Category Archives: Mental Health Awareness

10 Most Common Personality Disorders – Fitness Tips for Life

Personality disorders are often misunderstood by anyone without a medical degree. Because they are very complicated and hard to diagnose, misinformation ex.

Disability rights groups weigh in on New York assisted suicide case

Eleven disability rights groups, led by Not Dead Yet, filed an amicus brief in support of a recent court decision, currently on appeal, dismissing a challenge to New York State's physician-assisted suicide law. “Our basic position …

Autistic Self Advocacy Network Joins Disability Rights Amicus Brief …

On Wednesday January 6, the Autistic Self Advocacy Network joined Not Dead Yet and nine other disability rights organizations in filing a friend-of-the-court brief opposing physician-assisted suicide in New York. The brief …

Treating Bipolar Disorder Without Medication – living in stigma

This article appeared on a new site I found Science20.com discussing Bipolar Disorder. The words 'Lithium', 'weight gain' and 'olanzapine' are mentioned which are all too familiar to me. Bipolar disorder is a diagnosis given …

Mental Health to Medicaid: Here is the Latest Health Care-Related …

Congress picked up where it left off prior to the holiday recess, introducing several pieces of legislation relating to health care in the House and Senate. Senate: S. 2438, Sherrod Brown, to amend titles XI and XIX of the Social …