all the posts from ‘a little spark’ are here!
- getting involved in the community
- weight and see
- new Seroquel XR commercial
- Does too much sleep lead to depression?
- if not a magic bullet, then what is it?
- it’s a date!….at my therapist’s office
- What are some barriers to mental health treatment? Help find out.
- antidepressants lead to more depression?
- a misspent livelihood
- #petlove
- ‘Men’s Health’ guide to less stress
- Free bipolar disorder report
- v58.69
- ECT Lessons-I’ve-Learned #11: post-ECT aches
- day after the shock
- the proverbial tea leaves
- ECT #39 (24th maintenance treatment)
- track your mood online!
- American Love
- the down side of things
- weighty matter
- sticking to save mental health
- surf’s up—-and down and up and down
- st-abilify-ing with Abilify: is it really safe?
- Mental Health News Update: 6/24
- Study: City living isn’t easy. And sociologists are hypocrites
- someone to watch over me
- June is Men’s Health Month
- fighting the current
- sleep tips from the NYTimes
- what’s in a name?
- normalcy. well, not so fast
- getting back to a routine
- a hard day’s night
- getting caught
- Ri-DIRK-ulous
- Why are we happy?
- birth defects and antidepressants
- Rewriting the future
- Still in the Shadows: Men and Depression
- a little high-5 to me :)
- Let’s Tweet for Mental Health!
- Celebrating Mental Health Month
- Turn of events
- Here comes Rhymin’ Simon
- Strangest moment….
- ECT #38 (my 23rd maintenance treatment)
- what Jack Daniel’s has taught me
- How to tie a strong knot
- it’s too revealing
- Masters-ful plan
- fade to…
- FDA’s ECT panel meeting remarks online
- enjoy the preview
- bleaker street
- mental disorder + graphic design
- march-ing on (just barely)
- the suicide gene
- Everything has a story
- Can books make you more mentally ill?
- digging ditches
- I get it. I’m fat.
- Using texting 2 care 4 ur depression
- a good time to stop?
- ECT #37 (my 22nd maintenance treatment)
- the resolve of the Japanese people
- The Psycho-meter: is it offensive?
- poetry in motion
- taking care of self, starting with the lashes
- bursting the bubble
- Are psychiatrists becoming like ‘candy’ dispensers?
- after a suicide
- ‘Unhappy Hipsters’ that make me happy
- new Abilify commercial is here!
- eighth anniversary of my first suicide attempt
- if you’re happy but you don’t know it
- Mocking others’ mental stability
- measure of wellness
- Needs Effort
- OpEd: Why banning ECT would be a big mistake
- freebird
- still not guilt-free
- anatomy of a remodel, part 2
- The Finish Line
- When does comedy go too far?
- a valentine thank-you
- When watching ‘the virgin suicides’ ≠ suicidal thoughts
- Carry Your Pills in Style!
- news: do the “crazy” dance
- piled on
- A Love Letter to my sleeping pill
- Let the remodel commence!
- fumble
- David Letterman talks about ‘the black hole’
- good morning
- You’re only a day away….
- Resource on Deep Brain Stimulation
- a therapeutic alliance
- FDA Panel: More testing needed for ECT Machines
- I can’t quit you
- after-shock
- Measuring the risk of ECT machines
- ECT Lessons-I’ve-Learned #10: When in doubt, talk.
- ECT #36: (my 21th maintenance treatment)
- judging a book by its cover
- like father, like daughter
- a rather obvious connection between optimism and depression….or something else?
- back to the Music City…
- The sound of silence
- scenes from the homeland
- Happy 2nd birthday, `little spark`!
- Your pet is not an antidepressant
- 2010 in review, according to WordPress
- cityscape
- 2011
- Thanks-giving
- putting one foot in front of the other
- mommy and me
- patterns of Japan
- recovering from a nervous breakdown
- mirage
- scene change
- personal blog topics
- constructing a fresh start
- fear of losing
- deciding to misuse stimulants
- Learning how to “sur-thrive”
- Washington Univ. in St. Louis opens clinic for treatment-resistant depression
- gaining weight on meds
- borrowing a cat’s hands
- it’s the end of the month already?
