While I applaud the intent of the National Alliance on Mental Illness’s effort to “grade” the 50 states in the U.S. on their mental health care, the problem with such reports is that they are out-of-date and virtually useless from the moment they are published. The problem with the...

I’ve worked with a mentee of mine for about a year who, while immensely bright, struggles with some sexual compulsivity issues. (Yes, this mentee is also in therapy; I’m not overstepping my role.) “Kelly” read this old post of mine about flirtation, and brought the subject up...

As reported by The New York Times, people with bipolar disorder have a higher risk of suffering from fatal illness according to a study (that reviewed 17 other studies involving more than 331,000 people) reported in the February issue of......

Yesterday’s post about emotional affairs and betrayal elicited this comment from jennyfields: I am relating to today’s post on many complicated and vague levels. I wonder how this applies to “entertainingâ€� fantasies that would be an emotion betrayal of yourself instead of a partner. Is i...

coping digitally, a session at the 2009 northern voice blogging conference that talked about the intersection of blogging and mental health and how social media can help derease the stigma of mental health was a real success.  raul did a live blog of the session. thanks, raul! the overwhelming feed...

It’s currently 2:18am and I have Gogol Bordello playing pretty loudly and I seem to be in a much better mood that I was yesterday. This is in part to getting a crapload of sleep today, talking to Blake until 5am yesterday morning, internet friends coming through with birthday presents so I don...

this is a summary of the discussion we had on monday about mental health and blogging. thanks for all the great comments! i will use this as my guideline (guidepost?) for my participation at coping digitally, a panel discussion about mental illness and social media that i’ll be part of at the nort...

I’m going to be 30 in 9 days and due to that and the fact that I can’t seem to make art right now because of winter depression that apparently no amount of drugs can help, I need STUFF to retain my sanity and feel loved. There. I said it. Truly, I’m going out of my fucking mind thi...

I need a break so bad. I don’t want to turn 30 in 10 days. I’m afraid I’m unloved. I wonder how many calories are in pills, since I pretty much live on them. I’m scared to have surgery. I’m terrified of getting better. But I’m tired of being broken. My brain is fu...

I’m working through things here, as always. The best part of writing for me has always been the revision, the changing of sentences, the putting of words into new spots and choosing what really said that I wanted to say. In mania, I could do this quickly and the task could draw me out of a dep...