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Category Archives: Mentalhealth
Another Review
Returned to see how things are travelling. We were offered to a student as a case study with all the necessary data and records she needs ready to write it so I may get further calls about some additional interviews. Our story must be told apparently! I had been trying desperately to dig up some … Continue reading
A year already
Not since I started the blog but Since we learned that what we were dealing with what in fact bipolar disorder. It was the beginning of getting a real handle on it for years we had thrown everything and the kitchen sink at it but what was missing was diagnosis and medication. The girls stayed … Continue reading
Plodding along and taking a breather
Another 2 weeks of school holidays are nearing their end. Jac has celebrated her twelth birthday with a day at comic con with her best friend and sisters, her first keycard for her bank account and a visit to Nana and Pa’s The school holidays were heralded with a bang unusually for us we skipped … Continue reading
Why?
I’m not usually one to say why me because if I did I would be asking it daily. Shit happens. But I do wonder some days why I bother. Late last night someone’s spawn decided to trash my quite expensive mail box actually the damage was done progressively from Friday through til late Sunday … Continue reading
The Messiness of Myths and Legend’s
Came across the below statement on Facebook yesterday and of course it instantly got my goat up, it is absolute nonsense; Today we have treatments and therapies which ACTUALLY work! With the right help and support these “brats ” can top their class, win awards and drop jaws. To have such an attitude towards pediatric … Continue reading
Building on their strengths…
Managing mental illness while in the early stages may seem about clinic’s and prescriptions and diagnostic assessments and scales it absolutely isn’t actually about that. While diagnosis and treatment are critical it is only the first stage, there are many more. Once diagnosis is confirmed it then moves on to Learning about what this diagnosis … Continue reading
OMG you will not believe this!
OMG OMG OMG Seriously I FOUND ANOTHER MUMMY! She has totally been going through the same stuff we have, She hasn’t messaged me but lets hope she does it feel’s so Amazing to know that I AM NOT ALONE! Everyone else is on the far side of the Ocean Far Far Away……it is quite lonely … Continue reading
Sitting in a Fish Bowl
We are currently enrolled in a number of studies…..research…hoosy whatsits…basically they ask us a great many of questions…. I believe currently we are participating in 2 although it could be 3 I lose track who each set of interviews and questionnaires are for and there are others they are in the process of enrolling us … Continue reading
Women’s business
The vast majority of medical research is actually conducted on men, due to risks of possible influence on pregnancies or future pregnancies, unfortunately this leaves women (even though we make up roughly half the worlds population) in a no man’s land when it comes to health care….although this is slowly changing. There are medical conditions … Continue reading
The Little Super Hero 
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