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• The End of 2012.

  

  SERENADE 2 SENIORS:Phones, laptops and printers are wirelessAnd stoves are firelessCars are keylessFood is fatless.Tires are tubelessClothes are... Read more

  Posted on 24 December 2012 COMMUNITY, HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY

• Alter Your Dreams

  A parent with a child suffering from a mental illness feels shock, loss, grief, fear, confusion, ambivalence, helplessness, hopelessness, despair and sometimes... Read more

  Posted on 23 December 2012 COMMUNITY, HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY

• Did Our Family Cope with Mental Illness?

  

  Did my family cope? Did we nearly cope? In actual fact, we were drowning. Not one of us had come in contact with a person suffering from a mental illness, so... Read more

  Posted on 22 December 2012 COMMUNITY, HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY

• Why I Speak out

  

  MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS AFFECT 1 IN 4 PEOPLE WORLDWIDE.I speak out in order to explain the process. Every parent with a child suffering from a mental illness... Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2012 COMMUNITY, HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY

• I Broke Down When the Members of the Mental Health Club Visited Us

  

  David’s friends from the mental health social group visited to pay their respects and to comfort us. They told us about the memorial service they had held for... Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2012 COMMUNITY, HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY

• I Am Still the Same Person as I Was Before the Accident …

  

  “I am still the same person inside as I was before my accident. I need help to do certain tasks but I am able to speak, think and feel the same as other people... Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2012 COMMUNITY, HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY

• I Really Landed in the Shit This Time …

  

  During the 16 years of my son’s illness, I seldom slept well and often landed up in the kitchen where I drank something hot and read. My husband did the same bu... Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2012 COMMUNITY, HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY

• There is Now an Invisible Line Between the World and Me …

  David’s suicide drew an invisible line between the world and me. I lived grief day by day, endless days, wondering how I would survive the following one,... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2012 COMMUNITY, HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY

• I Will Not Be Writing My Regular Blog Today as a Mark of ...

  I will not be writing my regular blog today as a mark of respect to the children and teachers who were shot to death in cold blood at the Sandy Hook Elementary... Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2012 COMMUNITY, HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY

• Such a Lack of Understanding Surrounding a Suicide.

  There is so much stigma and such a lack of understanding surrounding mental illness and suicide. Someone actually said the following to us after our son died... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2012 COMMUNITY, HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY

• The 2012 WEGO Health Activist Award

  

  I’ve been blogging about the blame, shame, discrimination and stigma associated with mental illness for over a year now and it was a good feeling, a satisfactor... Read more

  Posted on 13 December 2012 COMMUNITY, HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY

• How Will We Cope?

  We wanted our lives back. We’d devoted 16 years to David and his needs, his doctors, his medications, the schizophrenia that had drained the life out of him... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2012 COMMUNITY, HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY

• You Have to Be ‘normal’ If You …

  

  In our world, in order to fit in, one has to be normal. But, what is normal? According to the Random House Dictionary: nor-mal means: not abnormal, regular,... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2012 COMMUNITY, HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY

• That Old House …

  

  Sometimes late at night or early in the morning when the people I love lie sleeping upstairs or are off someplace doing their own thing, I sit with my dog, and... Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2012 COMMUNITY, HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY

• ‘No One Has the Right to Make You Feel Worthless. Nobody, Ever.

  

  REMEMBER THIS. No one has the right to make you feel worthless. A mental illness is a brain illness and as our brains are a part of our bodies, our brains are... Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2012 COMMUNITY, HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY

• Losing a Son … How Do Parents Cope with This Situation?

  Death had claimed our son, David and the resultant anguish was ours to bear. Over the past 16 years I’d shed more tears than I had my whole life. Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2012 COMMUNITY, HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY

• “So You Know That I Suffer from a Mental Illness?” “Me Too.”

  

  “Do you know that I suffer from a mental illnes?” Jim asked his co-worker.“No kidding. Me too.” The two co-workers stared at one another. Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2012 COMMUNITY, HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY

• Employers Report Motivation …..

  

  I discovered that many employers who hired workers suffering from mental illnesses have reported good attendance and punctuality as well as motivation, good wor... Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2012 COMMUNITY, HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY

• If the Worker Has a Mental Disorder…….

  

  All jobs are stressful to some extent. Most people are more productive when there is a good match between the employee’s needs and his/her working conditions,... Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2012 COMMUNITY, HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY

• A New Institution

  

  , new patients, the same alienated treatment.No improvementonly deteriorationPatients don’t co-operateNo change … more suffering … no peace. Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2012 COMMUNITY, HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY