May 13th, 2008
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 -- 8 comments
May 12th, 2008
LiveJournal, dear LiveJournal.
Many moons ago, when I was a young college student dealing with life and all the bizarre things that come along for the ride, you gave me a home. You gave me an outlet to vent my frustrations, a portal to make friends, a place to share my secrets as well as my […]
By Alicia Sparks, NAMI Affiliation Leader -- 0 comments
May 10th, 2008
How much sanity can you handle on this glorious Saturday? Let’s find out…
This week, which was also Children’s Mental Health Week, was fairly busy at Mental Health Notes. I talked about mental health situations in the news (some…bizarre, and some not so uncommon) as well as well as a few mental health studies such as […]
By Alicia Sparks, NAMI Affiliation Leader -- 3 comments
May 6th, 2008
As I mentioned yesterday, my NAMI affiliation had a cookout at one of our local city parks in honor of Mental Health Month.
Well, it turned out to be a lovely event! The weather was gorgeous, the food was delicious, and aside from a crowd of skateboarding teenagers (who eventually moved on to skate somewhere else […]
By Alicia Sparks, NAMI Affiliation Leader -- 0 comments
May 5th, 2008
This week is going to be an extremely busy week for me.
Today I have two appointments and a last minute shopping trip to deal with before I head to my NAMI affiliation’s cookout in honor of Mental Health Month.
Tuesday and Wednesday I have to finish getting four days worth of work completed (for Tuesday, Wednesday, […]
By Alicia Sparks, NAMI Affiliation Leader -- 1 comment
April 19th, 2008
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 10th, 2008
As you may or may not should know, May is Mental Health Month. Last year, May was the first month Mental Health Notes was live (how appropriate, huh?), and in honor of Mental Health Month I posted information about mental health-related tips and resources on each of the 31 days.
This year, I’m still focusing on […]
By Alicia Sparks, NAMI Affiliation Leader -- 26 comments
May 24th, 2007
Let’s see how much you know about mental health and factors that can actually predict the status of a person’s mental health.
Choose which of the following factors you think is the most effective in predicting a person’s mental health status:
Race/ethnicity
Age
Education
Income
Literacy skills
Employment
If you chose literacy skills, you’re absolutely correct. And it’s deeper than just being able […]
By Alicia Sparks, NAMI Affiliation Leader -- 2 comments
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