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Downgraded

Aug 23 2007 | Comments 2

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I keep getting headlines about hurricane Dean in my email in-box because of Google news alerts: “Dean Downgraded to Tropical Depression,” for instance. And I was thinking, wouldn’t it be great if the meteorological powers that be could do that for my mental health status? The headlines would read, “Spikol Downgraded to Temporary Depression; Danger Over by Wednesday.” Then I’d know I could be back at work in a couple days and I wouldn’t have to panic over whether my mental house would have its roof blown off.

liz | 10:22 AM | Uncategorized

Masale.Wallah Says:

Everytime I search for depression related news, specially from India, I get a similar bunch of articles about some depression in the Indian Ocean or the Bay of Bengal. It seems sometimes that that’s the only kind of depression people there care about or I guess, want to talk about.

Aug 23 11:55 AM

Kristin Bell Says:

Heh. Liz, you crack me up. Even when you are depressed you are witty and fun. k.

Aug 23 12:41 PM

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Liz Spikol was born in Philadelphia sometime in the 20th century. She started writing about her experience as a person with mental illness in 1999, while employed at Philadelphia Weekly as the paper’s managing editor. Aside from serving as that paper’s web editor, music editor, staff writer, senior editor, executive editor and a host of other random roles that she couldn’t make up her mind about, she has also worked as a Spanish teacher, as a Certified Peer Specialist during Philly’s system-wide transformation and as a communications specialist for a prison reform organization. Currently, she works at the Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania and writes book reviews for PW. This blog — named one of the Top 10 Bipolar Blogs of 2007 and 2008 by PsychCentral — is about medications, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, OCD, PTSD, SAD (and many other acronyms), mad pride, Big Pharma, celebrities, hospitals, stigma and the recovery movement. And other stuff.

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