Category Archives: Mental Health & Addiction
Reading Between the Lines of 9 ½ Weeks
However, as a work of fiction, it stands as exquisitely powerful storytelling of a woman [...]
May
The Stories We Need to Hear About Mental Health
May, mental health awareness month, makes me more aware than usual of the standard narrative [...]
May
Perspective Please: Bad Vegan fails to address addiction and mental health
Netflix nailed handling how the nuances of racism played out in the two-hour documentary The [...]
May
Could modern psychiatry save Sylvia Plath?
Why would a brilliant, young, beautiful woman kill herself? Heather Clark’s new biography, Red Comet: [...]
Oct
What I Got Right Now—YouTube
The more I learned about the intricacies of depression and anxiety, the more amazed I [...]
Jul
Nutrition an issue in Demi Lovato’s 2018 relapse?
Demi Lovato released the first two episodes of her YouTube docuseries “Dancing with the Devil” [...]
Apr
Book review that brought tears to my eyes
Amidst so many half-finished short stories, novels, and screenplays, publishing my novel Dream Walking in [...]
Mar
Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel adds to mental health stigma
Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel, a Netflix docuseries, is four hours long. [...]
Feb
Joy and Panic—Manuscript Almost a Book
Why are drug addiction and suicide rates increasing, particularly among young adults? The contradiction between [...]
Dec
Eavesdropping can yield ideas for stories
Maybe I love eavesdropping, because I grew up in New York City where you hear [...]
Sep