If you’ve been regular readers of either of my three blogs, Help My Hurt, Womb Within, and Cancer Commentary, you may be wondering where you they are and where you ended up if you clicked on the URLs for those sites.
All three blogs have been retired by b5media in their redesign and new direction. Instead, they now have portals and the Blisstree.com portal is for life and health issues. Although I don’t write those three blogs any more, I was asked if I’d stay and write in their general health section. I agreed because although I enjoyed writing those blogs, …read more

Aside from suffering a would-be job disappointment, I had a pretty productive week. I got a good bit of work done, caught up with some snail mail, finally found the perfect collar for Chopper, hung flyers for our next NAMI meeting and ensured it would be announced on the news, in the paper, and in two local radio stations’ community events, and managed to prepare a pretty decent Saturday Sanity for you all!
This week at Mental Health Notes, I passed along announcements regarding The Melanie Blocker Stokes MOTHERS Act and a new online self-help treatment program for bipolar disorder, shared …read more

My bookmarks and email inbox have been bursting at the seams this week, just waiting to get into Saturday Sanity for all you fine people! Now that the day has arrived, it’s clear to me there is so much Saturday Sanity-worthy news, I’d best break it up so as not to take up 3/4 of the front page, ha!
So, read on for what’s been going on at Mental Health Notes, in the world of mental health news and advocacy, and throughout the b5media Health & Wellness Channel!

I don’t have any babies of my own (unless you count Miss Penny Lane and Chopper – which, I totally do, so I guess I should say I don’t have any two-legged babies of my own), so I don’t really know what it’s like to carry a human being in my body for nine months.
Much less what to do with it once it arrives.
I imagine pregnancy can be a pretty busy, exciting, and stressful time, especially if you’ve never been pregnant before. This is only one of the 9,456,274 reasons I’m putting it off until I’m 30. I honestly can …read more