I know they’re pretty, but it’s time to get caught up on the goings on in the world of mental health!
This week at Mental Health Notes, it was back to business as usual after my three-day vacation. In addition to helping you update your calendars with mental health awareness weeks for July, I also passed along an article regarding using our brains to promote health. I also started a discussion about handgun laws and how they may be related to suicide statistics, proved to you that hard mental health advocacy work pays off, and introduced you to two interesting Web …read more

Guilt is a nasty thing.
Merriam-Webster defines guilt as “the state of one who has committed an offense especially consciously” and “feelings of culpability especially for imagined offenses or from a sense of inadequacy.”
I define guilt as the nagging little entity in my mind that feeds itself by depriving me of sleep, making all food inedible, and screwing with an array of my relationships until it grows and grows and grows and inevitably turns into an ugly, stinking troll with razor sharp teeth and fungus-ridden nails whose sole mission for existing is to gobble up my brain, making any sense of …read more