by Ashley | Jan 19, 2018 | Entertainment, Mental Health
Another not completely uncommon mental health difficulty faced by some phenomenal composers is obsessive-compulsive disorder. One such individual was a nineteenth century Austrian composer. As an organist, his father was his first music teacher, although he died when...
by Adrian Drew | Jan 15, 2018 | Lifestyle and Culture, Mental Health
By Adrian Drew, writer and founder of Yugen, a minimalistic blog and advice service about mental health and self-improvement. Meditation has gained an enormous amount of publicity in the 21st century, yet still, very few people actually practice it. For such a simple...
by Ashley | Jan 12, 2018 | Entertainment, Mental Health
Addiction is a difficult aspect of mental health, for those who are addicts and also for those who care about them. It may be even more difficult when the substance one is addicted to is socially acceptable: here is where we find alcohol. Many brilliant people may...
by Carmelo Valone | Dec 19, 2017 | Mental Health
“We read to know we’re not alone,” says the writer CS Lewis, played by Anthony Hopkins. And according to Cinema therapy expert Bernie Wooder, the same can be said for watching films as a much deeper form of the therapeutic process of healing from just about any...
by Carmelo Valone | Dec 7, 2017 | Entertainment, Mental Health
Ummm…. What do you mean it’s not just for tragic poets anymore? What about the greats though: Sylvia Plath, Hart Crane, Reinaldo Arenas? In other words, writing can be that cathartic release that we might yearn for when we simply can’t or don’t want to say it aloud. I...
by Dave Leon | Oct 10, 2016 | Lifestyle and Culture, Mental Health
In response to the recent post on Alternet, “7 Reasons America’s Mental Health Industry is a Threat to Our Sanity” by Bruce Levine, I’d like to offer an alternative point of view: Our mental health system acts as if it is treating an anxiety disorder...
