JANE'S MENTAL HEALTH SOURCE PAGE
One of the Web's Oldest Personal Mental Health Sites [Est. 1998]
What would you tell him or her? I’ve been thinking about a collaborative book project – an inspirational book – written by mothers and fathers who have suffered from depression and bipolar disorder and other mental illnesses. We all desperately hope that our children don’t get these genes, but suppose some of them do. What [...]
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In May 2011 National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) found that parents perceive their primary care doctors aren’t able to provide the level of care and service when it comes to children’s mental health. A survey of 554 parents and caregivers, released May 11 by the National Alliance on Mental Illness, found that 83% wanted [...]
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This morning on NPR I heard a segment that didn’t surprise me (since I’ve lived through the teenager depression years)! Today’s teenagers are chronically sleep deprived. They should be getting about 9.5 hours of sleep – but they would get on average only 7 hours of sleep per day. The cumulative sleep debt that teenagers [...]
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A Window Between Worlds (AWBW) is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization founded to use art as a healing tool to help victims of domestic violence find their “voice” so they can express what words cannot say. I will be using this donation thermometer for the next few months to track my progress in helping AWBW raise [...]
When I first set out to write this book, I thought I was writing a different book. I thought I would write about my journey through clinical depression, how I was helped by medication and psychotherapy, and specifically, how the strange dreams (often spiritual with animal themes) I was having played a large part in [...]
On Quora there were a couple of questions relating to suicide that piqued my interest: Why did David Foster Wallace commit suicide? and Is Suicide Selfish? As a person who has, in the past, experienced clinical depression and suicidal ideation, I understand that this question is 1) loaded and 2) easy to answer with a [...]
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Amy Chua is right about this form of parenting when you want to create a society that: 1) considers physical, mental, and emotional coercion as the only form of gaining compliance from a human being 2) considers outward success based on a standard of “winning” and “better than” as the only form of success 3) [...]
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I actually wrote this article in 2006 when I titled it, “An Asian Adult Child’s Guide to Reclaiming Your Own Mind”. In light of the recent “Chinese Mothers are Superior” article, I thought I’d share how ANY adult children who have been programmed for self-hatred can begin to reclaim themselves as human beings. If you [...]
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