Archive for the 'mental health' Category
Staff ignores dying patient at Cherry Hospital
posted: August 19, 2008 | category: mental health
tags: mental health "reform"
Reading about the death of Steven Sabock, a patient at Cherry Hospital, a state-funded psychiatric hospital in Goldsboro, N.C., leaves me nauseated, disgusted, outraged and heartbroken:
“…The hospital’s security video recorded Sabock’s care from April 28, when he choked on his medicine while a nurse stood by without helping him, and through his day without food […]
The “worthy” homeless
posted: July 16, 2008 | category: homelessness, mental health, substance abuse
tags: alcohol, crack cocaine, panhandling
A few days ago, I wrote a post in response to a News & Record story about Mark Hoffman, a mentally ill homeless man who used to sit on a bench near a church in Greensboro, but now sits on a bench by a church in Catonsville, Maryland — his hometown.
Here’s what Sam Spagnola wrote […]
ok, so this…
posted: July 9, 2008 | category: faith, mental health
tags: depression, music
“…I needed something to hang onto, something that would speak to the very depths of my soul in a way that I understood, in a way that my woundedness would accept. It wasn’t a bible verse, it wasn’t a sacred hymn, it wasn’t a sermon or a worship song or anything you might expect it […]
Read More..>>sometimes to keep it together, you got to leave it alone
posted: July 2, 2008 | category: mental health, substance abuse
tags: alcohol, crack cocaine, lyrics, music
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Is your life affected by someone else’s drinking, drugging or mental illness? To help them, you have to help yourself first.
» Al-Anon / Alateen
» Al-Anon / Alateen of Greensboro & High Point
» Mental Health Association in Greensboro
Functioning with dysfunction
posted: May 29, 2008 | category: mental health
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My blogfriend Anna writes about her struggles with executive functioning, which in her case is a by-product of Asperger’s Syndrome. And I so get it. I also have executive dysfunction, related to my “adult ADD.”
“According to Dr. Thomas E. Brown of the Yale University School of Medicine, ‘ADHD is essentially a name for […]
Integrating faith & science in serving the chronically addicted
posted: April 9, 2008 | category: faith, homelessness, mental health, substance abuse
tags: events, info
INTEGRATING FAITH & SCIENCE IN SERVING THE CHRONICALLY ADDICTED
When: Sat., April 19th, 9:00 am-1:00pm
Where: Grace Community Church
For those who do outreach with chronically homeless and chronically addicted people — focusing on the science of addiction and how to integrate science and faith as we love and serve people with substance abuse disorders.
With Paul Nagy from […]
“Painting a Moving Train:” Working with veterans of Iraq & Afghanistan
posted: April 8, 2008 | category: mental health, substance abuse
tags: events, veterans
“Painting a Moving Train”
Working with Veterans Of Iraq and Afghanistan and their families
May 2, 2008, Greensboro NC
About 30% of the US military serving in Iraq or Afghanistan are National Guard and Reservists with limited access to Veterans Administration resources.
Over 20% of active duty and more than 40% of reserve soldiers are identified as requiring […]
This is what it looks like
posted: March 19, 2008 | category: community, faith, homelessness, mental health, substance abuse
tags: homeless news, housing, policy
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“It is the mission of Dorothy’s Place to live, to love, and to work in harmony; to serve the marginalized, to create partnerships that are mutually liberating, and to pursue social justice with respect and dignity for all, in the spirit of St. Francis and Dorothy Day.”
– web site
Thanks, Audrie.
I hate addiction
posted: March 18, 2008 | category: faith, homelessness, mental health, substance abuse
tags: crack cocaine, stories
For you and you and you and…
If I could, I would take you someplace safe, and lock the gates against the world, and cook you good food, and let you rest, and laugh with you and cry with you, and read His Words to you about who you really are, and sit with you and […]
Housing ends homelessness, but then what?
posted: March 10, 2008 | category: homelessness, mental health, substance abuse
tags: housing, stories
Giving homeless people housing ends homelessness, but it’s just the beginning of the answer to the crisis of homelessness, because homelessness is not the real problem, it’s just a symptom of the problems that land people on the street.
Recently, a number of my chronically homeless friends have moved from homelessness to housing, and that hasn’t […]
