One of the reasons why I enjoy TherapyDoc’s writings is because she tells stories that bring issues like depression and therapy at a human level. In Can You Cry Too Many Tears?, TherapyDoc begins by describing a tradition that is steeped in tears and the process of grieving in the Jewish culture. She then considers the delicate balance between crying as a natural and normal process, and crying continuously as a sign that someone needs help. Along the theme of grieving, Laura Young shares with permission an article titled “Grief Sucks” by Patrick Weiland, whose sister was murdered last August. (more…)

When Scott submitted his article series on therapy appointment to my mental health blog carnival, I excluded his entry from the carnival edition. I wanted to dedicate a post on the article series he had written.

I was impressed by both the comprehensiveness of information Scott shares and the personal approach he takes in writing these articles. Scott’s Finding Your Marbles blog is becoming a unique voice in the mental health blogosphere, and I thank him for sharing his writings with us.

What I’ve done is to give you an outline version of Scott’s article series. You can get an overview of the content that you can expect from each article in the series, and you can visit a specific article that catches your interest. (more…)

I want to thank everyone for your overwhelming response to this edition of our carnival. I personally visit each and every entry submission, and where warranted, comment on the entry. Thus unlike other carnivals where your entries simply get listed, you know your submissions are being read (at the very least, by me!). However, this also means my carnival posts tend to run long. We’ve received almost 20 entries in this edition! Unfortunately I had to eliminate entries that are not directly related to mental health, which is unrelated to the quality of the post.

This edition will be particularly lengthy. If you need to find a particular topic, you can hit the [Ctrl] + [F] keys to “find” the word you are looking for without scrolling down paragraphs of text. (more…)