Aug 24, 2019 | Mental Health
President Trump was asked about gun violence following the two horrific attacks in El Paso and Dayton. Any time there is a mass shooting we here about gun control. Rarely do we hear about it when individuals are murdering each other. “We’re looking at the whole gun...
Feb 18, 2019 | Ethics, Mental Health, Politics
We talk a lot about bullying. We talk to kids in school about bullying on social media, especially now that bullying has moved from the school yard right into the homes of our children. Yet, when it comes to protecting our children, we too often...
Aug 4, 2018 | Mental Health
I’m angry. My doctor was commenting on the fact that I am in the last third of my life. No, I am not angry about that! Out of nowhere it just came to me that after all these years I am angry because the stigma of mental illness kept me from...
Jul 27, 2018 | Mental Health, News
What is the equivalent word for “Islamophobic” when irrationally attacking the mentally ill? It’s safer to sacrifice the mentally ill on the altar of truth than even suggest the possibility of a terror attack and be labeled an Islamophobe. A man takes a gun and...
May 3, 2018 | Ethics, Mental Health
It was Marshall McLuhan who wrote the Medium is the Message. Love to hear what he would say today about the easy abuse of social media by mean girls-young and old. McLuhan wrote in 1967 that we live in a complex system of information, physically,...
Feb 24, 2018 | Mental Health
My parents were the true heroes in the fight for mental wellness. And I am trying to carry on. Looking back I did not give either of them the credit they deserved. My father, living with bipolar 2 disorder, for being a successful business man, able to put two...
