Category Archives: Mental Health

Articles relating to mental health are in this category. Typically they will fall into one of two categories. Yours, or your child’s. Yes, your mental health is important.

the good stuff

Dear readers, as many of you know through the writings here, David has been in residential placement.  He is on his third major placement and like 10th or 11th minor placement.  Major is facilities where he has stayed for more than 30 days, and minor are all of the others. This past week was a fantastic week for him.  He has some residents in the facility that have been picking on him.  Rather than fighting back physically, he has chosen the power of the pen and filed a complaint.  This is the second time he has chosen this method rather than fighting.   For David this is huge and needs to be celebrated! The other very positive thing that occurred this last week is that David moved up a level.  He is at the highest privilege level he has ever been at in this facility. Does that mean he is

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Evan Rachel Wood says Vanity Fair made her feel like ‘meat’ | Fox News —- a message to young ladies everywhere

Evan Rachel Wood says Vanity Fair made her feel like ‘meat’ | Fox News. ——— I sometimes come across online articles that make me ponder humanity.  I don’t know.  I guess I have little tolerance for haters. This actress posts about how she FELT during a photo shoot.  Something that was very personal for her to share.  Yet people are attacking her saying that she should feel privileged and stop complaining about being on the cover of Vanity Fair magazine. It seems to me that they missed the purpose of her postings entirely. So she had to explain it to them.  I’ll let my readers peruse the article for themselves.  But a comment from me as a parent of two young ladies. I applaud Miss Wood for coming out about this.  I can’t imagine living in a fish bowl such as celebrity would bring.  Let alone to be a female

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Ending violence in America

Ted Nugent recently penned a column regarding the violence in Ferguson, stating ““killer” liberalism is the real problem, Nugent concludes, and only by renouncing it will African-Americans finally see their lot improve.” I know what Liberalism means. How can renouncing “Liberalism” end violence? Is violence limited to that African-American population? I think not. For those so inclined, you can click on the word Liberalism for a definition. What I would like to know, is:  Does Mr. Nugent know what Liberalism means? The key to ending violence isn’t renouncing “a political or social philosophy advocating the freedom of the individual, parliamentary systems of government, nonviolent modification of political, social, or economic institutions to assure unrestricted development in all spheres of human endeavor, and governmental guarantees of individual rights and civil liberties.”  After all, individual rights and civil liberties are what make this country what it is.  This is what enables Mr. Nugent to be the gun

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