Charlee Sheen and Back A'Cha

It's impossible not to follow what's going on with Charlie Sheen.  He's talking a lot, to anyone who will listen.  A patient asked me to please blog about it, but I have to tell you.  I just don't have time.  Not right now.  And as luck would have it, a colleague did the job for me, and I trust Dr. Deb's assessment.  We don't need to reinvent the wheel.

All I might add is that if Mr. Sheen is sober for the first time, then yes, a manic episode might indeed follow, if  this is what is wrong, if he has Bi-polar Disorder.  Some people are uni-polar, you know, and this tends to refer to depression, but I have met a few unipolar manics in my life.  Not knowing his history, I can't say what Charlie has, not for sure, but what Dr. Deb says about mania is spot on.

Just because I have no time to write, doesn't mean you should suffer.  So here's an old fashioned Back A'Cha, links to people who link to me.  Or just to people I like.  If I left you out, email me.  Please.  You know I hate it when anyone's mad at me.

Dr. Deb on Charlie Sheen

Sometimes it's the visuals you need when you surf the net.

Sustainable Families Photography Blog 

And then  there's writing with feeling
This is one wild ride

And here's something cool, a place to support artists who actually throw paint on a canvas.They used to do this when people had money. 
 After the Apple:  An exhibition of women in the bible.  

What else, what else.  How about the movies?:
Good News Film Reviews
Law Movie Reviews
Jew Eat Yet?
Movie Web

Or bloggers blogging about Teev?  Online Degree

Nursing blogs:
PINKYRN
Digital Doorway
Call Bells Make Me Nervous
Emergiblog

Therapy blogs:
Blogging Behavioral
Hope Forward
Breakthrough
The Counseling Courier
Mike Langlois, LICSW
Change Therapy
20 Cool Brain Blogs 
Whereapy


Edgy blogs to make you think but definitely not for those of you who can't stand expletives or dirty pictures even to say something. The pain is in the message:
Full Fat Milk
Fugitivus
Spilt Milk
Holistic Parenting on a Dime

Surviving Blogs:
Dancing with Cancer
Life With Multiple Sclerosis and Rheumatoid Arthritis
Neurology Social Worker
I'm Just F.I.N.E.
ACOA
Dry Blog
Uppity Intellectual Crip-- (my greatest critic)
FrumStepper
OCPD--from the front lines
You Don't Have to Dance for Them
Faces of Autism

Blogs on craziness:
Inheriting the Hoard
Shades of Ivory
Cheaper Than Therapy
Daled Amos (4 Steps to Heaven)
Dr. Sanity
Random Thoughts-- (Jack, I thought you would like a change of category)
My M-I-L is Still Sitting Between Us

Education blogs:
Social Work Prep Test
Information Addict
Opposing Views
BlogHer
Junkfood Science
Relationship-Wise 
Rayna Eliana

Personal blogs:
In the Pink
In Sickness and Health
Retriever
My Secretive Garden
Erin Merryn
Canadian PostDoc
Digital Rich
Coming Out of the Trees
Jannie Funster
Elms in the Yard
Here in HP
Hilarity in Shoes
PepperLady

Feb 2009 Back A' Cha

Yet another effort to thank those who link over to me. I always forget someone, no, maybe a few, so if that's you, please let me know if you want to be added to the list.

Rather than be snarky, we're using your own words to describe your blogs, for the most part.

Except for Retriever. This is one crazy post on teaching Sunday school. Not the Sunday school I remember, that's for sure. And another about being laid off, way back when, before it was fashionable.

Pink Hollyhock is always looking at the alternatives.

White Trash Academic :
White Trash Academic
Virginia, United States
Subversive punk from white trash 'hood glancing up the ivory tower and asking, "Is this all I get for years of schooling and student loan debt?"

Subversive is such a great word.

