Category: Mental Health
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Ten Year Anniversary of Hospitalization
Ten years ago, two weeks preceding and including Valentine’s Day, I was hospitalized. Twenty years ago, I experienced a psychotic break during the same season: this season – the season of Lent. Though I do not attend church, this season moves me deeply. I could write more about seasonal affective disorder and how those of…
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DBSA Educational Webinars
Thank you DBSAlliance.org for naming me their Life Unlimited Story for January 2015. This post’s content is copied directly from DBSA Educational Webinars. DBSA webinars are online educational sessions featuring mental health experts that cover a wide range of topics from treatment options, to personal wellness strategies, to relationships. Join us for upcoming webinars or watch achieved…
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So Easily Broken
Yesterday this “story” of mine was published on Stigmama.com at FICTION SERIES: So Easily Broken, Kitt O’Malley | Stigmama. Clearly, it is fictionalized autobiography. I simply wrote what surrounded me in third person. FICTION SERIES: So Easily Broken, Kitt O’Malley | Stigmama All around her books, binders, and training manuals piled. She had an article to…
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the black dog of fill in the blank
Blahpolar parses the Black Dog of depression in one of her posts yesterday. That Black Dog can be quite nasty.
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Writer’s Quote Wednesday – Allie Burke
Allie Burke is the author of Paper Souls, The Enchanters Series, and her autobiography The Sandman, Vice President of Stigma Fighters, and survivor of paranoid schizophrenia. I consider her a good friend and fellow mental health advocate and Stigma Fighter. Thank you Colleen Chesebro at SilverThreading.com for organizing Writer’s Quote Wednesday 2015. Today she quotes an ee cummings‘ love poem in honor of…
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GAO Report on Mental Health
Today I received the following email from NAMI on the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) Report on Mental Health. I feel somewhat guilty for simply copying and pasting emails I receive, but my purpose is to educate and advocate more than to write original material. New GAO Report on Mental Health Calls for Better Federal Coordination…
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The Benefits of Laughter
Thank you, Melissa Garzon, MD (medical school in Columbia – yes, she, like Sofía Vergara is a sexy, educated, and intelligent Columbian – how cool is that!), MPH (Master of Public Health from UC Berkeley – where I got my BA), for creating this great infographic. I just LOVE Melissa. She laughs at my jokes. Not…
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NAMI Provider Education – Week Two
Yesterday I attended the second class of NAMI’s Provider Education. Here I summarize, paraphrase, and quote the handouts from the NAMI Provider Education Course Participant Manual 2013: THEORETICAL BASIS: Basic principles of secondary prevention/intervention in mental health care in community psychiatry as devised by Gerald Caplan, MD (1974) and Erich Lindemann, MD (1944). Community theory proposed protective interventions…
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#NOMORE Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault
Today I received the following email from the NOMORE Project. When I was in my mid-twenties I worked as an administrator for a battered woman’s shelter after volunteering on their crisis line. My exposure to domestic violence left me with a passion to end it. I haven’t worked in the social services field for over…