- rooted in sadness?
- adding “Utsu”
- have courage.
- To Twitter, or not to Twitter
- Thankful
- concerns with maintenance ECT
- everyday voice of PTSD
- ECT #35: (my 20th maintenance treatment)
- unnerved
- Nat’l Survivors of Suicide Day is here!
- study: teen depression treatment and relapse
- politics of freebies
- light at night can lead to depression
- in the cards
- Glenn Close fights stigma
- ECT on kids
- must read: a look at mental health treatment in China
- wandering mind is an unhappy one
- ECT=better math skills?
- Mania to diagnose: kids and bipolar
- exercise, shmexercise
- message in the window
- rejection letter
- talking about ECT, sociologically
- Which celebs have dealt with depression?
- Vote today!
- going 11 for 11
- Looking for the right psychiatrist?
- Therapy….or a Kate Spade bag?
- encapsulated
- am I for real?
- Happiness and sisterhood
- Mark Vonnegut chronicles life with bipolar disorder
- sweeping away depression
- scientific explanation to being suicidal
- open wide—for your therapist
- brain function boosters
- hop, skip, and not renewing meds
- homeopathic means to an end of depression?
- Pop music and mental institutions
- speaking of ECT
- ECT #34 (my 19th maintenance treatment)
- Mental health stories on NYTimes
- 10.10.10 is World Mental Health Day
- ‘scoping toward deadlines
- psych hospitals make me laugh…
- Tim Gunn’s story
- boys in pink
- What to do for Mental Illness Awareness Week
- Let’s just give everyone ECT
- Halloween decor find
- parental consent
- a little pat on the back
- reflections
- Big Apple a day…
- Jon Hamm talks about depression
- Swinging in college
- It’s a family affair
- Congratulations, Senator Snowe!
- batting 500 (posts)
- looking for perf-ECT-ion
- football players and suicide
- Japan Mental health resource
- Depression’s cost on Japan’s economy
- Today is World Suicide Prevention Day…does anyone care?
- open the vents
- Update: Drugging children
- suicide, suicide, go away
- Countdown to World Suicide Prevention Day
- national suicide prevention week 2010
- TIME: No sleep=overweight and depressed
- ECT #33 (my 18th maintenance treatment)
- Drugging little kids
- I know I’ve been fakin’ it, not really makin’ it
- ECT at-a-glance
- solving for the dependent variable
- preschoolers and depression
- the sixth anniversary
- Stigma In the Headlines
- study: “magic” drug for depression?
- I want to be sedated
- bipolar conundrum
- Come on now social
- The Onion: FDA approves depressant
- Would you make a good psychotherapist?
- the ugly truth
- ECT Lessons-I’ve-Learned #9: What happens during ECT
- in therapy
- study: shrimp on prozac makes them ‘suicidal’
- Sisterly love as a shield from depression
- dogs can get PTSD
- ECT in the news
- ‘Helen’: depression on film
- Predicting suicide attempts via a computer test
- that’s peanuts
- Study: More social ties = longer life
- ECT #32: (my 17th maintenance treatment)
- will ‘normal’ exist after DSM-V?
- in place of antidepressants
- morning call
- in renovation
- I don’t see your true colors shining through
- a bad cocktail
- Let me count the ways
- let it flow
- speak and be heard!
- “Why Suicide?,” Eric Marcus Asks again
- mad dog –or just a sad dog?
- ‘I Choose to Live’!
- in the crowd
- In-N-Out
- Nothing but Blue skies
- easy, breezy, beautiful….
- scene change
- worth the weight
- art for thought
- strange mental health ad…
- self disclosure
- 10 depression busters
- the masquerade
- Coming soon: NFL Films on Bipolar Disorder
- “I want to be bipolar”?
- I actually got an award! And am on Alltop.
- Bilingualism and Mental Health
- Nat’l Minority Mental Health Awareness Month is here!
- ECT #31 (my 16th maintenance treatment)
- a little unwell
- ‘Best Buy’ antidepressants
- me minus abilify equals…
- suicide on my mind (but I’m fine, really)
- Can an ad ‘BringChange2Mind’?
