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Mental Health Notes

May 5th, 2008

Resources & Support For Children’s Mental Health Week

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, Mental Health Notes -- 2 comments

March 1st, 2008

Historic Vote: Comprehensive Mental Health/Substance Use Parity Bill

I received an email from Mental Health America regarding a House of Representatives vote on a comprehensive mental health/substance use parity bill Wednesday, March 5, 2008. I’m sharing this email in hopes that each of you will take any of the suggested actions before March 5.
Dear Alicia,
Sustaining the momentum you helped launch, the House of […]

By Alicia Sparks, Mental Health Notes -- 0 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, Mental Health Notes -- 0 comments

January 7th, 2008

10 Ways To Help Pay For Prescription Medications

October 2007’s post Cymbalta: The Withdrawal Symptoms From Hell continues to generate new comments on an almost daily basis. Why shouldn’t it? After suffering through the withdrawal symptoms of Cymbalta myself, I learned that many others have gone through, and are still going through, the same misery.
A few days ago, one Mental Health Notes reader […]

By Alicia Sparks, Mental Health Notes -- 4 comments

July 26th, 2007

Damage Control: How To Deal With Losing Mental Health Care Coverage

Tuesday I told you about the shaky mental health care services in Asheville, North Carolina and briefly touched on Antidepressant Discontinuation Syndrome (ADS), the affliction many folks suffer when they abruptly stop taking their antidepressants.
Keep in mind that ADS isn’t the only negative outcome of losing mental health care coverage - not by a long […]

By Alicia Sparks, Mental Health Notes -- 0 comments