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Taking a Stroll Down Memory Lane
WordPress is sending me messages about a number of things lately. I’ve gotten a couple of reminders in the past couple of days of posts I’ve published on specific dates in previous years corresponding to current dates this year. The WordPress message is: Cracking open the content time capsule: Revisit your posts from such and…
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May is Mental Health Month: Which Song is My Anthem?
OK, so this post does a couple of things. One is the May is Mental Health Month, and the topic for May 30th is naming which song is your anthem. The questions posed are how does it make you feel now and is it worth putting back on your playlist. This topic is out of…
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Could Ray Bradbury Have Been Lyrical About Isolation & Ebola?
I got this fascinating comment on one of my posts, (Do We See Each Other”), I wrote last year about one of Ray Bradbury’s short stories, entitled “I See You Never.” Judy’s remark was right on target, “Sometimes fiction mirrors life too painfully.” I don’t know whether Bradbury’s short story she called “The Lighthouse” is…
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Personal Ancient History
The essay below is a blog post I wrote way back in 2010. I was a mid-career consultation-liaison psychiatrist in a university hospital. And I’d always been a writer by inclination. It was one of my first posts and after that, blogging was something I never really pulled away from. I tried to give it…
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Dr. Jim Fitness Test
I thought I would share my personal fitness test. I’m pretty regular, especially in the last couple of months since I found out I gained 20 pounds after I retired from my job as consulting psychiatrist to University of Iowa Health Care. Sena and I both exercise and we’re being careful about our diet (kale…
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May is Mental Health Month: Topic Today is Advocacy
Today’s topic for May Mental Health Month is advocacy. This could be about sharing a resource. I thought it might be OK to mention an Iowa resource for mental health, Your Life Iowa. It can be overwhelming to decide whether or not you’re ready to accept help for mental health challenges. First, you have to…
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Iowa Governor Reynolds Signs Iowa MAHA Bill Into Law Today
We watched the live-stream newscast of Iowa’s News Now video of Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signing the Iowa state version of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) bill HF 2676 into law just about an hour ago. U.S. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr was a guest and delivered a short speech in praise of…
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Talk About Talk Therapy
I saw this great blog post about psychotherapy by Dr. George Dawson a couple of days ago and it reminded me of an academic research rounds presentation made about 15 years ago by University of Iowa Health Care Dept of Psychiatry faculty member, Dr. Bruce Pfohl, MD Professor Emeritus. The title of his talk was…
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Get Up & Move!
On the calendar for Mental Health Month today is “Movement matters” so it’s all about getting off your duff and doing something physically active. It doesn’t have to be that strenuous and you can make it fun. For example, around 3 years or so ago, I picked up a set of juggling balls and taught…
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May is Mental Health Month & Today is Food Appreciation Day!
We need to cover food appreciation during this month because this Mental Health Awareness Month and it’s on the calendar for today. One of the really important subjects connected to this is to also raise awareness about frailty in older adults A recently published Australian study about frailty in seniors found that we need to…
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