Practicing Mental Illness

Limitations.  We all have them, but sometimes illness adds new ones that we never before had to deal with.  Accepting this fact was a ch...

Anxiety disorder is much more than being very nervous or edgy.  In anxiety, a person will report an unreasonable exaggeration of threats,...

I have a lot of ideas.    Some of them good ones.    I’ll get started down the path to developing one, maybe even turning it into a thri...

I've received many benefits from my meditation practice.  Yet, as I've written in some of my most often read posts, I'm skep...

The cultivation of mindfulness requires periods of focused attention.  Many proponents of mindfulness maintain that this is best develo...

I'm writing a new blog for PsychCentral called Getting Older with Bipolar.  It deals with issues of aging and mental illness.  I...

I come from a long line of seekers, my mother’s side of the family known for trying on various spiritual traditions in a search for tru...