Try Digital Doorway, who hosts Change of Shift, a nursing blog. This is how digital describes himself: A digital venue for creative expression, nursing adventures, reflections on healthcare, thoughtful reverie, thoughtless repose, and other flotsam and jetsam. See, everyone's a poet.

Midwife with a Knife (sounds so scary) has been in San Diego for a conference. Did you ever stop to think: What if all conferences were in San Diego or Hawaii, maybe?
I didn't think so. And what do they call a guy who is a midwife?
Here's how she defines herself: The life and times of a young old-fashioned obstetrician. This isn't a medical blog, per se, but more about me and my life (which, admittedly, are mostly medical), but if you need medical advice, please see an actual doctor in person. Any resemblence of anything in this blog to actual patients is entirely coincidental.

It always is, has to be.

Healthbolt.net posted a video on sex and science, it doesn't get much better. Mary Roach wrote a book about sex research: Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex.
So Healthbot is gutsy.

Esser Agaroth is Hebrew for two cents, maybe My Two Cents would be the English equivalent.

The Social Work Blog Prep Test
isn't really a test. The tag line is: Help getting through the social work exam prep gauntlet. Whatever it takes, people. You won't get nearly enough of that here.

My pal, Ilana Davita is showing off photography on her blog, always worth the trip.

And NEVER FORGET The Second Road! I completely forgot to tell you about my last couple of posts over there, too, which is really ashame, because they weren't half bad!

One on the FOURTH STEP, in particular, but we're going to be going over that stuff, soon, so you should know something about it.

Leora over there at HP is a multi-media artist, also a rewarding visit.

Crackers and Juice is all about recovery from child abuse, simply maddening.

And The New Social Worker Online Blogmakes some of us old ones a little nostalgic for just the word, new. The New Social Worker is the quarterly magazine for social work students and recent graduates, focusing on social work careers for those new to the profession. This blog is a companion to the free online magazine at http://www.socialworker.com.

A Mother In Israel, news from around the Jewish blogosphere (but you know, you don't have to be Jewish, just mho.)

Ways to Survive Life, no pretenses, says what it is.

Expanding Life blogs on family matters.

My friend at Mori Therapy, making life better, making better lives, has a great tag line, don't you think? She posted on eating disorders, mentioned my theory on naps.

And Author Mom with Dogs is getting scraps awards. How cool is this?

Magen writes random thoughts about random things, which is a great use of a blogger's keyboard, if you ask me.

Whereas Nashbabe has random but deliberate ruminations, and isn't feeling so good, so stop by and cheer her up.

A true super brain, Neuroanthropology makes me feel a little light, but that's good, isn't it? Expand the brain over there.

Therapy Worksheets gives you a little something for the money: Psychotherapy worksheets of all kinds--depression, anxiety, anger management, stress reduction, self-esteem, groups, individuals, couples, adults, teens, children, CBT, DBT, ACT, PTSD, OCD, BPD...and more. It's amazing, check it out.

Literature Should Mean Something in Your Life is precisely that. Things and people are disappearing. Go find them.

My friend Syd, at I'm just F.I.N.E.-- is all about recovery in Al-Anon:
Telling what it's like to work on recovering from the affects of alcoholism

And Angela is STILL The Amazing Adventure.

Isle Dance, The Rebbetzin's Husband, and again, if I forgot you, please write and let me know.

Until next time,

That's it for now!

Back a' cha May 2008

I'm a little rusty at this and apologize in advance if I forgot anybody. Please forgive me if that happened and shoot me an email. And try not to be too angry, okay?

And if you've ever felt insulted in any way in the comments, believe me, it's not intentional. Ever.

The Back 'a cha' is the place I traditionally link back to the bloggers who link to me. Sometimes you get on the sidebar with a hyperlink, but that sort of thing takes a lot of time away from the things we should really be doing in life.

