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Shameless Request for Donations
Hi there – Tim and I are walking on team BringChange2Mind at NAMIWalk Milwaukee on May 15th. We’re walking to fight the stigma of mental illness. If you have the ability, I’d really appreciate if you could sponsor Tim. All funds raised are split 50/50 between NAMI and BringChange2Mind. Click here to go to Tim’s…
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Body and Mind: Taking a Break
I’ve mentioned in a previous blog post that my son Tim is in long-term residential treatment. He was admitted last August, and right now, his estimated discharge date is sometime during the summer of 2011. It’s incomprehensible to me that he will be gone from our home that long. I can only digest it in…
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Adopt and Abandon – the Parents
As I write this, the news is on fire with the story of Torry Hansen “returning” her seven-year-old adopted son to his birth country of Russia via one-way airline ticket. As the adoptive mom of a mentally ill child (albeit domestically), I’m interested in the story. But I’d rather blog today about the Westcotts. The…
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Bad Moon Rising
It’s nearly a full moon tonight. Sunday will mark the third full moon of 2010, already. Hard to believe there’s been that many already this year. We’ve been very cognizant of the lunar cycle since Tim was a small boy. Although psychology rejects the notion, I’ve charted Tim’s manic cycles and psychosis to a fairly…