Bringing you the best of mental health every week. The Isabel Symptom Checker gives you access to a highly sophisticated medical diagnosis tool that is much more powerful than previously available symptom checkers. Using the latest searching technologies, the system can take a pattern of symptoms in everyday language and instantly compute from their vastContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: Isabel Symptom Checker”
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The man who loved lobster
There was once a man who loved lobster so much he couldn’t stop eating it. He was surrounded by stinking lobster carcasses because he couldn’t take the time away from eating to clean them up. They stunk to high heavens. No one wanted to be near him and his lobster carcasses. Every time he startedContinue reading “The man who loved lobster”
The Shrink’s Links: The Yellow Wallpaper
Bringing you the best of mental health every week. This hundred-and-some-odd-year-old short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is often regarded as a classic of feminist literature, but it’s much more than that. It’s a terrifying horror story that challenges the subjugation mental patients still experience from their doctors. A woman suffering from post-partum depression isContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: The Yellow Wallpaper”
The Shrink’s Links: The Best Of Apophenia
Bringing you the best of mental health every week. In case you haven’t noticed, people are on the internet a lot these days. There are fears that it will affect their mental health. It’s a good thing we have Danah Boyd, geek extraordinaire, to figure it out for us. Read her blog, Apophenia, which, incidentallyContinue reading “The Shrink’s Links: The Best Of Apophenia”
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: 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: 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”
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