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"Call Me Crazy": Lifetime's New Movie That Champions Hope and Resilience Around Mental Illness
*Warning: it was difficult to write this post without including a few small spoilers,…
suicide
"Girls" Tackles OCD: What I Hope IS NOT Happening In Our Emergency Departments
This afternoon I had the pleasure of having some downtime- so I used it to catch up on…
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Tumblr Contemplates A New Policy Against Self-Harm Blogs: Let's All Weigh In
Tumblr is a popular microblogging platform. It lets you share anything from text to …
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Media Must Cover Suicides Cautiously- In Today's Philadelphia Inquirer
An editorial that I co-authored ran in today's Philadelphia Inquirer. The piece i…
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Google Continues to Use its Power for Public Health Good
Yesterday, Google announced its new surveillance system for Dengue Fever . Dengue Fe…
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Hollywood's "Dilemma": Should "Gay" Jokes Be Censored?
Recently I went to see "The Social Network". We watched several movie traile…
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Bullying: Is Technology Helping Us or Hurting Us?
Like many of you, my heart broke when I heard about the suicide of Tyler Clementi las…
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Technology: Building Social Connections or Breaking Them Down?
Last week, a friend at work told me that she had given up watching TV for Lent. She s…
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Confirmed: Alexander McQueen Died by Suicide. When will Entertainment Reporters Catch on to Recommendations for Safe Reporting on Suicide?
The fashion world suffered a great loss last week. For those of you who also drool ov…
