by Monica A. Coleman | Oct 15, 2011 | Blog, Media, Monica's Blog, The Beautiful Mind Blog
Writer and mental health advocate Therese Borchard interviewed me and it made it to the Huffington Post. Check it out. According to Raymond DePaulo, Jr. M.D., Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, African-American populations do not...
by Monica A. Coleman | Oct 9, 2011 | Blog, Monica's Blog, The Beautiful Mind Blog
When I was a teenager, I liked a boy who attempted suicide. I remember calling his home on an ordinary day. His mother answered the phone and told me a harrowing story of how she came home, and found his tall lanky body in the bathtub with blood spilling into the...
by Monica A. Coleman | Oct 4, 2011 | Monica's Blog, The Beautiful Mind Blog
I know that men wrote the Bible. That’s no surprise to anyone who has had a brush with feminism or biblical scholarship. But there are times when one is more aware of this than at other times. As I mourn the loss of my miscarried babies, I think of how the Bible...
by Monica A. Coleman | Sep 26, 2011 | Blog, Monica's Blog, The Beautiful Mind Blog
I wanted to be pregnant if only for the possibility of helpful hormones. “Pregnancy is great for some women with depression,” my psychiatrist says. “The hormones can help.” I think of my women friends with depression who tell me that pregnancy nearly killed them. That...
by Monica A. Coleman | Sep 19, 2011 | Blog, Monica's Blog, The Beautiful Mind Blog
I grew up in a state of unionized workers. My mother was in a teachers’ union. My father worked for one of the “Big Three” automakers and UAW is an acronym every Michigander knows. Every year, there were talks of negotiations and talks of strikes. The only thing worse...