Vox’s posts tagged mental health

Crackatonic Projects announces Optimism 2.1.0 for Mac OS X

nobody@vox.com(prMac) — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:47:48 +0000

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Crackatonic Projects announces Optimism 2.1.0 for Mac OS X

nobody@vox.com(prMac) — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:47:25 +0000

Crackatonic Projects is proud to announce Optimism 2.1.0, an update to their popular health-wellness planning application for Mac OS X. Optimism helps a person with depression to take a pro-active approach to their health, by providing a platform ...

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Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

nobody@vox.com(loucindy) — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 20:18:14 +0000

Of Mice and Men is about poverty and loneliness. And people have written a lot about both themes. But there is another theme as well. Two guys with nothing in common form a friendship and stick together. Other characters find it suspect because g...

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Under Pressure

nobody@vox.com(Strive2Be) — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:08:28 +0000

For every one police officer killed in-the-line-of-duty, three more officers die from suicide.

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Government Cancels Form Asking Drivers About Mental Health

nobody@vox.com(Strive2Be) — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 07:15:21 +0000

I was speaking with a woman at our local Canadian Mental Health Association branch, and she said that the new forms for renewing a person's driver's licence had been sprung on everyone without any warning at all. She said that no one had any ide...

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Gotta Love the People In Power Sometimes

nobody@vox.com(Strive2Be) — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 05:26:24 +0000

Critics: Don’t tie driver’s licence renewal to psychiatric history By JEFFREY SIMPSON Staff Reporter Wed. Sep 10 - 6:31 PM Mental health advocates think the province should steer clear of asking drivers about their psychiatric history. "It’s ...

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DONE WIT MAH SHHHHIIIIZZZNIIIITTT!

nobody@vox.com(strvngrtist929) — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 04:02:08 +0000

Alright sweet so I just got done with my projects and shit and now Im all sleepy but I dont feel like sleeping cos well...Im like eighteen almost and really...what eighteen or almost eighteen year old wants to waste time sleeping when there's so...

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Is my head broken?

nobody@vox.com(GiGi) — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:16:19 +0000

I saw a therapist yesterday and I'm not sure what to make of it yet. It was quite a different experience from the previous doc I saw over a year ago. Although the last one was cute, he didn't really seem interested in what I had to say or how I f...

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DGW Episode 644

nobody@vox.com(InsideDGW) — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:18:22 +0000

Franklin Speaking Spelling Bee Educational Toy Link: Franklin The Speaking Spelling Bee from Franklin is a handheld game station with a qwerty keyboard, for playing spelling games. You can compete against the machine itself, or against your ...

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Superwoman

nobody@vox.com(Mahoganie) — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:12:53 +0000

Somewhere in between watching late night showings of the Olympics and catching reruns of The Golden Girls, I managed to see Alicia Keys' latest video for the song Superwoman. Though I have the album As I Am in my possession, I've only listened ...

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No Permit, No Fishing

nobody@vox.com(Strive2Be) — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:48:16 +0000

"Hey, you can't be fishing in the sewer systems, buddy. It's a violation of the Health Code....unless you've purchased one of our Permits. Plus, it tells us a little of your mental capacity to comprehend being a danger to yourself and others. Fi...

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Voluntarily in the "Looney Bin"; 9 South, Mount Sinai Hospital

nobody@vox.com(Inukshuk) — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:22:10 +0000

Well it was all getting too much, especially thoughts of suicide, for me to handle on my own, so after an appointment with my psychiatrist, she phoned to see whether there was a place in the same hospital she is (and there was). So I am getting o...

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Words instead of tears.

nobody@vox.com(Vox populi) — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:09:20 +0000

I have a son. I haven't seen him for twelve years. This wasn't by choice. When I was raising my four kids I was alone and unsupported for most of it. My second child,a girl,was a nightmare to raise,she had what would now be diagnosed as ADHD a...

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I'm an emotional idiot, get away from me.

nobody@vox.com(katrinka) — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 05:51:25 +0000

Ladies and gentlemen, here is Maggie Estep, narrating my life: I'm an Emotional Idiot so get away from me. I mean, COME HERE. Wait, no, that's too close, give me some space it's a big country, there's plenty of room, don't sit so close to me. ...

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Drug Trials and Tribulations

nobody@vox.com(Inukshuk) — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:44:09 +0000

It is getting close to one year since my doctor made a psychiatric referral for a possible diagnosis of bipolar disorder. After she took me off the anti-depressants I was on, she started me on Epival. Once I saw the psychiatrist and got the diagn...

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Well, shit.

nobody@vox.com(Forrest) — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 02:21:42 +0000

Personality Disorder Test Results Paranoid |||||||||||||||||||| 90% Schizoid |||||||||||||||||||| 90% Schizotypal |||||||||||||||||||| 86% Antisocial |||||||||||||||||||| 86% Borderline |||||||||||||||||||| 86% Histrionic ||||||...

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Busy, Busy, Busy...

nobody@vox.com(Scott "Q" Marcus) — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:00:02 +0000

Two young moms in sweatpants and sneakers, pushing streamlined strollers, jogging in tandem, rounded the corner. "I'm swamped! I need to clean the drapes, Michael's pulling extra shifts this week, and we're trying to get everything together to he...

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Hearts Towards Home - Military and PTSD Talk Radio Show

nobody@vox.com(Humbled Infidel) — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:10:58 +0000

. . Hearts Towards Home Blog Talk Radio Show Show July 20 Sunday’s 11:30 pm to 12:30 am Central Time following: Pat Dollards Jihadikiller Hour Show Host Reverend Don is a former Combat Marine who served in the Vietnam War. Don w...

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Sometimes I can't sleep.

nobody@vox.com(Minger) — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:14:51 +0000

And when I can't sleep I think about the stuff I saw all throughout the day before. Most of the time nothing stands out in my mind in a big enough way to actually share to the world. But this did. She died on the floor of a hospital as people...

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How's the "War on Drugs" working out?

nobody@vox.com(TruthTeller998) — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:07:51 +0000

Americans are world's top drug users: study 21 hours ago WASHINGTON (AFP) — Americans are the world's top consumers of cannabis and cocaine despite punitive US drug laws, according to an international study published in the online scientific maga...

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