Collecting My Thoughts

Our book club assignment for September is Rough Sleepers by Tracy Kidder.  Here is a summary of a model program from 1985 to the present at...

Pro-Publica and Frontline reporting on moving high functioning mentally ill people out of managed homes to supportive “independent” living. ...

This young lady is the daughter of a friend.  Not sure of her age, but she’s about 19-20. I spent some time with her about 7 years ago when ...

There is no national data base of the mentally ill that I'm aware of. Yet I know people concerned that the latest restriction on the 2n...

I was watching news coverage of the mental state of the former TV news colleague in Virginia who killed two reporters of WDBJ- TV live on c...

Perhaps you watched 60 minutes Sunday night about Austin Deeds, son of Virginia state Sen. Creigh Deeds, who left a Virginia hospital emerge...

They always look for motives. He wasn't poor—a preppy; he graduated from a great pubic high school; he had a job; was environmentally co...

For the general population, a conservative estimate of an individual’s risk of having full-blown bipolar disorder is one percent. Disorders ...

There's a brief article in the Dispatch today that is a peek at what we all can expect when the government controls our health care: law...

Death at the Camp Liberty Counseling Center “Monday's shooting also raises new questions about how the U.S. military screens and treats ...

Men: are you depressed? And I don't mean about a serious international incident as Joe Biden promised us if we elected Obama. No, this i...