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Have you all heard about Frank Calloway, the 112-year-old man who has lived in mental health hospitals and long-term care facilities since being diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1952?
What? An old guy living in a nursing home? What’s interesting about that? you may be wondering. Well, not much, but when you add in that Calloway is […]
Friday I asked you if mental health was going to play a role in the way you voted this November, and coincidentally, I received an email from Barack Obama Saturday letting me know about his stance on mental health parity.
Yeah, I know, I didn’t really get an email from Barack Obama, but after I sent […]
EDIT: Wendy has updated with the first, long(er) version of the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince movie trailer.
Anyone who’s read Mental Health Notes for any respectable amount of time knows I have a serious obsession with Harry Potter. Like, serious.
Even more serious than my obsession with Wentworth Miller Prison Break.
And that’s pretty serious.
So, like […]
It’s July 26, and for completely random reasons, it’s time for another edition of What Do You Really Want?
Since the last edition of What Do You Really Want?, there’s been a pretty well-balanced mix of serious and hilarious searches. So, I thought I’d represent them both. And, hopefully I’ve been able to point you in […]
Aside from suffering a would-be job disappointment, I had a pretty productive week. I got a good bit of work done, caught up with some snail mail, finally found the perfect collar for Chopper, hung flyers for our next NAMI meeting and ensured it would be announced on the news, in the paper, and in […]
This morning, Mental Health America’s Advocacy Network sent an email asking me (and anyone else who’s signed up for their emails) to sign a petition so they can “collect signatures from Americans who want the candidates and political parties to recognize the importance of mental health and substance use issues.” The petition will be delivered […]
Picture it: West Virginia, July 22, 2008. It was a particularly hot and humid summer day, when a dark-haired freelance writer decided to take a break from researching the real estate market in Texas and procrastinate by surfing the Web focus her attention instead on the news. Much to her dismay, she found out her […]
Statistics tell us that women are more likely than men to deal with certain mental health issues, and I covered this very topic over at Kristen King’s fabulous Lively Women blog with my guest post Top 5 Mental Health Concerns for Women.
Head on over and check it out!
Tags: kristen king, lively women, mental health blog, […]
Last week I received a request from a Mental Health Notes reader wishing to see a post regarding smoking and mental illness - specifically, the effects of quitting smoking on people with mental illness:
Alicia, can you please make a posting about the effects of quitting smoking on people with mental illness. The challenges of it, […]
On their own, the words “mental” and “illness” usually strike some degree of fear in the average person. Together, they can get the ball rolling for panic to set in.
Throw “schizophrenia” into the mix?
Well, you may just have yourself the makings of full blown terror.
The National Institute of Mental Illness defines schizophrenia as “a chronic, […]
Written by Alicia Sparks [email] for b5media.
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