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Rob Tannenbaum wrote June 12 in the  New York Times : In songs like “Surfin’ U.S.A.,” “California Girls” and “Good Vibrations,” Wilson did...

Fun fact for Arbor Day:  There are now 99 elms encircling the CSU Oval and lining its walkways. So reports an April 2022 story on Colorado S...

Just added to my reading list: "Blue Dreams: The science and the story of the drugs that changed our minds" by Lauren Slater. I wi...

What happens when you go to an art opening and you run into an old family friend who has descended so far into mental illness that she is ho...

The mental health of veterans is tied to the mental health of civilians. I am not a veteran.  I am a civilian with mental health issues. D...

Chris and I are attending a wellness class at the YMCA. The class uses a text entitled "Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions...

The Electric Lit site carries some cool articles about the writing life. A recent one was about writers and mental health . I've often ...

I've written about my own depression on these pages. I've written about my daughter's struggle with depression and borderline pe...

"Skibbereen 1847" by Cork artist James Mahony (1810–1879), commissioned by The Illustrated London News, 1847 I have never bee...

This neat graphic comes from Robot Hugs via Science Dump .

I could not let Mental Health Awareness Week go by without commenting. The week, promoted by the National Alliance on Mental Illnes...

From the Daily Mail in the U.K.: Toby Allen, a Cornish artist, has imagined what eight common mental illnesses would look like if th...

I don't personally know the two presenters at the May 16 library workshop entitled "Letting the Sunshine in." But it's one...

I posted on Monday about my cardiac rehab buddy S. She was hauled away by EMTs after complaining of chest pain and registering a very high ...

The darker the state, the higher the suicide rate The Billings Gazette began a series on Sunday exploring Montana's "suicide e...

Marjorie Morrison is the author of the recently published "The Inside Battle: Our Military Mental Health Crisis" (Military Psych...

This is one of the posters designed by Laramie's Felicia Follum to mark World Suicide Prevention Day (today) and Suicide Awareness We...

Meredith Melnick writes in Time Magazine Online today about World Suicide Prevention Day, which will take place on Monday, Sept. 10 (t...

The film that accompanies Nicholas D. Kristof's New York Times story makes me incredibly sad -- and pisses me off. Why isn't more...

I can’t help noticing that Frank S. and I are the only members of the male gender posting on the easy to love but hard to raise blog. That’...