‘What Should We Have Known?’
A conversation with FOX News Health host, Dr. Manny Alvarez. Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Mental illness, unlike breast cancer, isn’t celebrated with big marches or pink ribbons. The …
Articles
What is the most important factor in treating mental illness? Competence.
It’s been nine years this week since my late husband David died by suicide. Everything about this time of year releases a cascade of emotion that is unbearable, the softening …
What is the most important factor in treating mental illness? Competence. Read More »
Dear Grandma, Here’s Why I Missed My Partner’s Mental Illness.
A reader of my book, ‘All The Things We Never Knew’ suggested it would be impossible to be married to someone for ten years and not realize that they had …
Dear Grandma, Here’s Why I Missed My Partner’s Mental Illness. Read More »
Mass Shootings: It is a mental health problem. And it’s a gun problem.
A reporter wrote me the other day asking for a quote in the wake of the Roseburg shooting. She wanted to talk about how mental illness is being stigmatized by …
Mass Shootings: It is a mental health problem. And it’s a gun problem. Read More »
An Open Letter to Responsible Gun Owners
I was one of the television reporters on the scene of Oregon’s first mass shooting, May 21, 1998. When Kip Kinkel opened fire in a lunchroom full of his fellow …
Music, play and faith in mental wellness
Ty Taylor is the explosive and dynamic frontman for Vintage Trouble, a funk, soul and rock band out of Los Angeles who is now playing to crowds upward of 125,000. …
Healing one chord at a time: My Voice Music
I am in LOVE with this program. Ian Mouser is a local singer-songwriter who worked in a therapy setting with kids struggling with behavioral problems. Ian noticed the almost immediate …
Happiness is a garden. Tend to it.
Eric Hutchinson gladly lent his support to the #KeepOregonWell campaign. The singer-songwriter talked openly about battling depression and why he thinks everyone should consider talking with a therapist about the …
Alpha Rev Frontman Casey McPherson/Suicide Survivor, mental health advocate
Alpha Rev’s Casey McPherson’s music has so much emotional depth and beauty, one begins to sense that this charismatic frontman has been to very, very dark places and lived to …
Alpha Rev Frontman Casey McPherson/Suicide Survivor, mental health advocate Read More »
David Gray on self-care and mental health awareness`
If a young musician asked me whose career to emulate, I’d have no hesitation in answering David Gray. Gray has managed to achieve both commercial and critical success while maintaining …
David Gray on self-care and mental health awareness` Read More »