April 2015 – Keith Wilson

The Shrink’s Links: RochesterWorks!

Bringing you the best of mental health every week. RochesterWorks!, is the area’s largest employment and training center. If you are looking for a job, or a career changed, check out their services. They are free of charge Click here to go to the website

The Shrink’s Links: How to Fly a Horse

Bringing you the best of mental health every week. Kevin Ashton thinks we make too much out of creativity, geniuses, and inspiration. He believes great insights and achievements are made by ordinary thinking. “… each of us is more like Mozart than not. We can all create, we can all contribute, and we all should.”Continue reading “The Shrink’s Links: How to Fly a Horse”

Scarcity Mentality: Why you aren’t happy when you’ve got it so good

Food has never been cheaper. Houses never warmer in the winter or cooler in the summer. People not only live longer, but they stay healthier longer. Information about almost anything is at your fingertips. Crime and violence, by any objective measure, is at an all-time low. There’s opportunity to travel in less than 24 hoursContinue reading “Scarcity Mentality: Why you aren’t happy when you’ve got it so good”

The Shrink’s Links: Spiritus Christi Mental Health Clinic

Bringing you the best of mental health every week. You can still get mental health treatment in Rochester, even if you’re not made of money. If you have a high deductible health insurance plan, or have a high co-pay, or if you are violating the law and have no insurance at all, just contact theContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: Spiritus Christi Mental Health Clinic”

Acknowledgment: April is the Cruelest Month

Contrary to popular belief, suicide rates do not peak at Christmas time. Here in Western New York, as elsewhere, they peak in April. So does all kinds of psychiatric hospitalization, depression and relapses of addiction. Why is this so, when hopes of Spring abound? Maybe the contrast between the inner weather and the outer weatherContinue reading “Acknowledgment: April is the Cruelest Month”

What is Madness?

Someone asked why the name of this blog is Madness 101. Shouldn’t I call it Mental Illness 101? Isn’t mental illness the proper, politically correct term? It is, but it’s not really mental illness that I’m writing about. I’m writing about the related subject of madness. Illness is something that happens to you beyond yourContinue reading “What is Madness?”