The May Blog Carnival of Mental Health Is Up

This is just a note to let you all know that the May Blog Carnival of Mental Health, themed patients and professionals is up at The Madosphere. It is a nice collection of posts, so check it out. The June carnival will be hosted by Pandora from Confessions of a Serial Insomniac, and the theme [...]

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May Disability Blog Carnival

Welcome to May’s Disability Blog Carnival, on the theme of care. I’m two days early, but I was finished compiling the posts already. We have a very small carnival, but it is beuaitful nonetheless. Most people have written about interactions with professionals, but there is a good post on self-care, too. Carl Thompson of Working [...]

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Sign the Petition Against Gay Death Penalty in Uganda

Tomorrow, the Ugandan Parliament will vote on a gay death penalty bill. This is horrible. Gay people are already in danger of the death penalty, but this bill could make it even worse. AVAAZ has created a petition to sign against this bill. The site is not very accessible, so don’t blame me for not [...]

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13-Year-Old Girl Latest Victim of “Corrective” Rape

In South Africa, a 13-year-old girl is the latest victim of “corrective” rape. “Corrective” rape involves the raping of lesbians in order to “cure” them of their sexual orientation. The goveornment condemns this crime, but I wonder whether they will genuinely act upon it. It is obviously at least as serious a crime as other [...]

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Hear Voices? You’re No Longer Schizophrenic in DSM-V

In DSM-IV, if you hear voices, you can be diagnosed with schizophrenia even if this is the only “psychotic” symptom. This has been controversial for a while, because many people hear voices without being actually psychotic. Not only other conditions – such as dissociative identity disorder – are characterized by voice-hearing, but voice-hearing may be [...]

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Factitious Disorder

I have been told a few times that I fake being dissociative. Faking is often assumed to be a behavior problem, sometimes even an offense, rather than a mental illness. In fact, factitious disorder, popularly known as Münchhausen Syndrome, is a real mental health condition. In DSM-IV, factitious disorder is characterized by intentional feigning or [...]

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Born Unwanted: Psychosocial Consequences for Children Whose Mothers Were Denied Abortion

Abortion is, of course, a vjery controversial but relatively common means of fertity planning. A lot of research has been done on various aspects of it, such as mental health and medical consequences of abortions as compared to completed pregnancies. However, little research has been done on the consequences of completing an unwanted pregnancy for [...]

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Blog Carnival Announcements

First, the April Blog Carnival of Mental Health, themed self-care, is now up at Nyx’s Journal. The May carnival will be hosted at The Madosphere, on the theme of patients and professionals. Submit your post in a comment there by May 25 and check back to see the posts a while later. Second, I am [...]

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