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Monthly Archives: October 2009

Have you ever heard of PANDAS? Not the animal.

October 21, 2009   admin   No comments

I was fortunate enough to have this article forwarded to me from the Thrive blog. It is a blog put together by the Chicago’s Children’s Hospital.

Today we posted an article on our pediatric blog, Thrive, on one mother’s story about her son’s diagnosis of PANDAS, a controversial neuropsychiatric disorder thought to be related to routine childhood strep infectionsI came upon your website and thought this article may be of interest to your readers.

Eleven-year-old Chris Heckmann was healthy and in good spirits when his mother, Maura, left him with friends for the night. But when she returned, 24 hours later, her son was unrecognizable. Stricken with paranoia, he refused to eat and paced around the family room, fear in his eyes.

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Fear vs. Anxiety

October 12, 2009   admin   No comments

What is the real distinction between fear and anxiety? Read about it in this article in Psychology Today.

Most of us make some distinction between fear and anxiety. Sometimes it’s merely a matter of linguistics. We say we have a fear of something (flying, aging) and anxiety about something (flying, aging).

Sometimes we distinguish the two by our bodily experience. I’m sure you’re aware that the neurobiology of fear is different than the neurobiology of anxiety. The sudden re-arrangement of your guts when an intruder holds a knife to your back (fear), is different from the mild nausea, dizziness and butterflies in your stomach as you’re about to make a difficult phone call (anxiety).

Anxiety is also the word of choice to describe lingering apprehension, or a chronic sense of worry or tension, the sources of which may be totally unclear.

But the notion that “fear” always connotes something bigger and stronger than “anxiety” breaks down in real life experience.
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Did you know Robert Munsch struggles with Bipolar Disorder

October 12, 2009   admin   No comments

I’ve read his stories countless times to my children. I’ve had them read back to me by my son and laughed ourselves silly. The talented author I just discovered suffers from a mental illness to. In this great article from the Globe and Mail you’ll read about how he has found his place through bipolar disorder. I applaud him for his desire to share his experience with the public.

In the book Purple, Green and Yellow by bestselling author Robert Munsch, a girl named Brigid draws on her entire body with “super-indelible-never-come-off-till-you’re-dead-and-maybe-even-later colouring markers” and, when she washes, is rendered invisible, much to her mother’s horror.

“‘Don’t worry,’ said Brigid, and she coloured herself all over till she looked perfect. Even better than before,” Mr. Munsch writes.

“ Purple, Green and Yellow is my take on depression,” the real-life Mr. Munsch says in an interview. “That’s what it was like for me: You want to kill yourself, but you have to be funny. You colour yourself for the world.”

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Happy Thanksgiving everyone

October 10, 2009   admin   1 Comment

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.
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