Like the stuff some people remind themselves about soon after they wake up, before that first hot cup (the old Eastern European way of saying hot water, tea, or coffee):

honoring parents (seriously), doing acts of kindness (why not?), welcoming visitors, visiting the sick, escorting the dead, prayer, learning, establishing peace among people. That sort of thing.

Don't click off now, I'm just getting going. People really do this.

Linking to other bloggers has to be in there somewhere. So allow me to direct you to several stellar individuals, people who waste less, more, or as much time as I do in this idleness:

First, there's Beyond Blue, who shares her personal journey and was kind enough to tell her readers, Check out that CNN article about blogging and group therapy!

Pink Hollyhock bemoans the lack of hats (great pictures here, if you happen to like hats). Check her post on high tea.

Eclectic blog is a nice personal blog and she's got a baby, always a draw.

Letters from Exile is catching up on her sleep. (Well, she was when I started this post, a few weeks ago)

I found Blog Rhetorica on Technorati (where I drop 50,000 points a day, lately, so officially, I don't care or like them anymore and am dropping them from my fave 5, whatever that is).

Add an "a" at the end of most things good or bad and they are better. Try it. Fantastic becomes fantastica. Horrible, horribla. Tremendous, tremendousa. We could go on all night.

Emeritus, at Parallel Universe (very cool pics), is a physician and hosts the Change of Shift blog carnival for nurses, which is nice.

We have to spend big bucks to visit islands, but Isle Dance lives on one.

Moonmaid's baby's kicking. (These are the kinds of things I take away from posts) B'shaah tovah (it should be in the right hour).

And Psychologyistics actually reprinted the CNN article, which is cool. At first, when I saw it, I thought Anna Jane Grossman, the journalist, had her own blog. So if you go there and think my comment makes no sense, that's why.

Jirel is always being positive, over at positive and successful, so if you prefer negativity, pass.

And they chose me as the top post at this carnival, You Finish Rich.
As we say, from your mouth, to His ears.

If you know French, this is great. Franck, writes about the CNN article in French. I'm not really sure what it says, unfortunately, but I said thanks anyway.

Which brings me to the Japanese translation I threw into the Jerry Springer post. I had copied the translation from a Google link, posted it, and Pam, a blogger who translates Japanese for a living , pointed out that what I had copied was actually a request for blog posts, not the translation of Treasure every encounter. . . She sent me the correct Japanese. Thanks Pam!

Maybe it's because I get all excited about hobbies and music, but this blogger has found 50 places to take music lessons on-line. So if you're interested in giving guys named David a run for their money next year on American Idol, check it out.

The best are you wonderful people protecting me from cougars (the naturally furry ones, not the older women hitting on younger men). Angie and April, at A Great Leap in the Dark, thanks.

Speaking of cats.

And Kabbage has dogs.

Educators visit here, and I visit there, and occasionally post at their carnivals. Here's a really good one.

Mazal tov to budding professionals who graduated this year.
We have a news anchor! News Anchor Mom, thanks!
And therapists of all kinds, TherExtras, for example, tres intelligent.

Dr. Deb is AMAZING, always, a virtual illusion.

And check into The Pasadena Therapist, lest we forget California. I'll be there soon.

Try this new one, Psych 101, as long as you're tweaking your mental health.

And Jeanie in Paradise (How do you get there Jeanie?)

More on pets, The Modulator

We let lawyers into our party but they have to be on our side.

We can't forget Jack, constantly singing happy birthday to Israel. Thanks, Jack for keeping up the mo, and MomInIsrael, too, and Leora. Not to mention Conservadox, Ilanadavita. On the other hand, let's mention her :)

Of course, I love bloggers into recovery

And the young bloggers make me happy, for sure.

Talk about making lemonade out of lemon juice, or is that lemon juice out of lemons, make mine pie, Joyful Seeker's spouse asserted and bam! the boss gives him a better job.

And I love the happiness going around in The Life and Times of Sancho Knotwise. Two months until the wedding and they don't seem worried at all!

It was a good month. For the most part.

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