Resources for Youth and Young Adults
Strength of Us Reach Out Here OK2TALK Half of Us Teens Health Each Mind Matters Teen Line Online Suicide Prevention Lifeline
Bad Mom – Spoken Word for Tha.Speakeasy
Prompted by an invite to Tha.Speakeasy Facebook event on April 17th & 18th, I read my poem, Bad Mom, which I'm posting here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSPxegcCxEM Bad Mom Bad mom Selfish mom Ineffective mom Permissive [...]
Unlocking the Mind #Writing101
How to get at the good stuff? Cannot even think of a better word for stuff! Yes, I can look for a word using a thesaurus, which I probably will end up doing. [...]
Postpartum Bipolar Disorder Research Study
Walker Karraa, PhD My friend & colleague, Dr. Walker Karraa, is studying the stigma surrounding postpartum bipolar disorder. If you fit her research criteria and are interested in participating, please do so. Her [...]
New Mental Health Information Page
Just added a new page to my site, entitled Mental Health Information, which lists links to NAMI & NIMH pages concerning major mental health conditions. So, now you can easily find information on [...]
Passed My SSDI Review (Whew!)
Beautiful Tree Manipulated to Look Agitated and Hypomanic Spring triggers hypomania and agitation in me. As many of my readers already know, one spring over twenty years ago, tricyclic antidepressant misuse, [...]
GET.gg Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Self-Help Resources
Awesome CBT Self-Help Resources from GET.gg! Self Help & Therapist Resources Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) has been proven to help mental health problems. This website offers CBT self-help information, resources and including therapy worksheets [...]
Medications: To have or not, that is the question! | International Bipolar Foundation
My friend Dyane Harwood of Birth of a New Brain responded to a recent IBPF blog article by Susan Zarit entitled Medications: To Have Or Not, That Is The Question! Susan Zarit of Bravely Bipolar has struggled [...]
The Bipolar Parent – Q&A with Kitt O’Malley
La Sabrosona of my spanglish familia interviewed me about parenting while living with bipolar disorder. Here is the interview:
Online Support Resources
Recently, I have come across people who live in rural areas without adequate mental health resources or live outside the US and do not have the access to mental health resources that the [...]