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| What are the antidepressant suicide warning signs for teens? |
| Published: July 24, 2008, 1:14 am |
| Tags: Home, Antidepressant, Coping With Depression, Cure For Depression, Depression, Drugs, Pills, Prescriptions, Suicide, Teen Depression |
| Yes, antidepressants medicines might increase the risk of suicidal thinking in some teenagers. Call your doctor immediately if you notice one of many of these things. If your teen starts to have new or more thoughts of suicide, trying to commit suicide. She might even have new or even worse depression, or new or worse |
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| Pick a number: 20 or 9,000,000 |
| Published: July 24, 2008, 12:51 am |
| Tags: Depression, Personal Thoughts, Statistics, Suicide, Aesthetic, Aestheticism, Art Deco, Barrier, Bipolar, Bipolar Disorder, Death, Depressed, Depression, Ellington Bridge, Golden Gate, Golden Gate Bridge, Impulsive, Impulsive Act, Jumpers, Marin County, San Francisco, San Fran |
| 20 people annually or 9,000,000 people annually. Those are the numbers that the Golden Gate Bridge (GGB) Board of Directors will need to choose between in October. GGB officials are considering a proposal to erect suicide barriers on the bridge. Public forums were held on Tuesday and Wednesday to gauge public reaction to the five options |
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| Comforting a Child After a Nightmare |
| Published: July 23, 2008, 8:27 pm |
| Tags: Overcoming Anxiety, Anxiety, Bad Dreams, Child, Children, Comforting A Child, Comforting A Child After A Nightmare, Fear, Nightmare, Parents, Safe |
| Sometimes our dreams are manifestations of our anxieties and fears, especially in the case of nightmares. While adults may be frightened after a nightmare, I think kids may be even more afraid because sometimes they do not understand the difference between dreams and reality. Parents have the responsibility to comfort their |
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| Mental Health Humor : Medicated Death |
| Published: July 23, 2008, 6:39 pm |
| Tags: New Cartoon |
| Free Mental Health Humor : Medicated Death - I thought I would review a few medications. Since many of our readers might have been on quite a few of them at one time or another. If you have been keeping up with the post, then you already know, I’m big into the use of medications as part of a treatment plan… Given |
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| Welcome Aboard! |
| Published: July 23, 2008, 5:15 pm |
| Tags: Help, Kid Help, Ranting |
| Something of great interest to myself, and of great concern to many parents is the dreaded c-word: censorship. When should a child be prevented from reading certain material, watching a movie, or even playing a video game? I hear arguments from both sides. Children should be protected, cry one group, because children are too young |
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| Mental Health Humor : Sticks And Stones |
| Published: July 22, 2008, 8:46 pm |
| Tags: New Cartoon |
| Free Mental Health Humor : Sticks and Stones - Almost every child has heard the old saying “Sticks and stones will break my bones but names will never hurt me.” I’m not sure if this is just an American expression or if other countries have their own saying like it. If there is, please feel free to comment |
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| R.I.P. Storms of Madness |
| Published: July 22, 2008, 5:17 pm |
| Tags: Weblogs, Storms Of Madness |
| Stephany at soulful sepulcher stumbled upon Tenuous at Best's post about how Dobro at Storms of Madness passed away suddenly. Dobro's blog was (and has been) an encouragement to me. May she rest in peace. She will be missed not only by family but also by those whose lives she never knew she touched. |
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| Adults Have Nightmares, Too |
| Published: July 22, 2008, 4:12 pm |
| Tags: Overcoming Anxiety, Anxiety, Comforting Yourself After A Nightmare, Dreams, Nightmares, Nightmares In Adults, Self Soothing Techniques, Things To Do After A Nightmare, Worry |
| Dreams are often manifestations of what we worry about, either consiously or subconsiously. Likewise, nightmares often portray the things we fear the most. You may think only kids have nightmares, but in fact according to WebMD 50% of adults experience nightmares occasionally. Furthermore, between 2-8% of adults have |
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| 2-Year Anniversary: The Long and Winding Road |
| Published: July 22, 2008, 3:27 pm |
| Tags: Personal Thoughts, Anniversary, Antidepressants, Bipolar, Bipolar Disorder, Blog, Blogs, Borderline Personality Disorder, Bpd, Celebrities, Depression, Depression Introspection, Desvenlafaxine, Diagnoses, Diagnosis, Drugs, Educating, Education, Educational Tool, Effexor, Eve |
| I'm aware that my blog has taken a significantly dark turn. This may alienate some of my readers who seek happier, brighter topics. I don't think my posts have been negative; on the contrary, I think they've been positive. Positive and educational. I've been exploring the topic of suicide recently because it's a subject that's quite near |
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| With Dieting, Success Is in the Details |
| Published: July 22, 2008, 9:09 am |
| Tags: Food And Diet |
| Paying attention to the particulars of food. |
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| The Raw Food Rage |
| Published: July 22, 2008, 9:09 am |
| Tags: Food And Diet |
| Raw food is in the spotlight. |
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| Dieting: Allowing Shades of Gray |
| Published: July 22, 2008, 9:09 am |
| Tags: Food And Diet |
| An all-or-nothing mind-set can be self-defeating. |
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| First Post… |
| Published: July 22, 2008, 8:15 am |
| I got into this because i like the idea of blogging, and getting payed for it =D . So anyways, this blog is not about me being depressed, it’s about teen sociology and their mindset about drugs. In high school, there is a common rule in popularity: Anyone who is good-looking is popular. It’s as simple as that. This |
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| The Era of Quick Fixes |
| Published: July 22, 2008, 6:28 am |
| Tags: Depression, Medicine Medication, Mental Illness, Personal Thoughts, Cbt, Counseling, Dbt, Depression, Drugs, Emotional Pain, Emotions, Medication, Meds, Out Of Darkness, Pink Magazine, Psych Drugs, Psych Meds, Psychotherapy, Psychotropics, Quick Fix, Talk Therapy, Therapy |
| Pink magazine has an article called "Out of Darkness" on high-powered, successful women (likely in corporate America) who suffer from depression and try to hide it. There's an online exclusive but the actual article can only be read in the print version of the magazine. Apart from the three resourceful sidebars accompanying the article, the |
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| Mental Health Humor: Ask Dr. Bob Bob - TYPO |
| Published: July 21, 2008, 5:58 pm |
| Tags: Ask Dr Bob Bob, Mental Health Humor |
| Mental Health Humor: Ask Dr. Bob Bob - TYPO - Man, there is nothing that makes me feel more worthless and just stupid then my spelling and grammar! When you read my blogs, you might not think that I have a major problem with this. The fact is, that it took me years to be able to improve my basic writing skills. See, I know |
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