The Mental Emotional Health Blog

Well, I have no idea why I got thinking about this subject. But since I was stuck thinking about it, all of my wonderful readers have to endure it too. Thanks for stopping by.

Pick-up lines that probably won’t work:

• If you could just read my mind and see how focused I am on you, you would just, um, let’s see . . . anyway, how are you?
• I’m like a fresh pastry: warm and flaky.
• I’m like a snowmobile: I only go out for part of the year, but I’m usually a lot of fun unless there’s barbed wire.
• I am not like a change machine. What, doesn’t that make cents to you?
• How about I call you next month? I’m just out of minutes right now. Actually, make it three months; I have to start paying off some debt.
• Hi, you’re cute. Let’s get away together, and it’s not like anyone is going to get abducted or anything like that. There won’t be anyone else with us, I don’t think.
• Hey, with all the government bailouts lately, how about you bail me out of my loneliness?
• (When flirting online) I have a face for radio, a voice for newspaper, and a personality for internet anonymity.

 Happy New Year everyone!

Happy Holidays to all of you celebrating them. I am glad the days are starting to get longer now that the Winter Solstice has passed. Just the thought of that helps a little each time I go out to shovel snow.

Here’s a thought I had this morning, and I don’t know if I’ve heard or read it before: Don’t just work at something, work through it.

I read up on a possible link between dehydration and headaches recently and want to list this interesting article. It provides some good reasons to stay hydrated. The link is: http://nutrition.about.com/od/hydrationwater/a/Water_headaches.htm 

Have a great weekend everyone!

Here are some interesting quotes I have found lately:

“You can never know everything, and part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps even the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of courage lies in going on anyway.” - Robert Jordan

“If you can’t be a good example, then you’ll just have to be a horrible warning.” - Catherine Aird

“Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.” - Thomas Merton

“Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.” - Euripides

“Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.” - Baroness Edith Summerskill

“Some people don’t know how to just accept a miracle.” - Kimberly Willis Holt

Hi everyone. One of the links on my blogroll on the right side of the page is to the BBC Headroom. I have found it to be a good source of information related to mental health, and a neat place to “Unwind Your Mind”. Since I am in the United States, I have not been able to open or view the video clips they present on the site. But hopefully the rest of you around the world can. An area I particularly liked was the Mood Spa, which presents some quick questionnaires to help you assess your current moods and/or patterns. The website link is  http://www.bbc.co.uk/headroom/ .

Check it out and let me know what you think!

Take care,

Devin

First, thank you to all of my readers. If you look at the Clustrmap on the right side of the page, you’ll notice people from all over the world have been checking out MentalEmotionalHealth.com . For that, I am very appreciative.

A few posts ago, I threw out the idea of starting a discussion board. So my questions to all of you are: 1) Would you like to see a discussion board on this site?  2) If so, what kind of topics or questions would you be interested in?

I recognize that I don’t have all the answers about wellness (who does?), so I think it would be informative and enjoyable to share ideas and questions with each other. It would also be an easy way to promote your own website and blogs too.

Let me know what you think, and have a great day everyone!