What Goes on in the Head...
“The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends.
If they're okay,then it's you.”
Rita Mae Brown
“For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.”
Jean Dubuffet
"When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained."
Mark Twain
“The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.”
Bruce Feirstein
"You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Mental Health
Understanding Mental Illness
Women and Depression
How is Your Self Esteem?
Teen Depression
Beat Depression Without Drugs
Anxiety Disorders
Depression and Fatigue
Bipolar Disorder
Schizophrenia
60 Tips for Helping People who have Schizophrenia
Women and Psychosis
Understanding PMS
If You are Considering Divorce
The Single Mothers Resource
Understanding Stress
Nutrition for Mental Health
Natural Treatment for ADD
Eating Disorders
Body Image
Forum: I feel like I'm Going Crazy
Postpartum Depression
Gender and Women's Mental Health
People Can Recover From Mental Illness
Understanding Manic Depression
Understanding the Grieving Process.
Goal Setting Mind Tools
But other people sure can be weird.
Click the blue links for insight on understanding ourselves and others.
Check the goal setting link at the bottom, for instructions on how to become the woman you want to be.
Take care of yourself.
Use resources that are available to you.
The Single Woman's Guide to Mental Health...
over a third of people in most countries
report sufficient criteria at some point in their life.
The great women of history had a few things very much in common with many young women today, a high incidence of disordered eating, depression, and physical ills such as headache and insomnia. Body-image problems.
Writers Emily Bronte, Elizabeth Browning, and Virginia Woolf, for example, were deemed by their biographers to have been anorexic. Charlotte Bronte and Emily Dickinson exhibited disordered eating.
Research carried out at the National Empowerment Center has shown that people can fully recover from even the most severe forms of mental illness.