Turning a Stigmatizing Experience Into A Positive
Did you read over the weekend about Palmer Advertising in San Francisco, and the ad they put on Craigslist?...
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Hero
I’m floored, honored and proud! Tim was selected by ABC News as one of their Eleven Heroes of 2011...
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Pitiful?
I’ve heard and read a lot of accounts lately from parents and caregivers about other adults either giving unsolicited...
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Advocate or Hardass? NABPM / NaBloPoMo Day 9
There has to be a fine line between being an advocate and fighting stigma, and being a killjoy. I...
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Stigma and Sophie’s Choice Part 2 – NABPM / NaBloPoMo Day 7
Continuing from yesterday, I do think mental illness has a caste system. The disorders that are seen as less...
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Stigma and Sophie’s Choice – NABPM / NaBloPoMo Day 6
I watched Sophie’s Choice the other day. It’s an amazing movie of a tragic and painful story and while...
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Nickelodeon Needs to Be Educated – Guest Blog for BC2M
I cringe, wondering what tweeners who watched that think about psychiatric treatment. If they ever experience depression, will they...
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Live Blogging iCarly – iLost My Mind
iCarly iLostMyMind Live Blog...
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Nickelodeon, iCarly Loses Their Minds – and Perpetuates Stigma
If you follow me on Twitter (Chrisa_Hickey) or follow the Child and Adolescent Bipolar Foundation (bpkids) then you know...
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Dr. Kaplan, Narrow-Minded Purveyour of Vaguery, M.D.
There’s an article in Newsweek this week by a Dr. Stuart L. Kaplan, M.D. The jist of the article is...