History of Mental Health
Psycho Donuts: Q’est-ce que c’est?
via The Trouble with Spikol. There’s a donut shop in Northern California that uses mental illness and an insane asylum as it’s theme. Here’s a sampling of news stories from Fox News, AOL, and ABC News. In addition to naming donuts after various mental illnesses and brain conditions (e.g. “bipolar donut” [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Lizzie Simon at CCSU: Stigma Busting Par Excellence
Wednesday night I had the pleasure of attending a talk by Lizzie Simon
author of Detour: My Bipolar Road Trip in 4D. The talk was organized by the Central Access and Student Development office at CCSU, NAMI On Campus, and the Farmington Valley Chapter of NAMI-CT. She started with describing how she explained mental illness [...]
New Article on “Virginia Tech Massacre”
Just received the latest issue of the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth. It contains an excellent article, “The Thirty-Third Victim: Representations of Seung Hui Cho in the Aftermath of the ‘Virginia Tech Massacre,’” by my friend and Virginia Tech history professor, Kathleen Jones. Nice job, Kathleen!
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Heath Ledger and Bipolar Disorder
In yet another shameless effort to boost my blog stats, here’s a comment on Trouble With Spikol’s recent post on the possibility that Heath Ledger had bipolar disorder. According to a new biography, Heath’s uncle Hadyn has bipoloar disorder and suggests that the young star may have been as well. Spikol says she hates these [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Rethinking the Drinking Age: a historical perspective
Once again, Historiann has beat me in posting on a hot political topic — the Amethyst Initiative, initiated last month by a group of college presidents who argue that the National Minimum Drinking Act (1984), which imposed a penalty of 10% of a state’s federal highway appropriation on any state setting its drinking age lower [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 5 so far )Nostalgia Time: Bob Newhart and Mental Illness
This past Sunday, I took a break from Olympics coverage to watch the excellent PBS American Masters episode on Bob Newhart. The documentary reminded me how much I loved the original “Bob Newhart Show” (the later one, not so much, even though it was set near my home town in Vermont). I was also struck [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )MentalHealthEdu
I just completed the training module for MentalHealthEdu, an online program to raise awareness about college mental health issues . I found the website was very accurate, drawing on material from the American College Health Association. It also gave good practical information for faculty, staff, administrators on how to help students in distress. However, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Help Support Housing for Mentally Ill Persons
Courtesy of NAMI National:
HR 5772 Proposes Innovative Section 811 Demonstration Program and Includes Long Overdue Reforms to Existing Section 811 Program
NAMI and our colleague disability advocacy organizations in the Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities Housing Task Force (CCD Housing Task Force) and the Technical Assistance Collaborative (TAC) are pleased to announce that important legislation [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Sad Anniversary
Today is the one year anniversary of the murder-suicide at Virginia Tech, so I thought I’d write something even though it’s been a long day. According to an article in last week’s Chronicle of Higher Education, the main actions by Virginia governor Timothy Kaine have been to weaken privacy rights of individuals with mental illness, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Disability History in the News
It’s been a busy week here at the University, so I haven’t had much time to do more than note the following articles related to disability history, loosely defined in one case.
First up is the New York Times review of The Lives They Left Behind, a book version of an exhibit on the Willard [...]
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