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This week, Celebrity Psychings celebrates three years as part of the Psych Central blogging network…

…WOOHOO!

It’s been an interesting ride, one that’s been both smooth and bumpy, and I think we’ve all – readers and this writer included – learned something along the way.

One thing I’m especially happy to say is that Celebrity Pyschings has remained true to its original intent: From providing suicide warning signs and covering mental illness in popular culture back during its first month (December 2008!) to helping you cope with privacy invasion and fostering conversations about artists with mental health hurdles last month, Celebrity Psychings has been a blog about helping people better understand the kinds of mental health issues humans – celebrities and Everyday Joes alike – deal with on a daily basis.

To celebrate the ol’ gal’s birthday, I’d like to give YOU something.

Well, the chance to win something, that is!

For the most part, my Christmas shopping is finished.

I still have a few things coming in the mail, and there’s that stray aunt and uncle I can never figure out how to please, but overall, everything’s ordered, paid for, and marked off my list.

Oh, what a good feeling it is!

If you haven’t finished (or started – I know, we’ve already had Black Friday and Cyber Monday, but in the grand scheme of things it is still early) your holiday shopping, consider the following seven holiday gift ideas for mental health consumers and advocates.

1. Help out local mental health organizations.

Maybe you attend local support group meetings or are in some way involved in a local or community mental health organization. Or, maybe it’s a family member, friend, or other loved one of yours.

Either way, a donation to a local mental health organization can act as a gift to you, your loved one, and the community.

If you have some free time this weekend and your local theater is showing it, you might want to check out My Week With Marilyn, the new Marilyn Monroe film starring Eddie Redmayne, Kenneth Branagh, Emma Watson, and Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe.

My Week With Marilyn is a 99-minute British flick (don’t worry – it’s hit a number of theaters in The States) based on British writer and filmmaker Colin Clark’s account of working with Marilyn Monroe and Laurence Olivier during The Prince and the Showgirl – an account made up of two books and turned into a screenplay by writer Adrian Hodges.

The film played at nearly every fest you can think of (the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, the New York Film Festival, and the Chicago International Film Festival, just to name a few), but it doesn’t seem to be getting rave reviews now that it’s been released to the general British and American publics.