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No Yoga Pants.

No Yoga Pants.

December 14, 2013 kales@umich.edu ,

Written in pink marker, “The List” appeared on my night stand.  It was the evening before my 13 year old daughter’s field trip to Mexicantown in Detroit with her Spanish class.  Sophia had asked me to be one of the chaperones: “My friends like you…they think you are fun.”  I was slightly suspicious, but honored.  Who doesn’t want to be the fun mom?  And then the List appeared.

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Let’s talk about depression.

Let’s talk about depression.

December 7, 2013 kales@umich.edu ,

A friend posted the thought-provoking cartoon on the left on  Facebook with the title ‘If Physical Diseases Were Treated Like Mental Illness’ (credit to Robot Hugs).  The cartoon graphically points out something that all of us know—“mental” disorders are treated differently than “physical” disorders.

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(Gero)transcendence, my mom and me.

(Gero)transcendence, my mom and me.

December 3, 2013 kales@umich.edu ,

 About a month ago, I traveled to Falls Church, Virginia to give a talk.  As is my usual pattern, I sign on to give a talk 6-12 months ahead of time.  “Sure!  Sounds great.”  And in my office, on the end of the phone, 6-12 months ahead of time, it truly does.   A couple weeks ahead of the actual event, it dawns on me.  I have to leave Ann Arbor and my family (husband, 3 kids and 2 dogs) to go somewhere.  Crap.  As we like to say in

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To look good or to feel good?

To look good or to feel good?

November 30, 2013 kales@umich.edu

As we are often reminded, the population of our country is aging.  By 2030, there will be as many older people as young people in this country.  I am 48, so by 2030, I will be one of the over-65 crowd.  Like everyone else, I want to age well.  In preparing slides for a talk to group of psychiatry residents, I came across the picture above.  Showing it to the residents always gets a laugh and some funny comments like, “looks like his head was transplanted onto a younger body”.

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