Carnival Mental Illness - Edition #3

Carnival Mental Illness – Edition #3 – December 28, 2007

I welcome everyone to the third edition of Carnival Mental Illness.

Both the first and second editions were raving successes, and December’s submission count was incredible. 

Submissions are:

Articles & Information

Dana at Principled Discovery  presents: Fundamentalism, Psychotropic drugs and Mass Murder

Albert Foong at Urban Monk  includes an interesting article on self-esteem and much more entitled: Psychology’s unique contribution to your Compassion and Self-Esteem

Motherjones-rn at Nurse Ratched’s Place  wrote an excellent article (and a *must read*) on eating disorders; namely anorexia titled:  Dying to be Beautiful 

Therapydoc over at Everyone Needs Therapy  submitted: Using What You’ve Got, describing “You don’t have to be ill to get better”.

Shaheen Lakhan at GNIF Brain Blogger  presents a very interesting article: Beat Depression with Brain Food while Eating Junk Food 

Charles H. Green at Trust Matters  submitted: Larry David, Seinfeld and Social Networking describing: How “Curb Your Enthusiasm” has been used to teach mentally ill patients social skills and why it works for ordinary folks as well.

Dr Martin Russell at his blog discusses Are You Going Wrong Right?

Lucynda Riley at Witch on White Mountain writes a lesson-to-be-learned article titled: Think before you shout something out a window!!!

Support Information

Keyboard Culture Community, Lori Prokop Co-Founder at Keyboard Culture presents:  and explains the following:     

Supporting Trauma Survivors – Part I

In this article by Dr. Patricia Sherman, Healing is Possible Expert at Keyboard Culture, you will learn how to support people and loved ones as they go through traumatic experiences. When we experience trauma or the feeling of being “broken in some way,” we may actually become stronger as we heal.

Supporting Trauma Survivors – Part II

Dr. Patricia Sherman, Healing is Possible Expert at Keyboard Culture says one of the ways in which we can support trauma survivors is to provide a “holding environment” for them as they recover as survivors contemplate moving through trauma into healing.

Personal Writings 

Addy at “All That I Am, All That I Ever Was” wrote a personal article on the major taboo subject of suicide.  These are very well written and must read.  **Triggers**

“All That I Am, All That I Ever Was”: Let’s talk about suicide…Part 1

This is the first part in a series of 3 articles I wrote regarding suicide. They deal with my own suicide attempts, and also the suicide of someone close to me. Raising suicide awareness is something I am passionate about, more needs to be done to help those suffering from the loss of a loved one, and for those suffering suicidal thoughts.

Addy at “All That I Am, All That I Ever Was” writes another personal article: “All That I Am, All That I Ever Was”: My War against Mental Illness

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Once again, thank you for the submissions to the 3rd edition of Carnival Mental Illness.   

I just want to state that this will be the final presentation of this Carnival on my ”Living in Stigma blog.  It is still up in the air, as to who will be continuing with Carnival Mental Illness, so until then, Carnival Mental Illness will come to a close.  I had great support and terrific submissions, however, due to my decision to close this blog, I will not be continuing.  Thanks to everyone.