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This Week: Mental Illness in the News

February 27, 2015 by Amy White Leave a Comment

Mental Illness news

Last week I debuted the first blog “Mental Illness in the News” round-up. Thank you all for your great feedback; many of the blog readers were very excited about last week’s list!  Since it was so well received, I decided to do it again! So this week, we again looked for news and other articles that showed the […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Healing, Mental Health General, Writing Tagged With: advice, advocacy, care, coaching, community, compassion, courage, guidance, healing, healthcare, hope, letting go, media, Mental Health, Mental Health Support, Mental illness, news, parenting, self, self love, social media, stigma, support, writing

Mental Illness in the News

February 20, 2015 by Amy White 2 Comments

Mental Illness in the News

As a caregiver and mental health advocate, I keep my eyes and ears open for news and discussions related to mental illness and stigma. There seems to be an influx of news stories recently, and the good news is that these stories are not being circulated on the heels of a tragic event or situation […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Mental Health General, Mental Health Support, Writing Tagged With: advice, advocacy, blame, care, coaching, community, compassion, courage, Depression, Emergency Department, Fear, guidance, healing, hope, hospitalization, letting go, love, media, Mental Health, Mental Health Support, Mental illness, Mother, news, self, stigma, support, writing

Ghosts of Christmas Past

December 22, 2014 by Amy White 2 Comments

Christmas time, as the song goes, is a time of joy and cheer. For me, it serves as a reminder of a specific Christmas season four years ago; the year that everything changed. It was a major fork in the road for me, and as Yogi Berra says, “When you come to the fork in the road, take it” and take it I did.

Filed Under: Healing, Mental Health Support, Parenting Tagged With: advice, advocacy, blame, care, coaching, community, compassion, CPEP, Emergency Department, Fear, hospitalization, Mental Health, Mental illness, Mom, parenting, self, self love, stigma, support, teens, understanding

Caution: Caregiver Pitfalls

December 5, 2014 by Amy White 7 Comments

As I started down the long road of my son’s health crisis, I couldn’t believe the number of times I tripped and fell into something that I had no idea I needed to watch out for. I was, as many would be, fully immersed in the experience; focusing on what my son needed to keep […]

Filed Under: Healing, Mental Health Support, Parenting Tagged With: advice, advocacy, beware, care, caregiver, caregiving, coaching, community, compassion, Depression, Fear, guidance, healing, healthcare, hope, hospitalization, letting go, Mental Health, Mental Health Support, Mental illness, parenting, pitfalls, support, understanding, writing

Guest Post: The Concept Of Self Value

October 29, 2014 by Amy White Leave a Comment

So thrilled to feature our first guest post here on the blog; the subject is Self Value and finding your worth as you look through the sometimes dark and cloudy lens of depression.

Filed Under: Guest Post, Healing, Mental Health Support, Writing Tagged With: advice, compassion, Depression, healing, hope, hospitalization, letting go, love, Mental Health, Mental Health Support, Mental illness, self love, teens, writing

Peer Pressure

July 1, 2014 by Amy White 10 Comments

Caregivers

  ***My hope is that this post will help parents and caregivers better understand the role that peer pressure can play in an adolescent’s mental health crisis, especially where cutting is involved*** One of the most startling experiences during my son’s mental health crisis was the realization that within his adolescent peer group, mental illness […]

Filed Under: Mental Health General, Mental Health Support, Parenting Tagged With: advice, advocacy, blame, care, coaching, compassion, courage, CPEP, cutting, Depression, expectations, healthcare, hope, hospitalization, letting go, love, Mental Health, Mental Health Support, Mental illness, Mom, parenting, social media, stigma, teens, understanding

Speaking Up

June 30, 2014 by Amy White 5 Comments

The following post was originally published on the Childhood Bipolar Project site on June 28, 2014. As you read, think about this… how often do we ignore that voice inside us that says something is not right, this doesn’t feel right to me or this doesn’t honor my needs? And why do we ignore? Food […]

Filed Under: Mental Health General Tagged With: advice, advocacy, care, coaching, compassion, courage, CPEP, Depression, Emergency Department, healthcare, hospitalization, love, Mental Health, Mental Health Support, Mental illness, mental wellness, Mom, parenting, psych ward, self love, stigma, support, teens, understanding, wellness

Yoga, Hip-Hop and Healing

June 25, 2014 by Amy White 6 Comments

YOGA

Over this past weekend, I had the opportunity to attend a yoga conference in the mountains of Vermont. Perhaps, upon reading this, your mind went right to a visual of hippie flower children running around the mountainside Namaste-ing each other. And you know what? You’d be right on! Oh, but it was so much more […]

Filed Under: Healing, Mental Health General, Mental Health Support Tagged With: advice, advocacy, blame, coaching, community, compassion, courage, Depression, Fear, guidance, hospitalization, letting go, love, Mental Health, Mental illness, Mom, parenting, procrastination, running, self love, social networking, stigma, support, Twitter, understanding, writing, yoga

Unexpected Memories

June 9, 2014 by Amy White 6 Comments

On a recent morning, I was driving to an early meeting when I hit quite a bit of traffic. Living where I do, we can be anywhere from the suburbs to the city within 20 minutes; during normal “rush hour” it might take 27 minutes. But on this morning, traffic was stopped. I flipped on […]

Filed Under: Healing, Mental Health General, Mental Health Support, Parenting Tagged With: advice, advocacy, care, community, compassion, courage, CPEP, Depression, healthcare, hope, hospitalization, letting go, love, memories, Mental Health, Mental Health Support, Mental illness, Mom, Mother, parenting, self love, social media, stigma, support, teens, unexpected

Shattering the Stigma

May 29, 2014 by Amy White Leave a Comment

  Today, Far From Paradise’s latest post is being featured over at OldSchoolNewSchoolMom.com as part of their Stigma Fighters series – You can read it in full here. ****Head on over and show some love! Stigma Fighters is a blog series where real people with mental health issues are sharing their stories in order to combat societal stigma. Human beings […]

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After my teenaged son's mental health crisis, I started offering parent & caregiver support services through my blog as well as coaching and advocacy work.

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