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Mental Health Notes - News, Education and Advocacy

November 19th, 2008

If You Suffer From Depression…

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Just a little mid-week funny.

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By Alicia Sparks, Mental Health Notes -- 2 comments

November 18th, 2008

Elgin Mental Health Center Resident Dies: Homicide By Negligence

Tammy Lewis may have recently received some good news, but Virdia Spain and Iluminada Tuzon most certainly have not.
According to the Chicago Tribune, Spain and Tuzon, employees of the Elgin Mental Health Center in Illinois, have each been “charged with a felony count of abuse of a long-term health-care facility resident” after a coroner’s jury […]

By Alicia Sparks, Mental Health Notes -- 2 comments

November 17th, 2008

Do Unhappy People Watch More TV?

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As I gear up for tonight’s episode of Prison Break, now seems as good a time as any to nod in the direction of the research I kept bumping into this weekend regarding happy people vs. unhappy people when it comes to watching television.
The article I read all the way through […]

By Alicia Sparks, Mental Health Notes -- 4 comments

November 15th, 2008

Saturday Sanity: The News Is More Important

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Well, we’re, what…two weeks into November? And NaNoWriMo is not going as well as I hoped it would. Don’t get me wrong - it’s going much better than last year’s. I just thought I’d be farther along than I am right now. Still, any progress on this book is a blessing!
On […]

By Alicia Sparks, Mental Health Notes -- 6 comments

November 14th, 2008

Interesting “Mental Health” Performing Arts

So…I found this video on YouTube. It’s called “Mental Health Excerpts” (apparently it’s a compilation of snippets from a longer piece called “Mental Health,” or so the introduction tells me), and aside from that fact that it’s grouped in the “Dance,” “Performing Arts,” “Contemporary Art,” and “Choreography Art” categories, I don’t know much else […]

By Alicia Sparks, Mental Health Notes -- 2 comments

November 13th, 2008

Are Your Dreams Telling You You’re Stressed?

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Anyone remember that dream I had about being on a prison elevator that was essentially trying to kill me?
No?
Well, I do. It was scary.
Anyway, after decoding the dream, I found out some of the symbols (prison, elevator, convict) basically meant I was feeling very stressed out - for a variety of […]

By Alicia Sparks, Mental Health Notes -- 2 comments

November 12th, 2008

Get In On The Discussion: Veterans And PTSD

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And speaking of veterans…
Michele Rosenthal of Parasites of the Mind is going to be on The Veteran’s Forum (a PIVTR radio show hosted by E. Everett McFall) today talking about posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Specifically:

Educating sufferers, caregivers and careproviders about PTSD
Building a PTSD resource community
Necessity of sufferers participating in the healing […]

By Alicia Sparks, Mental Health Notes -- 2 comments

November 12th, 2008

New Schizophrenia Research Saddens Me

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I’m really getting disgusted with scientific research. I mean, I enjoy hearing about mind-blowing and even sometimes unnecessary and almost always dangerous developments as much as the next person (wow, has anyone else been keeping up with that new FOX show, Fringe? Walter is my hero), but usually only for entertainment […]

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November 11th, 2008

Help Veterans Obtain Mental Health Resources

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Several years ago, a soldier I once knew told me about the time he had to dig graves for children who’d starved to death in a country most of us have never been to. It wasn’t a war zone; these children simply didn’t have enough food to stay alive. He and […]

By Alicia Sparks, Mental Health Notes -- 5 comments

November 10th, 2008

Free (Or Nearly Free) Ways To Boost Brain Power

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Last week I posted my review of Lumosity (you know, the set of games that are supposed to train your brain), and not long after that I bumped into 12 Simple Ways to Supercharge Your Brain.
One of the suggestions is - you guessed it - mind exercises. However, rather than listing […]

By Alicia Sparks, Mental Health Notes -- 2 comments