- Diagnosing Bipolar Disorder with a MRI
- Suicide and its circumstances
- A spoonful of cash helps the medicine go down…
- Research: Belly fat and depression
- Stronger
- Share Your Story, Share Your Strength
- Work it!
- sign of the times
- 7 Depression Busters for Men
- a book against ECT
- Did antidepressants depress Japan?
- the depression epidemic?
- In case you didn’t notice…
- drug negotiations
- common ties
- ECT #30 (my 15th maintenance treatment)
- Survey: Happiness come with age
- Losing it
- the end of Mental Health Month
- at a loss
- “They let the crazies out”
- Weekend wrap up
- State of our union
- candy dish
- Dr. F: the nicest psychiatrist
- It’s also Asian Pacific American Heritage Month!
- A mental illness epidemic?
- Mental Health Month: Facts of the Day
- ECT #29 (my 14th maintenance treatment)
- Mental Health Month: Facts of the Day
- Mental Health Month: Facts of the Day
- Mental Health Month: Facts of the Day
- beauty is truth, truth beauty
- Mental Health Month: Facts of the Day
- Mental Health Month: Facts of the Day
- Mental Health Month is here!
- End is near for National Poetry Month
- Is your drug in the top 25?
- more chocolate=more depression?
- A therapeutic dose
- HuffPo: Why Antidepressants don’t work
- The Cure
- you’re a pansy
- excuses, excuses
- Dr. Hyman’s Stress Tips
- “Frankenstein Op”??
- thirty
- autoethnographically speaking
- News: Popular anticonvulsant drugs raise suicide risks
- What’s working?
- Detecting suicidal thoughts in antidepressant-takers
- ECT #28 (my 13th maintenance treatment)
- ECT on ‘Law & Order’
- Is the Burger King ad offensive?
- my body. my choice.
- a looking-glass self
- back in the saddle again
- one week later: off meds
- don’t quit your meds
- Wrestling with the wrong decision
- zoloft ball en masse
- seroquel XR financial help
- Get your free Cymbalta sample!
- March Madness
- Screen Yourself Online for a Mental Disorder
- Suicide Stats & Risk Factors
- ECT #27 (my 12th maintenance treatment)
- recharging my batteries
- ECT Illustrated
- Video about ECT
- clamshell
- Self-diagnosis of bipolar disorder rises
- Depression During Pregnancy? Try acupuncture
- March-ing on
- give it a few days…for antidepressants to work?
- hello, goodbye
- Depression’s Upside – NYTimes.com
- sweet treats
- Column: Why Psychiatry Needs Therapy
- love thyself
- Crossing the Line
- article-No longer shocking: ECT is a lifesaver
- call me ‘crazy’
- NIMH: Same Genes Suspected in Both Depression and Bipolar
- Pop the top open
- Study: Drinking and bipolar symptoms could mix
- Study: Happiness Good for the Heart (oh, really?)
- rem”EMDR”ing the past
- Seven years and counting
- The Truth About Antidepressants And Psychiatric Treatment Of Depression
- chicken and the egg
- An Interview with Carrie Fisher
- ECT #26 (my 11th maintenance treatment)
- Here comes DSM-V!
- What is EMDR?
- study: your bright kid could be bipolar
- There, I said it (part 2)
- Is Depression Manufactured?
- one long month?
- Study: Workers fear stigma of seeking mental health care
- A new step toward mental health parity
- A Doctor’s Case for Antidepressants
- There, I said it
- How do sleeping pills work?
- I’m on my way, I’m taking my time and I don’t know where
- Study: Stressed? Eat chocolate.
- water, water everywhere
- Emotional Training Helps Kids Fight Depression: NPR
- ECT One Year Later
- On Medication
- suicide rate among soldiers rises
- when I grow up, I want to be like Brett Favre
- story time
- mental health news round-up: 1/11-1/15
- Are we both overtreated and undertreated?
- chemical imbalance
- A little mental health break…
- just visiting
- Are the depressed getting enough treatment?
- ECT Lessons-I’ve-Learned #8: What Memory Loss?
- ECT #25 (my 10th maintenance treatment)
- Back in the U.S.A.
