This week is Mental Illness Awareness Week. Okay, let’s get aware. Following is a random traverse through history:
790,000 BC, give or take a few years - Discovery of fire. Anyone crazy enough to take a burning tree into their cave and find a practical application had to have been dealing with bipolar. So, you nonbipolars out there, listen up: We give you the gift of civilization, and how do you thank us? That’s right. You marginalize us. (By the way, sorry we couldn’t get fire to you...
Some years ago, I was making videos for an organization with a huge campaign about end-of-life care (palliation, hospice, Living Wills,... Read more »
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I have always had mixed feelings about taking medications. Growing up I watched my mother take daily multiple medications to treat her... Read more »
The 2007 celebration gala for NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) was held last night in Washington, DC. "Unmasking Mental Illness"... Read more »
Next week, October 4 - 10, is Mental Illness Awareness Week. In 1990, the United States Congress established the first week of October as... Read more »
New research published in the journal Anesthesiology suggests that illness and surgery don't contribute to long-term cognitive decline in seniors,... Read more »
Caring for a child with a chronic illness can be a challenge of the tallest order. It requires us to stretch ourselves physically, financially,... Read more »
Caring for a child with a chronic illness can be a challenge of the tallest order. It requires us to stretch ourselves physically, financially,... Read more »
A sociology professor at University of Pennsylvania has found that while many Americans believe mental illness has genetic causes, they are no more... Read more »
Psychiatrists with the American Psychiatric Association have unveiled their changes for the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of... Read more »
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