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It seems like just a few Saturday Sanities ago I was talking about how warm and sunny it was outside; now, we’re covered in snow. We have been all week. I still don’t have a winter coat (I didn’t have one last year, either – I can be very serious about my procrastination) and Chopper doesn’t understand why we don’t go outside 9,375 times a day anymore.
Anyway…
This week at Mental Health Notes, I talked about a new study about the television viewing habits of unhappy people, commented on two legal situations involving mental health issues (the …read more

Tammy Lewis may have recently received some good news, but Virdia Spain and Iluminada Tuzon most certainly have not.
According to the Chicago Tribune, Spain and Tuzon, employees of the Elgin Mental Health Center in Illinois, have each been “charged with a felony count of abuse of a long-term health-care facility resident” after a coroner’s jury ruled former patient Howard Morris’s death was “homicide by negligence.” (Hmm…seems like the felony charge should be, I don’t know, something related to “homicide by negligence” and not “abuse,” but, what do I know?)
Anyway, the story is that Morris was allergic to fish, but he …read more

Remember back in May when I glazed over the Tammy Lewis/Alan Bushey/Magdeline Middlesworth case?
You know, the one where Tammy Lewis (who lived with the 90-year-old Middlesworth on the advice of six-member religious sect leader Alan Bushey) kept Middlesworth’s corpse on her toilet for something like two months after she died. The idea was that God would bring Middlesworth back to life, so, no need for a burial. Yet, God didn’t bring Middlesworth back to life (actually, I thought he’d kind of fallen out of that practice after Jesus, but then Velma Thomas came along, which probably ticked Bushey off more …read more

Today marks the end of Children’s Mental Health Week, and it seems like I just keep running into sad and…odd mental health news related to children.
Case in point:
Tammy Lewis, mother to a 15-year-old daughter and a 12-year-old son, and self-described bishop Alan Bushey are in custody on “felony counts of being a party to causing mental harm to a child.”
According to a Yahoo! News article, Lewis and her two children lived with Magdeline Alvina Middlesworth’s corpse for two months on Bushey’s advice. Bushey claimed Magdeline (who was 90 years old when she died) would come back to life.
Well, Magdeline did …read more