- The Americanization of Mental Illness: NYT
- Little Spark`s first birthday
- Must See: The Cost of Health Care
- New Study: popular meds may only help severe depression
- Got spare change? See a doctor in Japan
- kentucky fried chicken: a Japanese tradition
- PBS asks: Can Americans be Happier?
- backpedaling
- The Notebook
- da capo
- I`m turning non-Japanese
- photographic memory
- oh, ochocinco!
- add lithium to your bipolar diet
- Tear Down This Wall.
- Up in Air
- taking flight
- Is there hope for life with depression? – CNN.com
- Thank You
- Treatments for the Winter Blues Does Exist – WSJ.com
- Into the Dark
- military plus meds equal normalcy?
- Bipolar & Unipolar Patients Show Similar Response to ECT: Psychiatric Times
- “Good Luck”
- AP: AstraZeneca buys rights to experimental antidepressant
- Antidepressant Found to Alter Personality: US News and World Report
- ECT #24 (my ninth maintenance treatment)
- what sweeter music
- cats & dogs: the other antidepressant
- Loneliness is like the swine flu
- Suicide rate on the rise
- Why the holiday suicide myth persists
- “how would you kill yourself?”
- Media Should Tread Carefully In Covering Suicide : NPR
- Surgery for Mental Ills offers hope and risk – NYTimes.com
- Addressing Mental Health Crisis In Developing Countries
- a step back
- Another ‘mommy’s little helper’ ad
- NYTimes: Why Exercise Makes You Less Anxious
- Tennessee’s First Proclamation Supporting Mental Health Initiative
- Giving thanks
- Smoking Tied to Suicide Risk in Bipolar Disorder
- How to Find Mental Health Care When Money Is Tight: NYTimes.com
- Sound Waves
- NIMH: Teens and Long-term Depression treatment
- Chronically Depressed? What to Do When Antidepressants Don’t Work – US News and World Report
- ECT #23 (my eighth maintenance treatment)
- Who makes the ECT machines?
- Depression Simmers in Japan’s Culture of Stoicism – The New York Times
- depression: the worst disease you can get
- ECT on TV: Six Feet Under
- What Science is Discovering about exercise and depression: US News
- finding myself
- Mental Health News Roundup
- TMS (transcranial magnetic stimulation), anyone?
- a self portrait
- Voice Analysis Software Could Detect Depression Over the Phone: Popular Science
- ECT Lessons-I’ve-Learned #7: Be Informed.
- Junk food not good for body or the mind
- Depression, illuminated
- permanence
- Senators announce the “ENHANCED Act”! Read all about it!
- How College Can Unleash Mania/Depression: Health.com
- Antipsychotic Drugs Cause Rapid Weight Gain in Children
- Concerning Concerta
- Combating the Stigma of Psychological Injuries – NYTimes.com
- A Push for Colleges to Prioritize Mental Health: NPR
- Colleges See Rise in Mental Health Issues: NPR
- Newsweek on Men and Depression
- spreading BringChange2Mind.org
- Eli Lilly to Pay South Carolina $45 Million Over Zyprexa
- Rapid-Cycling Bipolar Disorder
- ‘is your cat depressed?’
- Study: Light At Night Linked To Symptoms Of Depression In Mice
- In praise of ‘electroshock’ – The Globe and Mail
- back from the vet
- Study: Green Space Helps Reduce Depression and Anxiety
- Behind these doors
- new treatment for depression?
- ECT #22 (my seventh maintenance treatment)
- at the vet
- Iraq and ECT, together in the same post
- DJ Jaffe: Mental Illness Awareness Week Is Nothing to Celebrate — In Fact, It Doesn’t Even Exist
- Lower Depression Risk Linked to Mediterranean Diet – NYTimes.com
- Blues’ Clues
- National Depression Screening Day is October 8
- Happy Bipolar Disorder Awareness Day, I think
- Understanding the Anxious Mind – NYTimes.com
- The Daily Routine
- In the news: Drink up and don’t go to church
- Pre-schoolers get anti-depression skills in Australia
- Mental Illness Awareness Week is here!…so why don’t we know about it?
