Feb 21, 2022 | Bipolar Spectrum, Mental Health
What are mental health deserts? You’re probably familiar with the concept of food deserts right? Large swaths of the country where it is impossible to find healthy, affordable, produce for example. The corollary impact on people’s health – obesity, diabetes, heart...
Jan 19, 2022 | Mental Health
The following is an excerpt from my upcoming memoir, BrainStorm: From Broken to Blessed on the Bipolar Spectrum. Here’s what it’s like for those of us on the bipolar spectrum. Imagine you wake up every day with an excruciating, immobilizing headache. Your limbs are...
Dec 23, 2021 | Covid, Mental Health, News
The New York Times recently reported that the U.S. surgeon general, Dr. Vivek H. Murthy, “warned that young people are facing ‘devastating’ mental health effects as a result of the challenges experienced by their generation, including the coronavirus pandemic.” As one...
Dec 23, 2021 | Covid, Mental Health, Shadow Work, Vaccination
We are two years into the Covid-19 pandemic, and while it is hard not to think of it as a plague, its serious nature has been affecting our society. I’ve come to think about covid and its variants as outlaws from nature. There have been hundreds of thousands of...
Oct 1, 2021 | Mental Health
Mental Health. What are the ingredients that go into it? Parents know that their kids are NOT all right as a recent New York Times editorial named. They are suffering from social isolation, from lack of physical contact, from missing so many things – sports, dates,...
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