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August 27th, 2008 — , Exercise, advocasy, causes, employment, empowerment, fat acceptance, fat phobia, fatblogging, healthcare, nutrition, obesity, unhealthy eating, weight loss from BamaGal @ Back Across The Line
Here is a headline from Alabama in mid-July:
Alabama Obesity Ranking (WBHM - NPR News and Classical Music)
Montgomery — Alabama has once again been ranked as one of the most obese states in the country. The latest survey from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that Mississippi was the most obese state, with 32 percent of adults having a body mass index (BMI) greater than 30. 
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August 26th, 2008 — , NAMI, SAD, advocasy, bipolar, causes, depression, empowerment, health problems, healthcare, mental health, mental illness, stigma from BamaGal @ Back Across The Line
The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) is preparing to grade each of the 50 states on public mental health services in 2009 and needs your help. Please take this online survey and forward it to others. It includes a Spanish version.
Anyone age 18 or older who has been diagnosed with a serious mental illness or who has an adult family member with a diagnosed mental illness can take the 
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August 4th, 2008 — , advocasy, bipolar, causes, depression, mental health, mental illness, suicide from BamaGal @ Back Across The Line
2008 Out of the Darkness Community Walk registration is now open! If you haven’t done so already, please visit www.outofthedarkness.org to register for a walk in your area!
Thank you for your dedication and participation in the AFSP Out of the Darkness Community Walks
VISIT MY PERSONAL DONATION PAGE
I will be participating in a walk in September of this year. Please take a few 
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May 14th, 2008 — , bipolar, causes, depression, healthcare, mental health, mental health america, stigma from BamaGal @ Back Across The Line
Mental Health Month:
Get Connected
Mental Health America - Take Action
Legislation to delay a series of federal regulations that would severely limit Medicaid coverage of rehabilitative, case management, and school-based services is being opposed by certain Republican Senators. To counter this opposition, Democratic leaders are seeking to incorporate this legislation into a supplemental war 
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May 12th, 2008 — , advocasy, bipolar, causes, depression, mental health, mental illness, suicide from BamaGal @ Back Across The Line
2008 Out of the Darkness Community Walk registration is now open! If you haven’t done so already, please visit www.outofthedarkness.org to register for a walk in your area! If you do not see a walk in your area and would like to start a walk in your community, please contact Mike Lamma, Director of Field Management, at mlamma@afsp.org or 1-888-333-AFSP (2377) x16. Please include your 
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May 5th, 2008 — , Health, accountability, advocasy, causes, hunger from BamaGal @ Back Across The Line
2008 Food Drive is letter carrier blitz against hunger
Letter carriers, with help from their sisters and brothers in the other postal crafts and thousands of other volunteers, will stage a blitz on Saturday, May 10, to combat hunger in America, conducting NALC’s annual “Stamp Out Hunger” Food Drive in every U.S. state and jurisdiction.
The drive, in its 16th year, is the largest one-day food 
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March 20th, 2008 — , Anatomical Donor, Diabetes, Health, WLS, advocasy, bipolar, causes, depression, mental health, mental illness, mortality, nutrition, obesity, weight loss from BamaGal @ Back Across The Line
I can just hear the majority of y’all out there going EWWWW!!!!
If you feel that way based on your particular spiritual beliefs, then don’t bother reading further. I respect your beliefs. Just wish more respected mine. That’s another post for another day.
I am an Anatomical Donor.
I’m sure many of you out there are organ donors. Here again you may not be, based on your spiritual beliefs. Yet 
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March 17th, 2008 — , advocasy, bipolar, causes, depression, discrimination, mental health, mental health america, mental illness, parity, stigma, suicide from BamaGal @ Back Across The Line
House passes mental health parity - work still to be done
The House of Representatives passed the Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act, HR 1424, on March 5! The House-passed measure must now be reconciled with a parity bill already passed by the Senate, S. 558. A final version will have to be approved by both chambers and signed by the President before people living with mental
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March 13th, 2008 — , Health, Kate Harding, blogging, causes, discrimination, fat acceptance, misc from BamaGal @ Back Across The Line
Prom time is approaching. Kate Harding had an excellent idea. Her idea is to help underprivileged girls have the prom of their dreams by donating some of your fancy dress clothes to a local charity like The Glass Slipper Project.
I remember my prom days. My family never had too much money. But my daddy worked 80 hour weeks to keep my younger brother and me in a private school. He wanted us to 
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March 7th, 2008 — , NAMI, advocasy, bipolar, causes, depression, mental health, mental health america, mental illness, parity from BamaGal @ Back Across The Line
You helped make history!! Your support for mental health parity helped propel the Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act, H.R. 1424, to a historic vote in the House of Representatives where it passed 268-148 on March 5. This first-ever House vote on a comprehensive mental health/addiction parity bill gives our cause new momentum. Work yet to be done.
But even with this victory, 
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March 6th, 2008 — , NAMI, advocasy, causes, depression, discrimination, mental health, mental illness, stigma, suicide from BamaGal @ Back Across The Line
Staggering statistic huh.
I’ve talked about suicide and mental health quite alot in my blog. I’ve even touched on the fact that I once found myself in that deep dark pit of despair. Lucky for me, I survived my own suicide attempt. It has caused lasting health issues for me. But I’m still holding on.
The typical person can not grasp why someone would attempt take their own life. You would 
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January 14th, 2008 — , Health, NAMI, causes, healthcare, mental health, mental illness, parity, presidential elections from BamaGal @ Back Across The Line
In one of my recent Mental Health posts, I told you how NAMI sent out a questionnaire to all the presidential candidates. This is how it stand so far:Democrats Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New YorkQuestionnaire response John Edwards, former Senator…
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January 11th, 2008 — , Motivation, advocasy, call to protect, causes, domestic violence, inspiration, the wireless foundation from BamaGal @ Back Across The Line
For those who are regular readers of this blog. Thanks you for taking the time to share my thoughts. Also you know I’m a strong advocate for many causes. all of them have touched my life somehow. This cause is no different.I don’t speak much about my h…
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December 28th, 2007 — , Health, advocasy, bipolar, causes, depression, healthcare, mental health, mental illness, parity from BamaGal @ Back Across The Line
NAMI sent a questionnaire on leading mental health issues to all the presidential candidates. Candidates are answering and we encourage you to view their positions on our new Explore the Candidates page.NAMI will be posting additional responses and ma…
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December 6th, 2007 — , Health, Motivation, Personal, advocasy, bipolar, causes, depression, empowerment, mental health, mental illness, stigma, suicide from BG @ Back Across The Line
ATTENTION: ACTION NEEDEDWe are SO close! Passage of a strong parity law is within reach. But this session of Congress will end before Christmas. If a parity bill is not passed by then, we risk losing it entirely in election-year deadlock!Join me and ma…
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