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Monday Mental Health Blogging

August 24, 2009 in Links, Mental Illness | No comments

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.”

Michele Bachmann & Ron Paul Crazy Train Stopping in MN

August 23, 2009 in Links, Politics | No comments

Breaking news from Dusty Trice! Michele Bachmann will be holding a town hall during September, featuring special guest star Ron Paul… Even for Minnesota, this kind of crazy doesn’t intersect often:

“[...] I’ll be doing another town hall up in the Saint Cloud area in September, and we’ll do that on monetary policy. Uh, Ron Paul is gonna come in, and we’re gonna hold something on monetary policy because I especially want to speak to the 19 and 20 year-olds.”

Quick note: Michele Bachmann and Ron Paul are both members of the Subcommittee on International Monetary Policy and Trade in the 111th Congress, and the whacked-out young adult demographic was a large chunk of Paul’s creepy fringe support during his run for President.

Monday Mental Health Blogging

August 17, 2009 in Links, Mental Illness, Photos | 2 comments

A vintage electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) unit at the HCMC History Museum in Minneapolis, MN.

An excerpt from a book I’ve been reading lately, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression:

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It’s just like regular Torah. But ghetto.

August 15, 2009 in Judaism, Links | No comments

Urban Parsha Re’eh [Deut 11:26-16:17]:

and so G said: “imma tell y’all straight up right now: y’all can do the damn thing and we be cool or y’all can drop ship and we got beef. when y’all get up in the club, it’s on with them next g haters. let em know we up in this ish. smoke them fools and they fake a$$ g’s. i run israel…don’t be tryna switch up my flow, ya heard me? my verses be tight already, i don’t need yall messing with my bars. now if some next cat comes along tryna kick knowledge that i aint never co-signed on, then that cat is tryna clown y’all cuz he don’t run with me. don’t let him gas you up with some walking across water ish…when you up in my crib, break me off with some of that paper, cuz y’all need a reminder that I run this ish. i get money. now y’all better come through and holler at me at me in club. you know how we get crunk on the trifecta.”

“hey, when something is really, truly, internally yours? you can have a lot of fun with it.”

Monday Mental Health Blogging

August 10, 2009 in Links, Mental Illness | No comments

"U155 at Tower Bridge, London," 1919

“About two-thirds of the nation’s juvenile inmates have at least one mental illness, according to surveys of youth prisons, and are more in need of therapy than punishment.”
“It’s shocking to me that we’re still afraid to say ‘bipolar’ out loud, so I do often, clearly and without shame.”
Some people are calling it preschool depression–the symptoms of depression present in children as young as 3 years old. As a former depressed child, let’s just straight-up call it “depression” because that’s what it is.
“Why is it that I am seeing double for the first time? Is my failed vision an indication of my psychosis? Or is it simply difficult to shoot a gun while wearing glasses, as several soldiers tell me?”
“The American Psychological Association declared Wednesday that mental health professionals should not tell gay clients they can become straight through therapy or other treatments.”
“The It’s On My Mind campaign is raising awareness of the warning signs of mental health problems and suicide so more people can help themselves or a friend.”