Practicing Mental Illness
I’ve become increasingly troubled by proponents of mindfulness. From companies touting meditation as a means to help workers deal with unpleasant work situations instead of addressing the root causes of the workers’ dissatisfaction, to therapists who position meditation as a mea…
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In measuring whether or not the occurrence of bipolar episodes increases with age, the age the disorder first appears is more important than the effect…
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It all starts with Santa Claus. Like most kids, I declared a belief in him longer than I actually did believe in him for fear of not getting as many, o…
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I used to write a blog for Psych Central. Often I wrote about living well with mental illness and detailed how one can use meditation, movement and mea…
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The lasting legacy of 2020 and 2021 may be the loss of confidence in individual human potential. As many take sides in countless debates, finding refug…
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Many of us are vaccinated but still unsure of what constitutes safe or risky behavior. Others worry about effects of the vaccine and doubt they’ll even…
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Now that many of us have been exposed to seeing doctors and therapists on Zoom, we have to decide if this technology driven delivery of mental healthca…
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45% of all older people who commit suicide visit their primary care physician within one month of their death. While the suicide rate increases with ag…
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