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- 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……
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