Sunday Sanity Strikes Again!

Saturday Sanity once again becomes Sunday Sanity, folks!

• Thursday was b5media’s Science & Health Channel theme day for December, and I shared 5 Ways to Prevent Stress During the Holidays. (If you haven’t already chimed in with your own tips for preventing stress during the holidays, head on over and get to typing!) Now, you can check out the rest of the Channel’s lists at Kendra James’ And Now Presenting…The Science and Health Channel’s List Day.
• This week the DBSA reminded me that the “mental health community has been waiting more than five years for Mental Health Parity to pass” and that we can still help push the process along by writing our representatives. So, start writing!
• Exercise may boost brain’s natural antidepressant. Serotonin isn’t a word you’ll read in this quick, yet informative article; rather, you’ll be learning about VGF.
• Predicting Post-traumatic Stress Disorders In Deployed Veterans. “Canada’s peacekeepers suffer similar rates of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders (PTSD) as combat, war-zone soldiers, according to a London, Ont. research team.”
• N.B. woman knew what she was doing while disposing of newborn: psychiatrist. “A New Brunswick woman who put the body of her newborn son into a fire pit was not suffering from a mental disorder at the time, a psychiatrist told her sentencing hearing on Friday.” I may just have to touch on this one a bit deeper later on.