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You are here: Home / Archives for mental health

On Depression – Let’s Keep Talking

September 13, 2013 by Nancy Leave a Comment

This hit me like a brick wall: Depression isn't feeling sad when everything is going wrong. Depression is  feeling sad when everything is going right.  This video is worth your time. Depression is worth talking about. It makes me wonder how many people I care about have sat at the end of their … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Life, Mental Health Tagged With: depression, how teenagers feel, kids, love, mental health, mom blog, motherhood, single mom blog

A Young Woman of Great Promise

June 20, 2013 by Kath 4 Comments

Any parent of a daughter (and let's face it: parents of sons, too) should be justifiably frightened by the emerging details of the Rehtaeh Parsons case. Pretty much any of us can imagine it: a fifteen year-old girl goes to a high school party, maybe even her first big party. Some booze is passed … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Mental Health, Parenting, Single Mom Tagged With: anxiety, anxiety disorder, bullying, cyber-bullying, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, mental health, mental illness, Rehtaeh Parsons, school avoidance, school refusal, sexual assault, Social Anxiety Disorder, suicide, teen suicide

Taking Back the Power

March 20, 2013 by Kath 14 Comments

Bottom line: dealing with severe anxiety and school refusal (my daughter has been diagnosed with severe Social Anxiety Disorder and Generalized Anxiety Disorder - along with a few other things) is no easy task for either the child suffering from them or the parents. So in order to help me understand … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Education Tagged With: anxiety, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, mental health, mental illness, school refusal, separation anxiety, Social Anxiety Disorder

I Am Not an Island, But I Am Going To One

March 7, 2012 by Amanda

This winter kicked my butt. I had a husband who spent most of January traipsing through South America on a business trip while I battled a houseful of stomach flu, night terrors, HEAD LICE (still scarred from that one), broken heat pumps, record-breaking cold temperatures, barking coughs, and the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: mental health, rest, travel, Victoria

Here’s to the Crazy Ones

October 11, 2011 by erinlittle

This video inspired this post."Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes.The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: education, Giftedness, Here's to the Crazy Ones, mental health, raising twins, Revolutionaries, Steve Jobs, twins, Visionaries

In an Unexpected Place

June 20, 2011 by Kath

Join UrbanMoms as we discuss being active and making healthy choices in the "life is good" blog series sponsored by Nesquik. At a time when most Canadian children may not be getting the calcium and other essential nutrients they need, delicious milk - like chocolate milk made with Nesquik - is just … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Family Tagged With: aquarium, fish, fishtank, health, mental health, molly, parenting, pets, single parent

Signs, Symptoms and Risks of Drug Use in Teens—and How to Get Help

March 28, 2010 by Leslie Kennedy Leave a Comment

It sounds so dramatic—opioid crisis. The reality is that deaths due to drugs being laced with extremely dangerous substances are on the rise. The biggest culprit is fentanyl, a drug you can’t see or smell, and that, even just trace amounts, can cause death. Teens dabbling with drugs is nothing … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Drugs, Family, Family, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Tweens & Teens Tagged With: drugs, fentanyl, mental health, opioid, opioid crisis, self esteem, sponsored, talking to kids about drugs, Teens, teens and drugs

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