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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.

Reblog: What the Hell? Witholding a High-School Diploma for “Cursing”?

Maybe my stint in the Marine Corps has warped my perspective on what constitutes bad language. But I found the story of an Oklahoma high-school valedictorian whose diploma was withheld by the school principal because the girl “cursed” absolutely outrageous. Kaitlin Nootbaar, 18, was giving a speech to the Prague, OK, high school class of 2012 and talked about the difficulty she was having setting on a career choice. “How the hell do I know? I’ve changed my mind so many time,” she said. According to her father, Kaitlin(who graduated with a 4.0 average) was referencing the book, Eclipse–volume three in The Twilight Saga series. In the movie, there’s a scene that takes place at a high school graduation, and one of the characters–also talking about career choices says this: “When we were five, they asked us what we we, theranted to be when we grew up. Our answers were

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Tags: hell, reality ·

a new school year – for David too

well, after being largely awake the last two and a half days, the kids start school today.  Even David.  Yesterday we got a call from the Superintendent indicating that if we got all of the paperwork in, David could start the day school program at the residential facility that we applied to for long term placement. So the school district hired a driver.  It is almost 60 miles one way to the school. The Superintendent is even riding along this first day. I told my wife that after I catch up on my sleep, I will get busy on my projects.  First is a website for Family Voices of North Dakota. I have to get that done.  Plus I have some stuff to do around the house.  But first, a little rest. Cheers!   Tweet #fighting4answrs

Tags: ADHD, autism, autism support, bipolar, blogboost, Fibromyalgia, frustration, Health, Lupus, Mental disorder, mental health, non-compliance., Stress ·

I want to believe

I want to believe him. I want to have faith that his meds are in his body. I want to not overdose him on melatonin and clonidine.  Is it even possible to overdose on melatonin? Experience tells me differently.   twice tonight he has spit up his meds.  10 mg of melatonin each time plus .2mg of clonidine each time, should have him sleeping for 8 hours minimum.  yet he is awake.  with a litany of excuses as to why. He had such a good day too.  plus he has some electronic device that I can periodically see the glow to, but I haven’t been able to actually catch him with it yet. Tweet #fighting4answrs

Tags: Melatonin, mental health, sleep ·

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