If you’re hoping to use insurance to pay for marriage counseling, you’re likely to be disappointed. Couples’ counseling is rarely covered by health insurance because marital issues are not considered by the insurance companies to be a health problem. The exception is when one of the parties is in treatment for a mental health orContinue reading “How to pay for marriage counseling”
Author Archives: Keith R Wilson
When Madness Takes Cover
So, you’ve stopped drinking, or drugging, or gambling, or sleeping around. Your depression seems to have lifted. You haven’t been violent. Your anxiety no longer makes all the decisions. You’re up in the morning and dressed when you need to be. The madness seems to have gone away. Has it, really? Madness takes cover sometimesContinue reading “When Madness Takes Cover”
The Shrink’s Links: Stop It
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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?”
The Shrink’s Links: Secular Organizations for Sobriety
Bringing you the best of mental health every week. If you like the idea of a self help group to assist you in your recovery from chemical use, but think AA and it’s kin talk about God too much, there is another choice: Secular Organizations for Sobriety, otherwise known as SaveOurSelves. It’s AA without theContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: Secular Organizations for Sobriety”
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