In 1992, the World Federation for Mental Health established October 10 as World mental Health Day. The theme of this year's WMHD (October 10) is "Making Mental Health a Global Priority - Scaling Up Services through Citizen Advocacy and Action", and uses information from a Lancet Series to encourage renewed efforts for well-informed mental-health... Read more
Blogs, blogs, blogs. Everywhere you look, you find more blogs -- on every topic imaginable, including mental health and depression. Some of them are spectacular. Some are less spectacular. Some make me sad and angry because they perpetuate the stigma that all of us living with a mental health issue continue to fight.
I came acrosss one of... Read more
The Paul Wellstone-Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act 2008 has passed both the House and Senate and was signed into law by President Bush just minutes ago.
Earlier this week, the Senate attached it to the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act (HR 1424). If you would like to read the section of HR... Read more
The Presidential election of 2008 is stacking up to be one of the most important in American history. Certainly, I think it's the most importan one thus far in my life. There are many issues facing us -- the economy, education, terrorism, the war in Iraq. BUT, let's not forget HEALTHCARE!
I don't think anyone can dispute that our... Read more
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