Holidays and mental illness

The holidays are here upon us. It is a time of cheer for many of us. But it can be a time of stress for those of us with mental illness. I thought I would offer some tips to get along with those with mental illness during the holiday season.
1) Don’t talk down to them. [...]

Mental illness and humor

I was at a Toastmasters Conference a short time ago. It was for a Humorous Speech Contest. There was this contestant who made a speech about his mother was had a mental illness. The audience laughed through out the speech.
I was highly offended. I felt this speech was in bad taste and very inapproapriate for [...]