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Mental Health Notes - News, Education and Advocacy

May 16th, 2008

Top 5 Posts I Had The Most Fun Writing For Mental Health Notes

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, Mental Health Notes -- 4 comments

March 25th, 2008

Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum Upsets Mental Health Advocates

According to The Charleston Gazette article Groups protest ‘lunatic asylum’ name, a pre-Civil War mental hospital in Weston, West Virginia has - after undergoing several name changes spanning the 19th and 20th centuries including “West Virginia Hospital for the Insane,” “Weston State Hospital,” and then simply “Weston Hospital” - gone back to using its maiden […]

By Alicia Sparks, Mental Health Notes -- 16 comments

September 19th, 2007

Long Abandoned Suitcases From A State Mental Institution

“To take away the stigma is to take away the fear.” - Nancy Devine.
Have any of you heard of the old Willard Psychiatric Center in New York? Until it closed in 1995, it went through several names, ultimately sticking with the Willard Psychiatric Center.
Anyway, once Willard was closed in 1995, hundreds of “abandoned” suitcases were […]

By Alicia Sparks, Mental Health Notes -- 6 comments