Saturday Sanity: Keeping Up With Yesterday
May 24, 2008 by Alicia Sparks, Mental Health Notes
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
This week was a pretty good week for me. After stumbling through weeks and weeks (perhaps months and months) of just ambling around, having no real direction, and letting “problems” continue to fester and multiply, I finally took some control. I made plans. I made appointments. I made decisions. I updated my planner and thus far I’ve stuck to it.
I stopped avoiding.
And I feel great.
Now it’s time for some Saturday Sanity, and I hope by this time next week, I still feel just as great.
At Mental Health Notes, I shared survey findings about saving money on prescription medications, passed along …read more
Saturday Sanity: Upgrade Your Brain
April 19, 2008 by Alicia Sparks, Mental Health Notes
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
I’m really enjoying the new layout of Saturday Sanity. I think it’s doing a much better job of providing more Saturday Sanity-worthy links, don’t you?
Anyway…
First, let’s take a look back at some of the things that have gone on here at Mental Health Notes this week. We kicked off the stress-busting Goin’ to the Chapel series with Molly McDonald (which wraps up later today), learned how Harry Potter saved J.K. Rowling’s sanity, took a really brief peek into possible new French legislation regarding eating disorders, and pondered the University of Virginia’s new policy on students with mental illness. Oh, and …read more




