Temple Grandin Answers Your Questions

Taken from  Temple Grandin’s Autism website  which is located   HERE.   QUESTION: I have heard you speak several times and you always say one of the best things your mother did was to teach you good manners.  I agree this is a VERY important part of social development.  My problem comes when my son, age [...]

Book Review: The Guardians — An Elegy

  Taken from the Huff Post  which is located    HERE. Lloyd I. Sederer, MD Medical director, New York State Office of Mental Health Need help? In the U.S., call 1-800-273-8255 for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.   Harris Wulfson died July 23, 2008. He had walked for some 10 hours from midtown in New York [...]

Why Treatment Is Critical For Youth With Mental Illness

Taken from the  Huff Post  which is located   HERE. There are moments, seemingly ordinary at the time, that later have the power to alter your entire life course. For me, one of those moments occurred more than 13 years ago while working as a journalist in Portland, Ore. On a Sunday afternoon, a fax landed [...]

Schizophrenia And Childhood Trauma May Be Connected

    Taken from   Mental Wellness Today   which is located   HERE. A recent study suggests that children who have experienced significant trauma are three times more likely to develop schizophrenia later in life. And the greater the trauma experienced as a child, the greater the chance of developing a mental illness as an adult. [...]

Down Syndrome: To Cade & The Eight Percent

  Taken from Q Ideas  which is located   HERE.   My son Cade is a survivor. Eleven years ago this week, Rebekah and I celebrated the birth of our first-born. Despite his Down syndrome diagnosis, we were overjoyed to welcome this new life into our family. But not everyone welcomes children like Cade. It’s no [...]

Key Ministry: Welcoming Youth and Their Families at Church

    Taken from NAMI which is located   HERE.   By Stephen Grcevich, M.D., president, Key Ministry and child adolescent psychiatry in private practice in Chagrin Falls, Ohio Key Ministry believes it is not okay for youth living with mental illness and their families to face barriers to participation in worship services, educational programming and [...]

Children With Autism Are Often Targeted By Bullies

  Taken from NPR  which is located   HERE. Lots of kids get bullied. But kids with autism are especially vulnerable. A new survey by the Interactive Autism Network found that nearly two-thirds of children with autism spectrum disorders have been bullied at some point. And it found that these kids are three times as likely [...]

Sexual Abuse Can Have Long Term Effects

Taken from  Gant Daily   which is located    HERE. By Martha Peaslee Levine, M.D. April has been designated as Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Sexual assault is, unfortunately, a rampant issue. According to RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network), someone in the United States is sexually assaulted every two minutes. Approximately two-thirds of these assaults are [...]

Schizophrenia: It Is What It Is

Taken from the NAMI blog which is located   HERE. By Dawn Brown, NAMI Information and Referral Specialist My son was 8 years old the first time a doctor told me he had a psychotic illness. My stunned reaction and the look of confusion on my face prompted the doctor to ask, “Do you know what [...]

Asperger’s Syndrome Documentary

This short documentary about Asperger’s Syndrome shown on TV in 2005 is about me, I have mild Asperger’s Syndrome. I was diagnosed in 2002. I knew I was different from the age of about 6 years old, hypotheses included – the reincarnation of King David or Pliny the Elder, a left behind Space Alien and [...]