DR. PATRICIA A. FARRELL

My latest book, A Mind on Fire: Questioning Madness, Medicine and Life, is now in ebook format on Amazon (soon to be additional sites)...

A small book with big solutions to a common problem in today's workplace. Simple examples that will aid you in your self-help techniques...

Valentine's Day is fast approaching and visions of chocolates, satin hearts, Frederick's of Hollywood outfits and special trips or...

The blackboard was always a symbol of fear to me as a child in a Catholic grammar school. Boys who ventured with great trepidation to the...

"I'm bored!" The cry goes out in a thousand homes, innumerable offices and even at social events. It is the bête noire of the 21st...

History will be unkind, deservedly so, to America and the Trump administration when it comes time to dissect the full details of the...

Have you ever felt lonely? Do you recall why you felt that way and how you dealt with it? Was it a question of seeking out mental health...

Religions, no matter which one anyone maintains an affiliation, promote, as one of their basic tenets, giving charity to those in need....

Film is something I learned to adore as a child rushing with my friends to the Saturday matinee for kids at one of the five local...

Bullies, we would suppose with confidence, are not what we want our children to be and yet we hear, too often, that bullies have...

Cremes, fillers, injections of poisons, skin sanding, and collagen-enhancing machines are just a few of the things the multi-billion...

Education for kids, including a discussion of reproduction, is always a topic of interest to educators, parents, mental health...

A new year is almost upon us and, once again, people will be making resolutions they won't keep more than a few weeks. The hopes are...

Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, and George Harrison, aka The Beatles, have recorded a new hit song with a man who has been dead for 15...

Privacy in all matters related to patients has been the watchword of healthcare. Laws to protect this information and your rights as a...

Hospitals are on a desperate run to improve their bottom lines as they compete with the ever-encroaching medical "shops" being opened by...

Adam Lanza Mass killings with weapons meant for combat have raised our level of awareness, once again, that not only do we need to...

The assumptions that are made by too many people who, perhaps unwittingly, assume that advanced age means diminished mental capacity, is...

States have certain requirements for maintaining professional licenses and the laws, similarly, have requirements about reporting either...

A single rose withstood the freeze