- On TV this month: Minds on the Edge
- Reducing Suicide Attempts Among Teens: NIMH’s new approach
- Within the Confines
- All in the past
- Kay Redfield Jamison has a new book
- a helping hand
- hatching a master(s) plan
- more ads equal less stigma about mental illness?
- Life is a big Zoloft Ball….
- Closer to Fine
- mental-health news roundup
- ECT Lessons-I’ve-Learned #6: Communication is Key
- Life lines
- Desperate Housewives
- ECT #21 (my sixth maintenance treatment….and the 200th post)
- All the mental-health news fit to this post
- My lunchbox
- need a job? put mental illness on the resume
- Cat that saved my life
- Time for a cocktail…
- National Suicide Prevention Week is Here
- entering a fantasy (football) world
- Childhood Depression and its Burden on the Parents
- Dear Sister
- Brain Imaging Predicts Suicidal Risk | Psych Central News
- Worth the effort? Not if you’re depressed: Vanderbilt University
- Thinking about Depression Globally
- From a Distance
- Don’t drink? You might be depressed.
- no depression with Cymbalta (sales, that is)
- Catch the traveling exhibit about bipolar depression!
- Shock therapy moves past stigma | Argus Leader
- the fifth anniversary of my suicide attempt
- Study: Asian-American women most likely to think about, attempt suicide
- Creativity and madness | PRI.ORG
- ECT #20 (my fifth maintenance treatment)
- Study: online chatting is good for depression
- underinsured and overwhelmed
- Nicotine: the key to a new antidepressant?
- Weights and Measures
- early rise (in caution)
- Depression Treatment Breakthroughs, Beyond ECT- Oprah.com
- FDA OKs New Schizophrenia, Bipolar Drug
- on prozac
- Online Insomnia Programs Promising, Studies Show – NYTimes.com
- Like Your Health Insurance? Maybe You Shouldn’t. – washingtonpost.com
- what’s wrong with me?
- weekend (non)happenings
- Mentally Ill Offenders Strain Juvenile System – NYTimes.com
- Bipolar Diagnosis In Youth Rapidly Climbing/ If Bipolar Is Over-diagnosed, What Are The Actual Diagnoses?
- ECT #19 (my fourth maintenance treatment)
- insurance without assurance (what mental-health parity?)
- Study: Americans get more antidepressants, less therapy
- tremors for your seizures
- six months later
- greeting-card messages for the ECT patient
- a random journal entry
- My health-care bills and the Health Care Bill
- On “Guideline is Function”
- ECT Lessons-I’ve-Learned #5: after ECT, treatment continues
- ECT #18 (maintenance ECT #3)
- Identity Protection, or in defense of ‘secrets’
- The To-Enjoy List
- Breakfast Options
- the center cannot hold (and maybe that’s okay)
- Up in air
- News: Stanford To Offer Bipolar Education Day On July 25
- The Bell Jar: a reason why we love America?
- ECT Lessons-I’ve-Learned #4: Write ‘em down!
- on illness career change
- ECT #17 (my second maintenance treatment)
- Last minute questions
- Research: Inherited Depression Linked To Brain Cortex Thinning
- lonesome night ramblings
- the grass is greener
- New Research: Schizophrenia And Bipolar Disorder Share Genetic Roots
- News Item: Internet-based Therapy Found Effective for Depression
- The Booster Shock (the sixteenth treatment)
- In the Words of Carrie Bradshaw
- Weekend Update
- ABC News: Alcohol Use Associated With Suicide, Especially in Minorities
- News Item: International sessions to focus on latest research on bipolar disorder
- The Assessment (part 2)
- The Assessment (part 1)
- News Item: Bipolar disorder costly to treat
- Why I’m choosing maintenance ECT
- “Scared Shitless”
- New Study: Depression Gene? Maybe Not
- I miss Tim Russert.
- Why study for the GRE? So I can understand Bill Maher (no joke!)
- In need of a little spark
- Forbes: Early Bedtime May Help Stave Off Teen Depression
- A Message on the Car
- CBS News: Psychiatric Drugs For Kids Scrutinized
- In the News: “electric” acupuncture for depression?
