Saturday Sanity: Farewell, Mental Health Notes

Back in early 2007, when b5media and Dr. Hsien-Hsien Lei (the Channel Editor for the Health & Wellness Channel at the time, which, at the time, was still called the Science & Health Channel) created Mental Health Notes and gave me a chance to take my mental health advocacy online, I was ecstatic. I’ve really enjoyed writing about the numerous mental health topics I’ve covered here at MHN – from handing out A.S.S. Awards to pushing for mental health parity.

However, now, a year and a half later, it’s time for me to move on. I’m not leaving the blogging world, or the mental health advocacy scene – on the contrary, I’m now going to blog for PsychCentral’s new celebrity mental health blog, Celebrity Psychings (cool name, huh? yeah, I thought so too).

You may be thinking, “But, Alicia…you’ve always been so adamant about not invading celebrities’ privacy regarding their health…why are you now going to write a blog about, um, celebrity mental health?”

Well, that’s true. I am adamant about respecting celebrities’ privacy when it comes to their health; however, I’m also super excited every time a celebrity comes forward about mental health issues. So, you can rest assured the blog will in no way make assumptions about a celebrity’s mental health, or degrade or make fun of celebrities. One of the goals with Celebrity Psychings will be to help educate the public about the mental health conditions they hear about in the news, while watching TV, while surfing the Internet…you get the idea.

Plus, the blog will also touch on mental health in the media and entertainment scenes. (Michael Scofield, here I come.)

It’s been great working with b5media, and especially my fellow bloggers within the Health & Wellness Channel. It’s also been great getting to know some of you readers. I do hope you’ll check out the new blog once it goes public, and if you’d like an email update when that time happens with a link to the blog, please don’t hesitate to shoot me an email at crypticquill AT yahoo DOT com.

In the meantime, keep advocating!