Mental Health Notes Asks: What Do You Really Want? May Edition
May 26, 2008 by Alicia Sparks, Mental Health Notes
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
So, I don’t know if it’s because I have some kind of sixth sense or what, but I started thinking, It’s about time for another edition of What Do You Really Want?
I looked at the first What Do You Really Want? and saw that I posted it on April 26.
Today is May 26.
[enter Twilight Zone music]
So, really, I must have some kind of sixth sense, right? To have thought it was time for another What Do You Really Want? on the same day of the month as the last one?? Right?
Yeah, alright, it was a complete coincidence. Let’s get …read more
Saturday Sanity: Keeps The Doctor Away
May 3, 2008 by Alicia Sparks, Mental Health Notes
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
Well, OK, you got me. Saturday Sanity doesn’t exactly keep the doctor away, but it does keep you up to date with what’s going on in the world of mental health, and that’s good too, right?
I talked about a lot of stuff this week here at Mental Health Notes. Not only did I get to brag about my fantasy boyfriend and how awesome his fans are, but I also announced a contest/giveaway in honor of both Mental Health Awareness Month and Mental Health Notes’s own first birthday! Chato B. Stewart officially kicked-off the This Is Why I ROCK! series, and …read more
Blame Sexy Women For The Crappy Economy
April 29, 2008 by Alicia Sparks, Mental Health Notes
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
Haha, not really. Well…at least, I don’t think so?
According to research conducted and led by Northwestern University finance professor Camelia Kuhnen and Stanford psychologist Brian Knutson, sex and money trigger the same area of our brains – the V-shaped nucleus accumbens, or, our brains’ pleasure center.
During the research, which involved 15 heterosexual men (no women were involved in the study because the researchers thought it would be more difficult to find erotic images that appealed to each woman – we’re much pickier, you know), it became clear that the men were more likely to take big financial risks after being …read more




