Mental Health Blog
Sharing optimistic news about serious mental health concerns such as schizophrenia, major depression, bipolar disorder, and OCD.
S2EP15: Transform Zoom Fatigue and Energize Your Community with this Assessment Tool
Almost over night, most of us have joined both pop-up and professional online communities during this COVID-19 global pandemic. We thrive in community, because humans are meant to live and work in close relationship with others. But what happens when these virtual...
S2EP14: COVID-19 and Trauma Resilience Strategies with Katie Mansfield
This special episode is part of our Mental Horizons podcast series responding to the COVID-19 pandemic and how it is impacting the world and, more specifically, the mental health field. Stephanie spoke with Katie Mansfield about trauma resilience in the face of...
S2E13: How To Deliver Mental Health Support Remotely with Brad Richards
Brad Richards, psychiatric interventionist, returns to the podcast to share tips around how therapists and medical professionals can best deliver support through online and remote means. In this time of crisis, tele-health is scaling up rapidly, breaking down barriers...
S2E12: Life After COVID-19: What Organizations Need to Do Next
Virgil is joined on the podcast by Brian Hansen, executive director of Spring Lake Ranch. Brian is uniquely qualified to comment on what it takes for organizations and individuals to recover from a crisis or disaster. In this episode, he shared that while...
S2E11: Social Connectedness During a Global Crisis with Ross Ellenhorn, PhD
In a second conversation in this special series about COVID-19 and how it is impacting the mental health treatment field, Virgil spoke with Ross Ellenhorn, PhD, founder of Ellenhorn, a program based in Boston, NYC, and North Carolina. Their conversation opens with...
S2E10: COVID-19 and Residential Treatment Programs – a brief, special episode with Eric Levine, EdD
Virgil spoke with Eric Levine, EdD, Executive Director of CooperRiis Healing Community in North Carolina, about how residential treatment programs can best respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. In this short, special episode Eric talks about the importance of leaders...
Creating Community Amidst COVID-19 Fears and Anxieties
Dear friends, My sense is that the impact of COVID-19 on the mental health community, families and professionals is profound. While I am not an expert on the coronavirus, I do know about the power of community. Keeping our distance from one another and from the virus...
Mental Horizons is going to SXSW!
Our podcast, Mental Horizons, will record a live show on the podcast stage at the SXSW (South by Southwest) Festival on March 17, 2020 in Austin, Texas. The invitation to participate in this event came this month and was a total surprise! We started the podcast a year...
S2E9: Benedict Carey, NYTimes Science and Medical Writer, is Optimistic About Mental Health Recovery
Episode 8 of Season 2 of the Mental Horizons Podcast is with Benedict Carey, science and medical writer for the New York Times. Ben has been a science writer since his first job out of journalism school in 1987, writing for the San Francisco-based medical science...