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BarlowGirl to Launch Million Voices Fall Tour
Thursday, July 03, 2008
Source: CMSpin
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It turns out that more people commit suicide with a firearm than murder:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/...
"More than 90 percent of suicide attempts using guns are successful, while the success rate for jumping from high places was 34 percent. The success rate...
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Gay marriage is on a lot of people's minds today.
And, at least for the wedding party, it will improve their minds' health, according to some psychiatrists.
For Gay Marriage Day '08, I dug this story out of Psychiatric Times:
Numerous studies exploring the relationship between mental health...
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In response to my last post about budget cuts in the Department of Mental Health, antiextremeism responding comparing DMH with Department of Public, along with Kern County's statistics of West Nile Virus.
Antiextremenism correctly pointed out that KC had the large number of human case in...
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I am just venting here,and really expect no answers....
It has been an emotional week for me, a week in which my dearest friend became so disassociated, they submitted to a hospital . Prior to this episode ,being depressed, they sought a...
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I thought it might be good to give you some details about our situation.
My son is 26. He was diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and paranoia when he was 21. He was diagnosed in a military hospital, but the diagnosis has been confirmed by other doctors as well. (Please no...
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Thanks to those who responded.
It's interesting how many people know someone who has a mental illness. But, like that proverbial elephant, no one wants to mention it. Why?
Fear, I believe is the main reason. Fear of the unknown. Fear of not being believed. Fear of being criticized.
As a mom,...
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This morning my world is calm; it's not always that way. You see we have a family member who suffers with a serious mental illness.
Our son was diagnosed in 2001. Each one of us had our own notion of what that diagnosis meant.
I thought he could be "fixed" with the right doctor...
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Did any of you get to see "Away from Her" as part of last Friday's FLICS at the Fox Theater?
It was very good, and I urge any of you who haven't seen it to give it a viewing.
Here's the plot summary from IMDB.com:
Fiona and Grant are an Ontario couple who have been married for over...
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Consider this:
"As obscene as it sounds, a generation or two ago, black people were considered to be inherently ugly, stupid, unsanitary, lazy and enslaved by creature comforts. Today, fat people are assumed to be inherently ugly, stupid, unsanitary, lazy and enslaved by creature...
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As Baby Boomers age, taking care of elderly relatives will become a greater task.
To help people with relatives suffering from Alzheimer's, the Alzheimer's Disease Association of Kern County is hosting a workshop on caregiving.
Starting tomorrow, "Alzheimer's, The Basics in...
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The news is not good folks. The deserter rate is up to 1%, which may not sound like much but in an “all volunteer” Army that is quite a few folks who just walk away. A steady increase over the last four years, and a 42% jump since last year point to a stressed out...
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After my last post, a reader asked me to explain a little more about the Green Gardens concept. Here it is in a nutshell.
Green Gardens is an apartment complex run jointly by Golden Empire Affordable Housing, Kern County Mental Health and the Kern County Housing Authority. It was created...
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On July 10th at 9:00 a.m. I appeared before the Kern County Board of Supervisors, where I made a proposal for the Supervisors to take under advisement. I told the Board that I had been in the Kern County Mental Health system for almost twenty years, and I think the green Gardens concept is...
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Yoda knew something was up with Anakin Skywalker, and finally someone agrees with him.
Reporting their findings at the American Psychiatric Association's annual meeting, researchers have determined that the young Darth Vader meets the criteria for borderline personality disorder, right in...
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I arrive by a synthesis of heart and mind to any conclusion or plan,logic is too cold,especially for this..Forget about guns,forget those two hours between killings~in 2005 we could have prevented this !Recent events have torn at me~the mothers of those young people I especially feel...
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Are you or your child dressing up in a straight jacket for Halloween? Have you been chased by a pretend psychiatric patient in your favorite haunted house? Do you relish watching the Halloween movies, in which Mike Myers, an escaped psychiatric ward patient wreaks havoc?
Do any of these strike...
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