Just caught the news report that Howard Stern, attorney and friend to Anna Nicole Smith, was brought up on charges that he helped give her prescription drugs. Basically, prosecutors said, he enabled her.
Stern is charged, of course, with being part of a ring of conspiracy. He’s suspected of helping Anna Nicole become more and more addicted to drugs so that he could possibly get her money. But what if Anna Nicole was just a regular girl?
I couldn’t help but wonder what would happen if enabling became a crime all around. Not just for famous people. …read more

I Must Shave My Legs: The OCD Miniseries – Part 8
Woohoo! We’ve come to the end of the OCD miniseries here at Mental Health Notes and, as promised, I have a list of celebrities with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Oooh, it’s not very often we get some juice here at Mental Health Notes, is it?
Note that in order for a celebrity to be considered as having any kind of mental health disorder, s/he must have publicly stated it, written about it, or some other reliable source must have announced it. I don’t just go around diagnosing people with OCD.
With that, …read more