May 16th, 2008
Here at b5media’s Health & Wellness Channel, we’re always doing something.
This week, we’re rounding up our “Top 5″ posts.
Some bloggers are focusing on their top five most popular posts, their favorite posts, and even posts that aren’t very well known to their readers.
Because Mental Health Notes is still celebrating its one-year anniversary, I thought I’d […]
By Alicia Sparks, NAMI Affiliation Leader -- 4 comments
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
Doing anything in my sleep freaks me out - talking, walking, being around total strangers - anything. (This is undoubtedly why I was never one to fall asleep in class.) I’m one of those people who likes to sleep curled up on my belly and completely covered from head to toe with nothing sticking out […]
By Alicia Sparks, NAMI Affiliation Leader -- 1 comment
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
Today marks the end of Children’s Mental Health Week, and it seems like I just keep running into sad and…odd mental health news related to children.
Case in point:
Tammy Lewis, mother to a 15-year-old daughter and a 12-year-old son, and self-described bishop Alan Bushey are in custody on “felony counts of being a party to causing […]
By Alicia Sparks, NAMI Affiliation Leader -- 1 comment
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 8th, 2008
Last Thursday, Chato B. Stewart rocked our funny bones with his mental health humor. This Thursday, Ken Jensen puts us through psychiatric boot camp with his system for surviving bipolar disorder.
As if my nauseatingly incessant play on words didn’t give it away, 39-year-old Ken Jensen is a former soldier – not just any soldier, but […]
By Alicia Sparks, NAMI Affiliation Leader -- 10 comments
May 7th, 2008
I love free stuff, and I love passing along information about free stuff. So, you can imagine how much I loved finding this free emergency medical ID wallet card from MedIDs.com.
Sure, you could probably find various kinds of free emergency medical ID wallet cards in a thousand other places, but I like this one because […]
By Alicia Sparks, NAMI Affiliation Leader -- 0 comments
May 7th, 2008
I have some mental health news for you ladies and…well, just ladies, as this doesn’t really pertain to the gents; unless, of course, you’re looking to find mental health information for that special lady in your life!
Revolution Health, that lovely Web site that hosted the Revolution Health Online Health Fair last year, is at it […]
By Alicia Sparks, NAMI Affiliation Leader -- 1 comment
May 6th, 2008
Depending on how well you keep up with sports news, you may or may not have heard about former England football legend Paul Gascoigne checking himself into a Roehampton rehabilitation clinic after a series of suicide threats and attempts. According to the UK’s Telegraph, Gascoigne “has struggled for years with alcoholism and depression and was […]
By Alicia Sparks, NAMI Affiliation Leader -- 2 comments
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