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		<title>Emotional Training Helps Kids Fight Depression : NPR</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emotional Training Helps Kids Fight Depression : NPR.
This is a brilliant effort at nipping the downward spiral in the bud when children are at their most formative, and it is definitely running parallel to what I am trying to work on with my son.

Over the last two days my son has discovered the word &#8220;hate.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Being Latino</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:14:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has taken me a long time, and having my own children, to come to terms with my identity. I had to learn how to live my life as me, the whole me, not just one aspect of me. Not just my cultural identity, but who I am at the core, the essence of my existence. How I would define myself, what it means to be me. What are my likes and dislikes, aversions and motivations. Who am I? All of it despite any box I might have to check or any box into which other people might want to put me.]]></description>
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		<title>An Open Letter to My Children</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:39:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was daydreaming just now, thinking about a conversation I had earlier with another parent. We were discussing the issues his son was having in school, how amotivated his child was and their struggle to get him to make an effort. It got me to thinking about what motivates our children to achieve and then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remembrance Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think my father lived in the shadow of a brother with whom he could never compete. This brother was well-liked, affable by all accounts. He died in combat in 1966, a casualty of the conflict in Vietnam. He died just shy of his 21st birthday and thus, he will always live and loom larger [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Push For Colleges To Prioritize Mental Health : NPR</title>
		<link>http://lunasmom.com/archives/265</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Push For Colleges To Prioritize Mental Health : NPR.
When I was diagnosed as bipolar in 1997, I was diagnosed by a college psychiatrist. My first real experience with a psychiatrist and navigating the ins and outs of having a diagnosis and trying to find a treatment plan that would allow me to function was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teen diagnoses her own disease in science class &#8211; CNN.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:13:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Teen diagnoses her own disease in science class &#8211; CNN.com.
This is the ultimate in being your own best advocate. When you can&#8217;t find answer, continue looking, even if you have to go it alone. I think it especially highlights the need for quality control measures in pathology and medicine. We are allowed to routinely get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gay soldier: Don’t fire me – amFIX &#8211; CNN.com Blogs</title>
		<link>http://lunasmom.com/archives/250</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 04:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gay soldier: Don’t fire me – amFIX &#8211; CNN.com Blogs.
This isn&#8217;t a GLBT blog, per se, but in the last few weeks it&#8217;s where my head has been, as more states struggle with the idea of equality. This eloquent and poignant letter from an Army serviceman who was fired for honesty leaves me outraged, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maine Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage</title>
		<link>http://lunasmom.com/archives/248</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 17:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maine Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage : NPR.
I hope full marriage equality happens in my lifetime.
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		<title>Part 4: The Bootstrap Conundrum &amp; Personal Accountability</title>
		<link>http://lunasmom.com/archives/242</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 02:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lunasmom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have witnessed first hand the bootstrap conundrum. There is a prevailing attitude in our country that people who have problems need to learn to pick themselves up by their bootstraps, snap out of it, and &#8220;just do it.&#8221; A typical bipolar response to this attitude, however, is &#8220;how do you pick yourself up by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Part 3: Treatment, Adherence, Crisis, and Stigma</title>
		<link>http://lunasmom.com/archives/234</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 05:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lunasmom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In ye olde days, doctors used to call it &#8220;compliance.&#8221; You were prescribed medication and if you took your meds, you were compliant. If, for whatever reason, you did not take your meds, you were labeled &#8220;non-compliant&#8221; with all the attendant bad juju that went with it. Non-compliant was fairly well synonymous with &#8220;difficult&#8221; or [...]]]></description>
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