Learning from Those Who Hear Voices.
When we learn that someone hears voices, we may assume that this person must be “crazy.” Some people who hear voices have a diagnosis of schizophrenia....
Your Six-Foot Radius.
I don't think I was that mouthy during my medical training. Some East Asian women are shy, deferential, and taciturn. It’s no wonder some people were...
A Pope's Death.
If he views attention as a zero-sum game, then, today, he lost. To a dead man, no less—a man who did not even rule over a state. He was just a pope. But he’s...
Geriatric Homelessness and Medicaid.
I submitted the following as an op-ed essay, though neither local publication accepted it. (I understand: Many people have many opinions about all the...
Standing Up.
Five years ago I was working as the medical director at the largest homelessness services agency in Seattle. My dad, who skimmed headlines from major...
The Word “Mental” in Project 2025. (iii)
Just to formally close out the series on Project 2025 and its intersections with mental health, let me comment on the third instance where “mental” shows up...
Observations from the Trump-Zelensky Meeting.
For your consideration, here are a few observations about the Trump-Vance-Zelensky argument in the Oval Office today from a psychiatrist: Vice President...
Obituary for Yang the Elder.
Yang the Elder died at the age of 77 on February 8th, 2025. He would not approve of this obituary. Mourning his death are his two older brothers, but his...
The Word “Mental” in Project 2025. (xiv + xv + xvi)
Guys, we’re getting to the end of this project! We’ve made it to the last three instances (14, 15, and 16) of the word “mental” in Project 2025. (I still...
The Word “Mental” in Project 2025. (xii)
The twelfth (and thirteenth) instance of the word “mental” in Project 2025 is on page 876, still in the section about the Federal Trade Commission: Other...
The Word “Mental” in Project 2025. (ix + x + xi)
The ninth, tenth, and eleventh instances of the word “mental” in Project 2025 are on page 875 in the section about the Federal Trade Commission: Protecting...
The Word “Mental” in Project 2025. (viii)
The eighth instance of the word “mental” in Project 2025 is on page 648 in the section about the Veterans Health Administration: Examine the surpluses or...
The Word “Mental” in Project 2025. (vi + vii)
The sixth instance of the word “mental” is on page 509 in the section about “First-Day and First-Year Administrative Reforms” for The Department of Housing...
The Word “Mental” in Project 2025. (v)
The fifth instance of the word “mental” in Project 2025 is on page 518 in the section about the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA): Withdraw...
The Word “Mental” in Project 2025. (iv)
(I am skipping over the third instance of the word “mental” in Project 2025 for now. There are two reasons for this: First, the quote is “mental or...
The Word “Mental” in Project 2025. (ii)
The second instance of the word “mental” in Project 2025 is on page 6, just a few paragraphs after its first appearance in the foreword: This resolve [“Every...
The Word "Mental" in Project 2025. (i)
The word “mental” appears 16 times in “Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise”, better known as Project 2025. It first appears in the foreword on...
New post on mariayang.org: Tents. ⛺️
Tents. A tent in the woods is a symbol of defiance. Whether among towering trees, on a rocky beach, or next to an icy lake, it is a marker of someone...
New post on mariayang.org: Homelessness and the Supreme Court. ⚖️
Homelessness and the Supreme Court. Tomorrow (April 22) the United States Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the case City of Grants Pass, Oregon, v....
New post on mariayang.org: What is Mental Health? (03) 🌒
What is Mental Health? (03) Let’s take a look at the last figure from the paper What is mental health? Evidence towards a new definition from a mixed methods...
New post on mariayang.org: What is Mental Health? (02) 🌎
What is Mental Health? (02) To continue from my last post about “what is mental health?” and “what am I doing?”, let’s look at another figure from the paper...
New post on mariayang.org: What is Mental Health? (01) 🫥
What is Mental Health? (01) To try to answer the perennial question I ask myself (“what am I doing?”), I recently read this 2015 article, What is mental...
New post on mariayang.org: H/ours Lost. ⌛️
H/ours Lost. Most people in ten countries lost an hour of time between yesterday and today in the name of Daylight Saving. (Nearly 30 nations in the Northern...
New post on mariayang.org: Mental Habits. 🤔
Mental Habits. We got on the topic of nightclubs. “I’ve never been to that nightclub,” I said. “Yeah, I’ve never seen you there,” The Person replied, before...
New post on mariayang.org: On Mental Endurance. 🎈
On Mental Endurance. Although “mental endurance” is more wordy than “grit”, I prefer the extra syllables. “Grit” sounds difficult and uncomfortable: Jaws...
New post on mariayang.org: Hello Again. 👋
Hello Again. Hi. I feel some obligation to apologize for my lack of posting here over the past three months (!). Challenging Events happened in the last two...
New post on mariayang.org: Test
This is a test. How about another test? What else can I say here. I wonder if this will copy and paste links. So far none of the buttons below are lighting...