Category: Mental Health
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Intent to Write
I intend to write, to complete a draft of memoir.
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Sarah Fader: Parenting a Special Needs Child
Sarah Fader on parenting a special needs child with mental health challenges.
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Liver Panel Lab Results
So, back in November both my internist and my psychiatrist wrote out lab requests for me to fill. Put it off until January because I was nervous as to what the results might be. Metabolic panel showed high triglycerides. I fasted, but forgot not to take my fish oil that morning. I currently take atorvastatin (LIPITOR®) for…
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Health Care System Fails Serious Mental Illness (SMI) and Severe Emotional Disturbance (SED)
The Way Forward: Federal Action for a System That Works for All People Living With SMI and SED and Their Families and Caregivers The Interdepartmental Serious Mental Illness Coordinating Committee (ISMICC) has released a report detailing a plan for helping adults with serious mental illness (SMI) and children and youth with serious emotional disturbances (SED).…
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New Year's Resolutions
Love more Worry less Exercise more Eat better Laugh more Stay stable Finish my memoir
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Happy Holidays!
I have not been up to writing recently. Just been binge watching TV and doing jigsaw puzzles on my iPad. This season is emotionally fraught for me, starting with my mother’s birthday in October, Thanksgiving, my father’s birthday in December, then my husband’s birthday, then Christmas, finally New Year’s (which we sleep through). Never much…
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Thank you, David Susman PhD
Thank you, clinical psychologist and mental health advocate David Susman PhD, for steadfastly supporting fellow mental health advocates and sharing science-based information and resources at DavidSusman.com. Congratulations on three years as a mental health blogger. Dr. Susman recently shared how I found purpose living with bipolar disorder, Your Life Has Purpose, in his Stories of Hope,…