Mental Health Notes

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 15th, 2008

Harry Potter Saved Rowling’s Sanity

According to a recent Salon.com article, J.K. Rowling told a U.S. District Court judge that the Harry Potter books “saved [her] sanity” (Rowling: Potter Reference Book Is Theft).
From the article:
In sometimes emotional testimony, Rowling recalled starting work on the first book in 1991 when she was 25 and so destitute that she sometimes had to […]

By Alicia Sparks, NAMI Affiliation Leader -- 1 comment

April 4th, 2008

Of Disloyal House Elves And Guilt-Stricken Humans

In J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series, house elves “are small humanoid creatures who inhabit large houses belonging to wealthy Wizarding families” (HP Lexicon). House elves are the servants of these Wizarding families and are, for the most part, very loyal to their Wizarding families.
Some house elves even punish themselves when they feel they’ve been disloyal […]

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July 10th, 2007

Harry Potter: A Cure for Depression?

Here’s a new one for you: Reading the books of the Harry Potter series could help minor/low-grade depression.
I can’t take credit for that idea (and at present don’t know if I’d want to) - it’s from a 2003 article, Mental Health Benefits of Harry Potter, written by Jeff Stoyanoff and featured at MuggleNet.
(For those of […]

By Alicia Sparks, NAMI Affiliation Leader -- 3 comments