Goodbye, Shrink Rap

When Clinkshrink, Roy, and I started Shrink Rap in April of 2006, I had no idea of the places that blogging would lead me.  We started blogging, and I became a tad obsessed.  We all loved the blog, the people we met, and the stimulating discussions and interactions we had with people from all over the world about mental health issues.  My thoughts were constantly bombarded with "I have to write a blog post about that!" And write, I did.ClinkShrink was a little more hesitant.  "You're going to get me fired!"she insisted.  Roy worried, too, and in fact, he called himself Deep Cover Roy and swore us to secrecy about his identity.  We blogged and we blogged.  Then Roy insisted we needed a podcast, and 70 episodes of My Three Shrinks went up on iTunes (they are still there).  There was chili and beer and guests who came to be interviewed at our dining room tables.  One night, I was at a psychiatric society dinner, and Roy proudly told someone sitting at our table, "I have a blog!"  His secret was out.  ClinkShrink decided that it couldn't really be a secret when we were presenting at the American Psychiatric Society's annual meeting.  No one got fired.We wrote two books,Shrink Rap: Three Psychiatrists Explain Their Work, andCommitted: The Battle Over Involuntary Psychiatric Care, winner of the APA's Carol Davis ethics award this year. We were on national and local radio, we've been grand rounds and CME speakers ...
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