In the past week or two, after the deaths of fashion designer Kate Spade and chef Anthony Bourdain, we have seen a great deal of reporting about suicide. Reading about these events, I’ve started...
It’s important to understand the risks of taking any medication. But it’s also important to understand where those risks came from. There is a black box warning on antidepressants for children and young adults. This...
“Would you be mine, could you be mine? Won’t you be…my neighbor?” How many of us can sing that song without a hitch? On June 8, a new documentary was released to theaters recalling the...
Mental illness is often seen as a “white person’s disease”—a product of privilege, a chosen illness. It is represented in the media by people who are white, while those who are not suffer in...
We at SOVA are mental-health and communications professionals, and we use those skills to design blogs that give you—our readers—information about mental illness in manageable portions that you can grasp. For example, here are just a few...
We’ve developed an infographic about the perspective about gun violence that we gained after interviewing Dr. Jack Rozel M.D., an expert in the subject and medical director of Resolve Crisis Services in Pittsburgh. One...
I wrote a couple of blogs (here and here) about the Stand Together project and its year-end celebrations among its middle and high-school students who work to bring greater awareness to their fellow students...
RED ALERT! Sound the alarms! Batten down the hatches! I forgot to take my antidepressant! The above panic was me earlier this week. I take an SSRI antidepressant each day when I wake up...
Understanding the difference between healthy striving and perfectionism is critical to laying down the shield and picking up your life. Research shows that perfectionism hampers success. In fact, it’s often the path to depression,...
Have you heard of Headspace? It’s a company helps promote mindfulness in everyday living. As of last year the Headspace app had been downloaded 11 million times and more than 400,000 people had subscribed. Headspace ranked as...
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