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December 3, 2013
Mental Health: Peer Bridgers Reduce Hospitalizations, Boost Recovery
There’s more news out of Seattle this week regarding innovations in mental health. A program called peer bridging matches a person who’s just been released from in-patient treatment with a person who can act as their advocate and help them navigate the requirements and resources of agencies in the community. The bridger helps with the …
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November 25, 2013
Ten Whackadoo Travel Facts From Around the Globe
I love the weird, gross and obscure—finding it and then sharing it with you (like this post on how butter rum flavor comes from the scrapings inside a civet’s anus, for example). This week, let’s focus on travel, shall we? A large cruise ship can generate 210,000 gallons of human sewage during a week-long cruise. …
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November 19, 2013
Mental Health: Psychiatric Bed Shortages and Boarding
Even though I read the entire Internet every day, I’m always gobsmacked by the sheer volume of things about which I know NOTHING. Sometimes, you have to go out into the real world to get wind of some of these things. That’s how I found out about the escalating number of cases of boarding in …
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November 13, 2013
Travel: Village Farming in Suriname’s Amazon Jungle
You won’t find a lot of Big Ag in Suriname; in fact, you won’t find a lot of big anything there. With a population that barely eclipses the half-million mark—most living along the northern coastal area–the largest venture in South America’s smallest country is bauxite mining. And while there are some export food crops, primarily …
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November 5, 2013
Travel: Do Disorderly Tourists Make You Lose Your Marbles?
Whether you live in a popular tourist town or are a frequent traveler yourself, there’s one thing that could test even Buddha’s patience: unruly tourists. There are a lot of them out there – 1.035 billion international tourist arrivals in 2012, to be exact. So when their cultural quirks tread on your tolerance, does your …
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October 29, 2013
New in Mental Health: Depression Risk Starts Before Birth
Happy pregnancy, happier baby? Yes, according to a recent report on a UK study. At age 18, the children of mothers who had depression during pregnancy were found to be 1.3 times more likely than normal to develop depression themselves. The data came from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children, which is hosted …
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October 22, 2013
Fear of Rejection: Hello, Goodbye (#WIBN Conference 2013)
Even though I’m writing a memoir about having a mother with a mental illness, and the personal journey that came from that, I don’t blog much about the shifts in thinking and feeling that are still going on in my body and soul. Then, in early October, I attended the Women in Biz Network’s (WIBN) …
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October 15, 2013
Travel Survey: A Short, Fun Questionnaire With Prizes!
Hello, all! This week, I’m getting scientific (my scientific friends are laughing at me right now, but they will suffer corns and bunions for that). I’ve created a silly and simple 10-question, multiple-choice travel survey. Complete the survey, and your name could be drawn for one of three prizes, mailed to your house, anywhere in …
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October 8, 2013
You and Mental Health: Strategies for the Dark Months
While some people might be ticking off the days until Christmas, my eye is already on spring (although I’ve so far resisted the urge to download the spring countdown widget). If you live in Australia or Arizona, the onset of the northern hemisphere’s fall and winter may not be such a big deal to you. …
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October 1, 2013
Travel: The Resident at Hagia Sophia
Throughout its life as a church, then mosque and now museum, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia has remained a grand and dignified beacon. Each year, thousands of people arrive to view its Byzantine beauty and take in the domes and pillars, mosaics and minarets, just as Francis and I did in 2011. And quite unexpectedly, (but just …
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