Patient Follow Up Reduces Suicide Rates, written 2 days ago, According to a report released by the World Health Organization (WHO) on September 1, following up with patients who try to commit suicide is an effective way to save...

Daily Schizophrenia-related news, commentary and links to additional information.

Join the neighborhood looney on her wild ride as her mind spews anything and everything from manic depression, borderline personality disorder, life, and zombies. Definitely zombies.

Six-step formula to reduce conflicts and build healthy relationships, written 1 week ago, Wonder how some simple changes in the way we dress, talk and move can keep regular conflicts at bay. Well, these easy changes can indeed help you nurture long-lasting relationships and ensure friction-less inte...

Open Letter to the Men and Women returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, written 5 days ago,

Holidays are Hard for Some People w/BP, written 2 days ago, Hey, y'all --I hope you had a good Labor Day. Unfortunately, I know that for some of you it was a difficult day.For people with bipolar disorder, holidays and family gatherings can even be triggers to bipolar episodes. These types of things...

Moving in the Right Direction, I Guess?, written 2 days ago, I started working out - Day 2. We'll see how long this lasts. : ) Maybe just by saying "we'll see how long this lasts" is a bad sign? I hope not. It actually gets me out of the house and my body moving. It also makes me doubly co...

Stigmatization of mental illness - The Dark Knight, written 1 day ago, addLoadEvent(meyshan_search_king_autocomplete_activate); Here's a line from The Dark Knight script written by Christopher Nolan and David Goyer. To set the scene, good guy Harvey Dent has one of the Joker's henchmen and is roughi...

This blog explores the concept of mind body medicine. It discusses the relationship between the body, the mind and health. The Blog will show how spirituality, meditation, mindfulness, exercises, proper nutrition and self care, can help us keep our body

The Hole?!!!!, written 1 month ago, My dear fascist advocate friends, those ungrateful psychiatric patients are at it again! I have intercepted a communication amongst them in which they seem to be attempting to overthrow the government and the psychiatric establishment in order to release one of th...

Free, written 3 weeks ago, I have a very long post I wrote, and have saved, of what happened between me and my friend. I hesitate to post it, as I know its my side of the story, and even in my anger I'm not sure about villianizing someone. Its there if I need to post it at some point, or if you're a...

Back, written 4 days ago, I'm back from my trip finally. I've been following politics so closely recently that I haven't kept up on mental health news. That and I chose to disconnect myself from the Internet during vacation. So I'm incredibly behind on emails, and to make matters worse, I've downloa...

My lil baby boy, written 2 days ago, This is how he slept this morning =) Melts my heart. He is just the best dog in the world. I love him.Happy TuesdayLove,Di

3rd MRI Today, written 6 days ago, I'm getting tired of these damn things. Every time I have to go in for one, I have to remove all seven of my piercings. And a few of those aren't so easily removed. Hopefully this is the last one for a while. Then off to the sleep science doctor to get results of t...

Repeat of Thursday, written 2 days ago, Oh no, is this déjà vu? It seems the mishaps of Thursday are being repeated today at CIWP.We started with La Netta and Rosa picking up Mike Williams, Ken, Jolene and me. Then they had to take La Netta and Jolene to the office to stay ther...

WHAT'S THE SCAM?????????????, written 3 days ago, You must concede I live an interesting life. Not a glamorous life, not an enviable life, but an interesting one. The way I keep my life interesting is by being open. I am a cynic, and a skeptic, but I still believe that *maybe* this person in front o...

Soap Box, Ballot Box, Cartridge Box, written 2 weeks ago, Watch and heed. He speaks the truth, and all should give full attention to every word. In my job as advocate, I always say the job of a Citizen is to keep his mouth open. That means communicating with your Congrisscritters. This is what you g...

Words of wisdom on creating and maintaining a semblance of sanity.

Vasopressin receptor genes of philandering men, written 1 day ago, Wow, this little item went from online publications by Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. yesterday straight to the NBC evening news I watched last night. We were bound eventually to find out that what's true for randy male prairie voles is also ...

Brain fitness for life.