Mental Health Notes

May 10th, 2008

Saturday Sanity: Ain’t The A Kick In The Brain?

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

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 9th, 2008

Postpartum Depression Legislation: Beneficial Or Conspiratorial?

Back in January, I notified you all of an advocacy alert regarding the Melanie Blocker-Stokes Postpartum Depression Research and Care Act (S.1375) from the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA).
Yesterday I received another advocacy alert from the DBSA. This one was also related to postpartum depression and S.1375 (and the House’s version, H.R. 20), only […]

By Alicia Sparks, NAMI Affiliation Leader -- 9 comments