This is a site that seeks to explore different mental health issues as it pertains to psych nurses or their patients.  These are issues that I do not think get explored in any traditional format so I will do it here. I am a psych nurse currently working.  I doRead More →

May is Mental Health Awareness month.  It does not normally get too much attention.  But this year I am trying to draw attention to it.  I am making a mental health awareness day at my church in Fort Myers called Mayday 2016. People need to know that mental health isRead More →

The recent tragedy in Louisiana only underscores for me the problems with mental health in our country.  John Houser stood up in a crowded movie theater and shot 11 people with a legally obtained handgun.  Two women died from being in the wrong place at the wrong time, 9 haveRead More →

I feel I need to comment on tragedy in Charleston not because it was a mental health issue but precisely because it is not.  People are going to try to state that this is one person who was mentally ill who did this act and not the manifestation of racismRead More →