- facing political reality
- memory loss (of a whole different kind)
- News Item: Are Antidepressant Warnings Causing Harm?
- reading up on maintenance ECT…
- an incovenient test-time
- a death of someone I knew
- spellbound and tongue-tied
- Thinking about Markers
- Washington Post: Number of US Army suicides continues to climb
- homeward bound
- to dream, perchance to sleep
- The official color of mental health
- a simple question.
- plant life
- Good Grief
- In the News: ECT worse than waterboarding??
- high school bitters
- Helped by the Stimulus package
- The One Hundredth Post
- ECT Lessons-I’ve-Learned #3: Look pretty for the occasion
- Wisdom of “That Lincoln book lady”
- Thursday morning, 8 a.m.
- Abilify financial assistance resource
- BBC News: Fathers’ depression ‘harms young’
- ECT Lessons-I’ve-Learned #2: Wear a short-sleeved t-shirt
- Write Away
- ECT Lessons-I’ve-Learned #1: Importance of Social Support
- taking stock of things
- my first 100 days
- Cutting on the room floor
- Repligen licenses patent rights for bipolar disorder drug from McLean Hospital – Regulatory Affairs : News
- gratitude for ‘This (Asian-)American Life’
- The first attempt
- The New Yorker: The World of “neuroenhancing” drugs
- PMS post-ECT
- “Lucky You”
- delusion of seduction?
- In the News: Bipolar symptoms have impact on day-to-day tasks (as if we didn’t know this already)
- Don’t cry over shattered glass
- Let’s have some tea!
- AJ Soprano and my ‘revelation at hand’
- in difference
- NIMH: Black Teens, especially Girls, at High Risk for Suicide Attempts
- In the News: Yoga almost as effective as ECT?
- Leaving the “House” unprepared
- Wash it all down
- back “In Treatment”
- Confidence in sunshine, confidence in rain
- Jay Cutler: my earliest career inspiration?
- In Other Mental Health News…
- April Showers
- Financial Abili[t]y for Abilify
- Mending
- Questions & Ambiguous Answers
- Mood Indigo
- Abilify: The Abilify for the week
- Could a ‘bipolar gene’ come to help like the ‘breast cancer gene’?
- Old Habits
- The Family Inheritance
- FDA approves expanded use for Zyprexa/Prozac combo drug
- 30 days later.
- Mother
- David Frum and the elliptical: the Abilify for the week
- Examining life through the lens of the Sopranos (prologue)
- Whether(ing) Patterns
- Down because of the weather? Don’t blame the ECT!
- 21 Days Later.
- I can see the hospital!
- Rush Limbaugh: one little girl’s inspiration
- found memory: the other side effect
- systemic shock
- ECT in the news
- this post is about terrell owens
- driver’s ed., revisited
- an ect premonition?
- it’s March. Madness in my head: is it over?
- The Sine Wave Issue
- February and the American Mob
- Tomorrow, tomorrow
- Oh, the things I have forgotten and yet to explore
- 15th..and..FINAL(hopefully)course of treatment!!
- all-tied-up
- oh, i forget. and other innaproriate deeds
- number 13 and counting…
- sources to read while you ECT for another week
- Beyond 12th round of ECT….
- on to the 12th round
- out of my mind…
- Could this be the final week?
- Let. It. Be.
- return of the tremors
- Did I speak too soon?
- If this picture excites me…
- Steelers v. I can’t remember…
- “Good Seizure!”
- asian family secrets
- doubt
- happy 50th birthday, keith olbermann!
- up the amp for hope
- a fit of a role, a status of a label
- third time’s (not yet) the charm
- waiting for a lift
- Be patient, patient.
- political indifference
- the first little spark
- breathe and reboot…
- On ambivalence about being ambivalent
- save the date
- Flashback
- A Life Lesson from George W. Bush (Really)
- Lost and Found: what will be left?
- Model Deviance
- Finding a little spark
- Thanks, Heritage Foundation
- Going Public
- mental notes
- “I am. I am. I am.” or so Esther said.
- waiting is the hardest part.
- It’s the ECT Countdown time……
