Links, Please
Jan 12 2009 | Comments 28
This new site is hungry for links. What are some of your favorite sites about mental health? What are some of your favorite sites about health generally? Blogs? Cute animals? Please give me suggestions. I want to have a beautiful blogroll, and it’s a work in progress.
liz | 2:46 PM | Uncategorized
Health care in general (Ezra Klein), politics (fivethirtyeight.com), fun stuff (indexed)
ZenHabits.net
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/
Well you’re my fav blog for mental health issues
However when I need to get my mind off things I go to YouTube and look at something completely mindless and inane like Tillman the skateboarding bulldog:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQzUsTFqtW0
I like to go to Etsy.com and look at all the creative things on there.
well, for a good laugh and cuteness there is always icanhascheezburger! lol cats rock!
It’s not a mental health blog, per se; but some of its advice can certainly aid one in keeping sane … I nominate Unclutterer, at http://unclutterer.com/
Another couple of blogs that come to mind are The Secret Life of a Manic Depressive ( http://thesecretlifeofamanicdepressive.wordpress.com/ ), and McMan’s site ( http://www.mcmanweb.com/ ). Furious Seasons also comes to mind, but I’m guessing you’ve got that URL memorized by now
For all things Irish, at least the western part:
http://www.mayo-ireland.ie/
It’s a great, sprawling site that keeps me occupied for hours at a time.
Salted Lithium is an excellent blog written by a guy recovering from manic-depression; But You Don’t Look Sick is an awesome blog for people with illnesses/disabilities of any kind, but especially the invisible ones. Check out the Spoon Theory.
mentally interesting — great first person experience of living with mental illness out of London & furious seasons — great reporting of a wealth of mental health-related topics out of seattle
the site for this particular day is pretty warm and uplifting …http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080722.html
I have to nominate ‘a beautiful revolution’
I second Kristin’s choice of lol cat. Dont link to it, just grab the picture each day. Simple. Funny. cant get enough funny kitties. Dave
My blog! http://www.phillygrrl.com
Still a work in progress (been around a month), but working on getting some exciting content/opinion up there!
Thank you for putting mine up there Liz. You were the first hyperlink I ever added to mine. You were also the first blogger to use something I wrote when I started blogging.
For LOL= Cheezeburger cats please. Please Please.
Well, I write about disability issues, including mental health issues, among other things. The best round up though is at http://disstud.blogspot.com/
http://www.realmental.org
http://www.myschizophrenia.org/blog. My blog and web site about schizophrenia. I’m diagnosed schizoaffective, which means something in the realm of part bipolar, part schizophrenic.
Hi Liz,
My blog is primarily about writing but often touches on mental illness issues, especially writing about it.
http://alisonbergblomjohnson.blogspot.com
MySchizophrenia Blog » Blog Archive » Stumbling upon Liz Spikol’s blog Says:
[...] I had the good fortune to follow a link that landed me on Liz Spikol’s blog about her bipolar condition (”The Trouble With Spikol”). She’s in process of building her blog roll, so I found a list of suggested links, in response to her “Links Please” blog at http://trouble.pwblogs.com/2009/01/12/links-please/. [...]
I actually didn’t know what this site was about, but I googled Christopher Dye for an insane reason that my sister’s neighbors had a disorder killing of their son. For some reason, it brought up the thought of another tragic mental happening.
You are a real heroine. My family suffers from many disorders. Mine are yet to be diagnosed, but I’m certain that it will happen(hint: it’s 12am and I’m writing a stranger).
You are groovin’ tha groove.
My sis works in the mental disorder field, and she is as erudite than me.(Did I use up my big words?).
Plus I can’t discuss mental topics without…playing gameboy? Eating?
…making a smart comment so that everyone’s attention’s on ME?…drinking a beer?
About those disorders…
You are a great writer and a great activist!
I’m turning Sis onto you. And maybe ya’ll know each other already? Who knows.
Kismet.
I started a blog inspired by you, Liz. (Not sure I have the hang of trackbacking yet since I tried to comment that way first!)
Here is a link.
http://yourbipolargirl.wordpress.com/2008/12/14/versionofmyself/
–ypg
http://www.daviddemchuk.com/klam/?page_id=2
Knit Like a Man — awesome.
hey Liz, no link, but I haven’t checked the site in a while and it’s beautiful. Congrats.
I left a/this comment earlier but it got caught in your moderation file… so no hyperlinks this time.
Slap Upside The Head (slapupsidethehead.com) …an award winning anti-homophobia site.
Patient Anonymous (patientanonymous.wordpress.com) …all things psych and neuro and medicine in general.
Spin Me I Pulsate (vomitcomit.wordpress.com) …an honest and raw look at parenting and recovering from mental illness.
Migraine Chow (migrainechow.com) …an intelligent examination of manic depression.
Salted Lithium (saltedlithium.wordpress.com) …me.
My new site (I moved from Smooth Pebbles): http://scienceblogs.com/neuronculture/
My new blog:
Knowledge is Necessity
Musings on Mental Health by award-winning journalist and advocate John McManamy.
http://knowledgeisnecessity.blogspot.com
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