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Facing Us is holding a video contest. Submit a personal vignette about a mood disorder up to nine minutes long, or a 30 second PSA. 2D visual art category as well. Cash prizes up to $1000.

Check out this memorial cookbook compiled by survivors of suicide. It's a lovely resource to share in times of distress: memories, poetry and support along with recipes for comforting food. "Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon." --Emile Durkheim Click here if you are in crisis right now. Please.

Video of a Second Life virtual reality simulation of psychosis in schizophrenia, created by UC Davis Professor of Psychiatry Peter Yellowlees. Also, create a psychotic VR therapeutic scenario with NeuroVR (from Positive Technology Journal).

A music video, a crowdsourced homecast cultural expression ... Brain Tamer by Peter Johnson. Brain Tamer

Rejection letters always hurt a little, even for Dr. Phil. I'm sure he'll work through it. Thank you for submitting your application for the director's position at the National Institutes of Health. As the N.I.H. is the principal force guiding America's efforts in medical research, we have strived to consider every candidate's application seriously. Our first impression was not a good one. You have a loud and exuberant manner that is an oddity in our network of colleagues, and for the duration of the interview process, you were physically sitting on top of Dr. James Watson (a man…

From We Have Pie Charts, via David Ng at Science Creative Quarterly (look there for my short story Neuroerotica) and ScienceBlog .

Trying to explain steroid hormones as transcription factors to someone, and just don't have the words? According to a student at the Max Plank Institute of Experimental Medicine, who drew the figure below,"The results of this mechanism could you easily have studied entering puberty." Or you could have made a drawing like this! Source.