Month: April 2015
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My Kid Gets Migraines
My son has suffered migraines since he was at least two years old. I would regularly get phone calls from daycare to pick him up because he was sick again. We did not know what was happening. We thought that he was getting gastroenteritis, aka “the stomach flu.” Then my sister observed that when we celebrated holidays with…
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Mental Health Parity
Download the What is Mental Health Parity? infographic pdf. Download NAMI’s report A Long Road Ahead: Achieving True Parity in Mental Health and Substance Use Care See more at: http://www.nami.org/parityreport.aspx#sthash.HFj93AOu.dpuf
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Resources for Youth and Young Adults
Strength of Us Reach Out Here OK2TALK Half of Us Teens Health Each Mind Matters Teen Line Online Suicide Prevention Lifeline
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Fear of Loss
Thursday night I saw my psychologist over the disaster that was Tuesday. First I had her listen to the distraught voice recording I made that night. I told her about my son’s recurring gastroenteritis. He’s suffered from migraines with vomiting since he was a toddler, has gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), and gets gastroenteritis regularly during the…
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Death, Grief & the Beast
NAMI Orange County volunteer Melissa Nemeth passed on as did my brother-in-law Don. Grief that I denied myself now hits me. Now I realize how much compassion I withheld from my husband as I defended myself from pain and from being needed. My prayers go out to Melissa’s family and to my in-laws. The tears flow…
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Gardening & Praying
Lightly pruned our fig tree this morning, evening out its limbs. May not have been the best time of year to prune it, but some branches grew out of control, reaching into the neighbor’s yard and into the homeowners’ association’s hillside. Like me, the fig tree is productive, fecund, stretching itself outside the bounds of a…