Perpetual Care
In the past week, while the unspeakable horror of Hamas unfolded, and the gut-wrenching images tore at my Jewish soul as despair gripped us all, I had been enmeshed in a different, dark world –...
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Rosalynn Carter First Lady of Mental Health
I wanted to take mental illness and emotional disorders out of the closet, to let people know it is all right to admit having a problem without the fear of being called crazy. If only we could...
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Tinsel -Toxic Glow Of Christmas Past
Tinsel is making a big comeback this Christmas, but it never really left. Literally. Ghosts of Christmas Past seem to appear in the most unlikely places. While recently sorting through some dusty old...
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It May Be 1864 in Arizona But Roevember is Coming
In 2024 right-wing Christian Nationalists are burning through women’s rights with the same fury and zeal as General Sherman did in 1864 when he destroyed and burned down everything in his path in his...
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When Brain Fog Rolls In
Well, it looks like my 1955 Manufacturer’s Warranty has finally expired. Suddenly at 69, my various body parts have given out all at the same time and I’ve spent more time at the body shop than my...
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Changing the Narrative on Suicide
I was still playing with Barbie dolls the first time I thought of suicide. Beginning in childhood, while depression took up permanent residency in my mind claiming squatters’ rights, suicidal thoughts...
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Donald The Great Protector
“I will protect you,” he says with a clenched fist. How many abused women have heard those exact words from their abuser, even as they double over in pain from bruised ribs. “I will make you happy...
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How We Talk About Mental Health Matters.
Mental hospitals have a long and sordid history in popular culture. In 1948, “The Snake Pit” was a groundbreaking film that looked into the horrors of a mental institution. For Donald Trump, calling...
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A Haunted Hospital
I love being a Mom to Moe, but sometimes Moe is a Mom to me. Especially now. On Thursday I am having a small surgical procedure at a hospital about 40 minutes from my home. After nearly a year of...
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Trump Derangement Syndrome
New York Times Opinion Section October 27, 2024 When it comes to medical acronyms, I struggle with a few – PTSD, DID, CFS, and occasionally a touch o’ OCD. But one syndrome I absolutely do NOT have is...
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Down of The Farm with RFK Jr.
They’re coming to take me away haha Robert .F Kennedy Jr, the man with a worm in his brain, is not just going after the prescription drugs people use to prevent and manage depression. Bobby wants to...
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