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

neurosis:
“a mental and emotional disorder that affects only part of the personality, is accompanied by a less distorted perception of reality than in a psychosis, does not result in disturbance of the use of language, and is accompanied by various physical, physiological, and mental disturbances (as visceral symptoms, anxieties, or phobias)” (Merriam-Webster).
I used to behave in a neurotic fashion when I was younger. Not so much anymore. These days, behavior that may seem neurotic is actually more obsessive-compulsive behavior – for me, that is. I don’t know what changed, and I don’t really care – I’m better at managing the …read more