This Emotional Life

watch this show. It gives a nice wide lense onto alot of similar pbs shows on inspiration, mental health, etc.

http://www.pbs.org/thisemotionallife/

I might buy the pbs but the few keys I am getting into is

1) Start meditating again but work this into excercise schedule.
2) Happiness has a greater occurance in people with social circles. Whether religion, fellowship, support groups. Increase and make the network substantial.
3) Happiness is contagious. Be more happy with my friends.

Some useful link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/pbs-this-emotional-life

I just tried to enter publisher clearing house sweepstakes

and major FAIL. If you are reading this... the pch.com or publisher's clearing house online entry is a complete joke. Maybe I was entering with the wrong browser but I do not think so. I went through dozens of screens by skipping the offers only to return back in the progress screen. Than the entry seemed to disappear by redirecting me to some other website like for surveys and stuff (WHERE IS MY ENTRY?). So after doing all of backs and going further back into the history I gave up because it never verified my entry. It was a very confusing experience. No big loss since the end date is in february 2012. That is Over 2 years!!! to wait to know if you won. At least it caused me to make a very hateful blog post about it.

My Mental Assessment Went OK

I kinda expected a little more. I went into the hospital at around 9:30am. Signed up with my insurance and preceded to wait. The wait was like an hour and saw a psychiatrist that is suppose to be short with preliminary questions. He mainly asked me why I was there... It's kinda stupid because I said for a mental assessment. He kept saying for any particular problem and I said not really. Basically it seems like only a few minutes. Went out to wait and that's like another half hour before I saw a female psychiatrist.

She asked some simple and basic questions. Some really simple cognitive functioning question like remember apple, chair, table. No ink blot or other props. Think around 20 minutes or less and I was told to wait outside... Than she comes back 3 minutes asking questions like do you believe the tv is talking directly to you and asking you to do things... hahaha. That was funny. Another 10 minute or more wait to be told I passed my Mental Assessment. Woohoo!!!

Though I have to say the experience doesn't really give me much faith in the psychiatric profession. Doesn't seem very thorough. Outpatient services are like 300 dollars a session. Ouch.