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Mental Health Deserts

Mental Health Deserts

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...
Gratitude

Gratitude

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...
Surgeon General warns of Youth Mental Health Crisis

Surgeon General warns of Youth Mental Health Crisis

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...
Prioritize our Kids Mental Health

Prioritize our Kids 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,...