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Victoria Costello
mental health
I focus on consumer strategies for maintaining mental health and treating mental disorders.
Articles
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<p>An opinion piece, borne of personal experience and a decade of mental health reporting, arguing in favor of many proposed changes to the DSM-5 that would allow early intervention for common mental disorders.</p>
<p>My Story on HuffPost Today: After being invited to blog on HuffPost's "Post 50" pages, it only took a moment to decide what part of my three generation portrait of mental illness would be most relevant to their readers.</p>
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<p>This was my final post as a blogger for Psychology Today.com. After two years and 110,000 page views, its editors decided my contributions "no longer met their editorial needs." Coincidence? You decide.</p>
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<p>How do you meld science reporting with a memoir of mental illness? Author and journalist Victoria Costello explores how and why she wrote her new book, "A Lethal Inheritance."<em></em></p>