Claudette Pilger, M.Ed., Psy.D.

01/01/2023

03/14/2020

https://apple.news/AaVEAyMfhRkuoWMF4d-lZNA

There's enough going on. Don't let you mental health take a beating, too.

06/11/2016

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/05/fashion/breakups-rejection-neuroscience.html?smid=nytcore-ipad-share&smprod=nytcore-ipad

When a neuroscience student gets dumped, she finds comfort (and an over-the-counter remedy) in her knowledge of the physiology of romantic rejection.

03/07/2016

Watching this, I am grateful to live in Virginia.
http://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/419358/chinas-stigma-around-mental-health/?utm_source=SFFB

One man's journey to establishing the country's first depression support group

03/01/2016

Maybe Fairfax can learn something.

A new book and exhibit take a look at the programs, buildings, and people that have brought the system to where it is today—and what still needs to be done.

02/19/2016

(2-19-16) I received emails last week from two readers who were angry that the Senate Judiciary Committee had asked me to testify but had not asked anyone with a mental illness to speak during a recent congressional hearing.

10/05/2015

http://www.peteearley.com/2015/10/05/1-in-4-inmates-have-a-mental-illness-quit-bickering-end-the-cycle/

(10-4-15) Mira Signer, the executive director of the National Alliance on Mental Illness in Virginia, reminds us in this Op Ed printed this weekend in The Washington Post that we know how to help persons with mental illnesses who are locked in Virginia’s jails and prisons — we simply aren’t doing it…

04/07/2015

Photographer Anne Betton, 37, was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 2009. After an arts-focused education, she had moved on to a career in business communication—but a breakdown caused her to cycle between mania and depression for several year...

04/07/2015

How we construct personal narratives has a major impact on our mental well-being.

02/14/2015

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-lieblich-freshman-depression-20150212-story.html

A recently released survey of 150,000 college freshmen found that 9.5% had frequently felt depressed in the last year, up from 6.1% in 2009. As such numbers rise, some colleges balk at the idea of being "caretakers" for their psychologically fragile students. But ignoring the mental health of freshm…

02/10/2014

http://namivirginia.org/assets/pdfs/Permanent%20Supportive%20Housing.pdf