Practicing Mental Illness
People in mental health expected the worst from the pandemic. Jobs have been lost, people have isolated without significant human contact for over a year, clinics and hospitals were either closed or online, and doctor and therapist visits on Zoom were challenging at best.
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For better or worse, I write most of my posts from the point of view of my own experience. While I carefully cite peer reviewed research to make my poi…
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Two reports from the UK are painting very different pictures of the mental health impact of Covid-19 and unemployment. One, as reported in The Atlantic…
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When the shutdown first began and everyone was forced online we had Zoom happy hours and Zoom reunions and Zoom drop-ins with people we hadn’t seen in …
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I’ve become increasingly troubled by proponents of mindfulness. From companies touting meditation as a means to help workers deal with unpleasant work …
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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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