Saturday Sanity: Stress Abounds
September 27, 2008 by Alicia Sparks, Mental Health Notes
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
I’ve been fairly stressed out this week.
The state of the American economy, the housing market, health insurance (or lack thereof), my yet-to-be paid off student loans – in other words, money (or again, lack thereof) – all have me freaking out just a bit about my future and my country’s future.
I didn’t used to worry about things like this. Of course, I don’t remember a time in my life when things ever seemed this bad.
Anyone else feeling the stress? Have some suggestions for mellowing out? I’d love to hear them.
In the meantime, let’s check out what’s going on in the …read more
HealthBookSummaries.com Offers Health Books For Free
September 25, 2008 by Alicia Sparks, Mental Health Notes
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
I recently received a press release about HealthBookSummaries.com, a new website that provides condensed summaries of health books for free.
Always interested in freebies, I registered (yes, you have to register), sent an email about the site to three of my friends (you get a free copy of Natural Appetite Suppressants for Safe, Effective Weight Loss when you do), and then began browsing the free books.
So far, the library only consists of a handful of health books, and I didn’t see any that are directly related to mental illness; however, I did find a few that were related to mental health, …read more




