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The age of Thanksgiving, and how to survive it by Tom D. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Mental Health My "age of innocence" ended on a New Year's Day, back in the early '90s, when I heard a police call about a house fire in southern New Jersey. I was an ambitious, bu ... Read on »

Something about John by Tom D. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Mental Health John Clear walked out of a jail two years ago, declared that he found religion and went home, to Point Pleasant, N.J., where he thought he could find a new life in an old plac ... Read on »

The life and art of Kimberly Green by Tom D. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Mental Health Last week, I wrote a well-received blog on Kimberly Green, a woman who's suffering from stage 4 breast cancer, but nonetheless has sacrificed so much of herself to give to so ... Read on »

Bloggers beware? by Tom D. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Mental Health What you're about to read was written by me. All the tools and labor were paid by me. The advertisers? I probably pay more to have them on my blog than they pay me. Free pr ... Read on »

Behind every gun is a story by Tom D. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Mental Health President Obama says we shouldn't jump to conclusions about the shooting deaths at Fort Hood. It's understandable, however, what many people's first impulses might be. There ... Read on »

What can be done about health care? by Tom D. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Mental Health If you don't understand health care, then maybe you should see somebody who is sick. Like Kimberly Green. She's had breast cancer for more than three years. Her treatment co ... Read on »

Give her health insurance, or give her... by Tom D. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Mental Health When it comes to health care, Kimberly Green doesn't get it. Oh, don't think for a minute she doesn't know anything about sickness. She's had breast cancer for more than thre ... Read on »

Bringing changes to the mind by Tom D. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Mental Health Glenn Close, in a film directed by Ron Howard, has marked the launch of the "Bring Change 2 Mind" campaign, a nationwide effort to raise awareness about the toll of ... Read on »

Hope isn't a dangerous thing by Tom D. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Mental Health Every time I hear of more job losses, or I see more reports of a failing economy, I think back to when I was a kid, and I had dreams of being a best-selling book author by the ... Read on »

Right from the mouths of babes by Tom D. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Mental Health By DARCIE BORDEN Featured Blogger From David Kerr, founder and president of Integrity House: If you want to know why kids use drugs, or how you can tell if your teen is devel ... Read on »

Fear and loathing of the flu by Tom D. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Mental Health As I've tried to put the finishing touches on my book proposal, I couldn't find anything to write about. A'vast ye swine! Now there is. To paraphrase FDR, sometimes it's the ... Read on »

Parents, what are Wii doing? by Tom D. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Mental Health As the hours passed, our toes went numb. We shook our legs from time to time, just to keep the blood flowing. Some of us wondered who'd be the first to suffer frostbite. For ... Read on »

Stick up for your child, even when he's wrong by Tom D. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Mental Health When I was a kid, my parents seemed to come to my rescue just at the right time — even when I didn't deserve it. Once, my parents stormed into the principal's office to ... Read on »

The emotional toll of losing a home by Tom D. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Mental Health Their burning homes turned into ash, melted steel and crumbling concrete. Their possessions, their memories and their lives went up in smoke as wildfires raged for weeks near ... Read on »

When a hero turns scary by Tom D. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Mental Health His laugh sounds like a broken car horn. He could use a haircut — all over his body. And he has this habit of talking in the third person. I'm speaking of Elmo, of &quo ... Read on »

9/11 pain still fresh for many by Tom D. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Mental Health Over and over, they're told to "get over it." But when 3,000 people die in a terrorist attack, how can you? Especially when somebody you know is among the dead. &q ... Read on »

Parents' challenge: managing morning chaos by Tom D. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Mental Health My wife and I recently developed an interest in cloning. How else are we going to get two boys off to two different schools at the same time, deal with our 20-month-old and ge ... Read on »

Ted Kennedy and mental health care by Tom D. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Mental Health As flawed as he was, the real, true hope for mental health parity came, and went, with the late Massachusetts Sen. Edward "Ted" Kennedy. Though Congress passed ment ... Read on »

Michael Jackson death is ruled a homicide: Still self-inflicted? by Tom D. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Mental Health The King of Pop also seemed to be the King of Escaping Trouble, whether his hair was on fire, his house was being repossessed or his nose was falling off. Somehow, he still go ... Read on »

Front-line insanity by Tom D. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Mental Health War and sanity mix like whiskey and cocaine. What's left is disaster accelerated. As the death toll in Afghanistan rises, the government is stepping in to help many soldiers ... Read on »

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