Category Archives: The Shrink’s Links

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”

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”

The Shrink’s Links: The Night of the Gun

Bringing you the best of mental health every week. Cultural commentator, David Carr, of the New York Times, died recently. He was a recovering cocaine addict. Fourteen years after he stopped using, he decided to write a book about his addiction. Being the journalist he was, he did not write it the usual way, asContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: The Night of the Gun”

The Shrink’s Links: The Evil Hours

We are born in debt, owing the world a death. This is the shadow that darkens every cradle. Trauma is what happens when you catch a surprise glimpse of that darkness, the coming annihilation not only of the body and the mind, but also, seemingly, of the world. So says David Morris, author of TheContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: The Evil Hours”

The Shrink’s Links: Dylan Mariah

Bringing you the best of mental health every week. This week’s link from the shrink is the website of a colleague, Dylan Mariah. I first met Dylan when we both worked together at a community mental health center. She is one who understands what is really important. Today, she, too, has a private practice andContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: Dylan Mariah”

The Shrink’s Links: Lincoln’s Depression

Bringing you the best of mental health every week. Lincoln’s Great Depression Abraham Lincoln fought clinical depression all his life, and if he were alive today, his condition would be treated as a “character issue”—that is, as a political liability. His condition was indeed a character issue: it gave him the tools to save theContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: Lincoln’s Depression”

The Shrink’s Links: How to Date Successfully

Bringing you the best of mental health every week. If you expect to be alone for Valentine’s Day and don’t want to be, you may be interested in attending a class that my friend, Dolly Malik, will be leading on how to date successfully. The class will be at the Rochester Brainery on Monday, FebruaryContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: How to Date Successfully”

The Shrink’s Links: Should I Stay or Should I Go?

  Bringing you the best of mental health every week. I picked up Should I Stay or Should I Go? hoping that I might find an algorithm for divorce or reconciliation, some kind of formula in which one could plug in factors and come away with an inarguable conclusion about how much effort couples shouldContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: Should I Stay or Should I Go?”