The Shrink’s Links: Mutual Help

Bringing you the best of mental health every week. If you’ve seen Ken Burns’ newest documentary, The Roosevelts, you know about the part where FDR was stricken with polio. He woke up one morning, unable to move his legs. What followed was a terrifying and painful ordeal. It took doctors weeks to diagnose the problemContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: Mutual Help”

The Shrink’s Links: Mad in America

Bringing you the best of mental health every week. Not everyone connected with the treatment of and recovery from mental illness goes along with the medical view that it is a chemical problem that has a chemical solution. Anyone interested in rethinking psychiatric care would want to read Mad in America. Click here to goContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: Mad in America”

The Shrink’s Links: Old Man Gloom

Bringing you the best of mental health every week. If you were amused by the post I wrote on Keith’s Crock of Shit, then wait till you get a load of what they do in Santa Fe. Every year, the Kiwanis Club of Santa Fe, New Mexico constructs a huge effigy of Zozobra (the SpanishContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: Old Man Gloom”