Let’s talk for a few minutes about gender and mental illness. I don’t want to get into statistics regarding how many men versus women have various mental illnesses. But I do want to briefly discuss how men and women handle having a mental illness.
Sketches: Writing
Do you ever feel compelled to do something but just don’t have the time to do it? Like a good compelled, not OCD compulsion compelled. Although with so much focus on OCD, sometimes it can be hard to make a distinction. Can there be good compulsions? Discuss amongst yourselves, I don’t have time for that…
Everyday Thursday
It’s easy to be all talk. I mean, don’t you think? It’s so much easier to just say what you should do rather than actually buckling down and doing it, right? So, you’ll be happy to know that I’m not all talk. I actually sat down last week with two pieces of paper and wrote some…
Scripture Snapshot: “The Righteous Judge” by Elder Lynn G. Robbins
Do you ever read the General Conference talks in the Ensign after Conference and think, “I don’t remember this talk at all when I was listening back in October (or April)! How did I miss this one? I swear I watched all of Conference.” I feel like this happens more now that I have kids…
The way we talk about mental illness
I feel like I’m beginning to sound like a broken record, bringing up over and over again the topic of “how we talk about mental illness” and why it matters. But let’s be honest: a record with a scratch isn’t actually broken, it just has a scratch that affects how it plays. If you go over…