Monday Mental Health Blogging

A video from The Onion: White House Reveals Obama Is Bipolar, Has Entered Depressive Phase.
“Drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline used a sophisticated ghostwriting program to promote its antidepressant Paxil, allowing doctors to take credit for medical journal articles mainly written by company consultants.“
An L.A. County program helps female inmates handle their mental illness and regain custody of their children.
The Virginia Tech shooter’s medical records were released on Wednesday.
“A study published last year suggested that bipolar disorder may be over diagnosed in people seeking mental health care. Now new findings shed light on which disorders many of these patients actually have.”
Woman who claimed to be expecting 12 babies at once (“next to impossible,” said health experts) turns out to just have a freaky phantom pregnancy. It happens when you spend too much time in opera houses.
“Faded numbers stamped into small cement blocks marked the graves of more than 3,200 mentally ill patients buried here at Western State Hospital between the 1870s and 1953.”

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