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Parent Support Groups: Those Who Live It, Understand
Photo Courtesy of www.digitalapoptosis.com Chances are, if you’re reading this, you are already looking for peers, and that’s a good thing. There is one immutable truth I’ve learned going through this roller coaster the past 15 some-odd years: no matter how great your psychiatrist, psychologist, therapists, social worker, case manager and school administrators are, they…
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Nickelodeon Needs to Be Educated – Guest Blog for BC2M
I cringe, wondering what tweeners who watched that think about psychiatric treatment. If they ever experience depression, will they tell anyone, or will they fear the dirty room full of strange adults and security guards? Will parents who saw it shy away at getting a child treatment, thinking the facility will be full of adults…
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Speech Therapy Is About More Than Just Speech
This post is part of Best of the Best Edition 9: Special Needs Therapy. If you click this link starting August 15th, you’ll find similar articles by other authors. Tim’s first diagnosis, at age four, was Pervasive Developmental Disorder, Not Otherwise Specified. That’s a long, fancy way of saying, “we have no idea what’s going…
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Nickelodeon, iCarly Loses Their Minds – and Perpetuates Stigma
If you follow me on Twitter (Chrisa_Hickey) or follow the Child and Adolescent Bipolar Foundation (bpkids) then you know about tonight’s episode of iCarly entitled, “iLost My Mind”. It’s appalling that a kid’s TV show thinks it’s ok to poke fun at mental illness. Here’s a preview of the episode: I will be live blogging…