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Psycho Donuts: Q'est-ce que c'est?
via The Trouble with Spikol. There’s a donut shop in Northern California that uses mental illness and an insane asylum as it’s theme. Here’s a sampling of news stories from Fox News, AOL,… more →
Knitting Clio
Psycho Donuts: Q'est-ce que c'est?
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hmprescott wrote 3 months ago: via The Trouble with Spikol. There’s a donut shop in Northern California that uses mental illness an … more →
Lizzie Simon at CCSU: Stigma Busting Par Excellence
hmprescott wrote 9 months ago: Wednesday night I had the pleasure of attending a talk by Lizzie Simon author of Detour: My Bipolar … more →
New Article on "Virginia Tech Massacre"
hmprescott wrote 9 months ago: Just received the latest issue of the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth. It contains an … more →
Heath Ledger and Bipolar Disorder
hmprescott wrote 1 year ago: In yet another shameless effort to boost my blog stats, here’s a comment on Trouble With Spiko … more →
Rethinking the Drinking Age: a historical perspective
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hmprescott wrote 1 year ago: Once again, Historiann has beat me in posting on a hot political topic — the Amethyst Initiati … more →
Nostalgia Time: Bob Newhart and Mental Illness
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hmprescott wrote 1 year ago: This past Sunday, I took a break from Olympics coverage to watch the excellent PBS American Masters … more →
MentalHealthEdu
hmprescott wrote 1 year ago: I just completed the training module for MentalHealthEdu, an online program to raise awareness about … more →
Help Support Housing for Mentally Ill Persons
hmprescott wrote 1 year ago: Courtesy of NAMI National: HR 5772 Proposes Innovative Section 811 Demonstration Program and Include … more →
Sad Anniversary
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hmprescott wrote 1 year ago: Today is the one year anniversary of the murder-suicide at Virginia Tech, so I thought I’d wri … more →
Disability History in the News
hmprescott wrote 1 year ago: It’s been a busy week here at the University, so I haven’t had much time to do more than … more →
Another Campus Shooting
hmprescott wrote 1 year ago: I had hoped to blog about something else today, but felt it necessary to comment on this news report … more →
More on AHA Panel, School Violence, and Youth Suicide
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hmprescott wrote 1 year ago: Now that I have all my fellow panelists’ papers, I can get a better sense of what I want/need … more →
American Historical Association Panel
hmprescott wrote 2 years ago: Last week I received a draft from my co-panelist Steve Mintz for a session at the annual meeting of … more →
Student Suicide Attempt at CCSU
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hmprescott wrote 2 years ago: Yesterday, a first-year student allegedly attempted to take her own life by jumping off one of the p … more →
Gig at AHAP
hmprescott wrote 2 years ago: Just returned yesterday from a trip to Akron, Ohio to give a talk at the Archives of the History of … more →
Cheiron/ESHHS Annual Meeting, University College Dublin
hmprescott wrote 2 years ago: I just returned from the joint meeting of Cheiron and the European Society for the History of Human … more →
HNN News article on Virginia Tech
hmprescott wrote 2 years ago: Last week, I published an op ed piece on the Virigina Tech shootings, “Mental Health is Everyo … more →
