, NAMI Affiliation Leader -- 7 comments

April 19th, 2008

Saturday Sanity: Upgrade Your Brain

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

April 12th, 2008

Saturday Sanity: Your Brain’s Weekly Smorgasbord Of Sanitylicious

I’m trying a bit of a different style for Saturday Sanity. Let me know what you think!

First up, let me refresh your memory regarding some of the more interesting things that went on at Mental Health Notes this week: The Lolcats paid us a visit, Boston Legal made me proud, the folks opposing the postpartum […]

By Alicia Sparks, NAMI Affiliation Leader -- 4 comments

April 9th, 2008

Postpartum Depression Legislation: Beneficial Or Conspiratorial?

Back in January, I notified you all of an advocacy alert regarding the Melanie Blocker-Stokes Postpartum Depression Research and Care Act (S.1375) from the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA).
Yesterday I received another advocacy alert from the DBSA. This one was also related to postpartum depression and S.1375 (and the House’s version, H.R. 20), only […]

By Alicia Sparks, NAMI Affiliation Leader -- 9 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

January 28th, 2008

Postpartum Depression: The Melanie Stokes Mother’s Act

From the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance:
REVISED ALERT: Postpartum Depression - Time is Short!
Alicia here is the REVISED Advocacy Alert:
WE NEED YOUR HELP NOW!
Click here to send a letter!
Committee scheduled to vote on this legislation at the end of this month!
Last year Senator Dick Durbin, co-sponsored vital mental health legislation to address postpartum depression, the […]

By Alicia Sparks, NAMI Affiliation Leader -- 5 comments

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