Now on Instagram Too

Now on Instagram Too

Being a tech and social media geek means that I’m always playing around with new things. In the interest of doing different things with social media, I’ve created a new Instagram account for this site. It won’t necessarily have things that are shared anywhere else, but it will be a way to share some different…

Rock Bottom Revisited – A Personal Story
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Rock Bottom Revisited – A Personal Story

Earl K. Long Hospital, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Jan. 1997. Many people who’ve been through mental health issues, addiction, and so on, refer to “rock bottom”, that one place in time when things got so bad, they couldn’t get any worse. For me, that was Jan 1997. My marriage had just ended, I quit therapy and…

Video – There’s No Shame in Taking Care of your Mental Health

Video – There’s No Shame in Taking Care of your Mental Health

When stress got to be too much for TED Fellow Sangu Delle, he had to confront his own deep prejudice: that men shouldn’t take care of their mental health. In a personal talk, Delle shares how he learned to handle anxiety in a society that’s uncomfortable with emotions. As he says: “Being honest about how…