Entries Tagged as 'depression and mental illness'
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for the blogging yourself home workshop at MentalHealthCamp, i had referred to a number of books in addition to leon tan’s fabulous article on MySpace and blogging as a form of self therapy.
here they are:
writing from the heart - tapping the power of your inner voice, by nancy slonim aronie
love the friendly, welcoming, comfortable tone […]
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Tags: creativity: poetry, art, etc. · depression and mental illness · emotional health · interesting books · the net · therapy
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Tags: depression and mental illness · goals · gratitude · wordless wednesday
in my last MentalHealthCamp post, we started talking about what the word “home” means to us. the wordle image here illustrates what some of the commenters in that post said, as well as what was mentioned during the workshop at MentalHealthCamp.
what happens when you are in this good home, and you’re going through a […]
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Tags: creativity: poetry, art, etc. · depression and mental illness · the net
here are my opening notes to MentalHealthCamp yesterday; they followed raul’s great introduction to the workings of social media. we decided that he would be the social media guy and i’d be the mental health gal. (how well raul and i worked together deserves a whole post by itself).
i managed to present most of […]
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MentalHealthCamp was amazing! it’s saturday evening now and i’m pleasantly tired after this wonderful day of community and learning. if you’re dying of curiosity regarding what happened, read the tweets here and here. i’ll report more in the next few days!
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my little workshop for MentalHealthCamp, “blogging yourself home” about blogging, writing, creativity and mental health had me think hard about the connection between these topics in the last week or so. i was deligthed, then, to come across alison, who blogs (and teaches) about writing about mental health. in this post, she asks […]
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Tags: blogs of note · creativity: poetry, art, etc. · depression and mental illness
for today, i’ll simply send you over to the MentalHealthCamp site.
we have a list of presentations now - really interesting stuff - topics reach from anonymity and pseudonymity to ADD to online therapy to stigma and self stigma - please check it out! the title of my presentation will be “blogging yourself home” - […]
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Tags: creativity: poetry, art, etc. · depression and mental illness
the following is a guest post by kat sanders, who regularly blogs at MRI technician schools. she welcomes your comments and questions at her email address: katsanders2 at gmail.com.
the opinions expressed in this post are kat sanders’ – i personally don’t take as strong a stance as kat, mainly because, as i say time and […]
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the last few days, i have been thinking repeatedly about the ideas fellow vancouver blogger karen fung has brought up in her post on march 9. she muses about three topics, all of which fascinating. the one about mental health issues with immigrant populations is particularly intriguing, perhaps because for the past year, […]
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Tags: communication · depression and mental illness
i just came back from an invigorating time with raul raul and cathy, talking about MentalHealthCamp. poor cathy had to listen to me being stubborn about not “massaging” the message about MentalHealthCamp too much – i like the raw greassroots approach.
what’s funny is that on my way back on the bus i read […]
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March 12th, 2009 · 1 Comment
the mental health camp that grew out of our panel discussion at the northern voice blogging conference is growing in leaps and bounds. we now have
a date - april 25, 2009
a location - workspace (for free!)
a blog
a registration page
and a call for presenters
and a twitter ID
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my good friend carol has a new blog, cha-cha-cha - adventures with tea. she just published one of my melodramatic poems there, ode to tea.
tea - a neverending topic, really. reminds me a bit about the twitter and face-to-face conversations i’ve had in the last few days (with the ever-thoughtful ashok, for example) about the […]
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Tags: depression and mental illness · interesting books · spirituality
February 23rd, 2009 · 9 Comments
coping digitally, a session at the 2009 northern voice blogging conference that talked about the intersection of blogging and mental health and how social media can help derease the stigma of mental health was a real success. raul did a live blog of the session. thanks, raul!
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February 21st, 2009 · 9 Comments
this is a summary of the discussion we had on monday about mental health and blogging. thanks for all the great comments! i will use this as my guideline (guidepost?) for my participation at coping digitally, a panel discussion about mental illness and social media that i’ll be part of at the northern […]
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