Practicing Mental Illness
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People in mental health expected the worst from the pandemic. Jobs have been lost, people have isolated without significant human contact for over a ye…
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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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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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