Patricia Farrell

Forgetting Is Our Brain’s Pathway to Maintaining Natural Mental Health

Fear of memory neurologic disorders such as Alzheimer’s Disease can become an obsession with each little momentary bit of forgetting, a major…

5 years ago

Climate Change Has an Underbelly Few Are Considering

I was fortunate enough to attend a session by Robert Frost many years ago in Lennox, MA, where he read…

5 years ago

War Leaves a Tormenting Stain on Children’s Minds and Forges Life Changes?

Air raid sirens are not a normal part of childhood, and this frightening sound will always remain with any child…

5 years ago

Police Unreasonable Fear May Be Deadlier Than Racism

The media, seemingly, doesn’t have a day when there isn’t one or more shocking articles about incidents of inappropriate police actions. Too…

5 years ago

Senseless Murder Mandates Prison or a Psychiatric Hospital Admission?

Mental illness presents us with many challenges in diagnosis and effective treatment. But the most serious of these issues surround…

5 years ago

Kindness Is Incredibly Good for Your Health

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate. —…

5 years ago

Inadequate or Unqualified Therapy Because of Low Medicaid Reimbursement?

Reimbursement rates shouldn’t determine whether or not someone receives adequate treatment for anything, including mental health therapy. But, too often,…

5 years ago

Self-indulgent Are Scamming the System with “Emotional Support” Animals

The smiling older woman proceeded to briskly walk through the automatic doors of the pharmacy, her tiny dog wearing a…

5 years ago

Suffer the Little Children and Forget Covid Vaccines — for Now

Covid-19 has proven to be a formidable virus for kids and adults, according to the AAP, killing close to one million…

5 years ago

“Deaf” Physicians’ Failure to Listen to Seriously Ill Patients

Too often, women’s medical concerns face a healthcare bias; lack of belief. When this happens, as in a recent case of…

5 years ago

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