I only have an eye roll for this: When California voters passed a tax on high-income residents in 2004, backers said it would make good on the state’s “failed promise” to help counties pay for the treatment of the mentally ill. After nearly 15 years, Proposition 63 — the Mental Health Services Act — has…
I know I’ve linked to many thing along this line before, but we do suffer from a serious lack of listening in our society, amidst all of the attempts to get attention on social media, or become famous, we often forget to stop and actually listen to people. And yet… “Listening can open a door…
The study doesn’t provide answers as to why parents mental health issues improve when the kids get treatment, but I think this makes a lot of sense: “Relationships are reciprocal,” says Laura Mufson, the associate director of the Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at Columbia University, who was not involved in the study. “If…
The news out of Berkeley isn’t good for anyone who suffers from insomnia as a result of anxiety, manic episodes, or depression. Turns out that being sleep deprived, even a little bit, makes us less likely to be social, and also less socially acceptable to others. Notably, researchers found that brain scans of sleep-deprived people…
I don’t know that I have a lot of readers in South Africa, but the quote from this article does go to show that this is a worldwide problem. Living in the US, and being connected to a number of folks from the UK and Australia, I may hear and read about it more in…
I love the fact that this article not only lists this great reasons why talking can be helpful, but also reminds us that we need to think about who we talk to. Reasons to Talk It gives us a sense of “doing” something. By talking, we are doing something active not passive and we are…
