At the International Conference on the Use of the Internet in Mental Health in Montreal earlier …

Sharon Begley, author of “Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain” explains how training your thoughts actually changes the hard matter of your brain. She writes, “Something as seemingly insubstantial as a thought can affect the very stuff of the brain, altering neuronal connections in a way that can treat mental illness, or perhaps, lead to a greater capacity for empathy and compassion. It may even dial up the supposedly immovable happiness set point.”

In this video I demonstrate, as usual.

Click through to watch the video.

I hope that, once and for all, the message is clear — someone who has a mental illness is at no greater risk for violent …

One of the challenges faced by people who have a mental illness — such as depression, bipolar …

“We’ve been there. We know what it’s like.”

– DBSA President Peter Ashenden on one of the organization’s most crucial weapons for combating mental health stigma and misinformation.

In addition to currently serving as the president of the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA), Peter Ashenden is a dynamic keynote speaker, a member of several mental health boards and committees, and acted as both a commissioner of the Certification Commission of the United States Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association (USPRA) and the executive director for the Mental Health Empowerment Project (MHEP).

Simply put, Ashenden is quite the force to be reckoned with in the mental health education and advocacy world and, as cliché as it sounds, I pretty much felt like I was in the presence of greatness when I was able to speak with him last month about the DBSA’s involvement with Blueprint for Hope, the recently launched campaign the DBSA, ABC’s Paige Hemmis, and the University of Louisville’s Dr. Jesse H. Wright hope will help people develop their own “blueprints” for treating and managing depression.

Felicia Sullivan is a self-described “author, foodie, rockstar” and she writes regularly on a wide variety …

Today I have the pleasure of interviewing one of my favorite psychiatrists, Dr. Ron Pies. Dr. Pies …

Did you know that television, much like books before it, is often …

Although it may be pretty obvious that allowing a user to customize …

“How are you?” asked one of my co-workers as I walked into the office this morning.

“Oh,” I said, “I’m exhausted. How are you?”

And …

There are some scientists who are becoming increasingly concerned about the negative effects of long-term, widespread computer usage, brought about primarily by the rise of …

As a person starts upon his or her road in recovery from a mental …