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		<title>Emotional Training Helps Kids Fight Depression : NPR</title>
		<link>http://lunasmom.com/archives/276</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 06:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
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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>A Push For Colleges To Prioritize Mental Health : NPR</title>
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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>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>
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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>
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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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		<title>Part 2: Denial</title>
		<link>http://lunasmom.com/archives/225</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 05:32:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Denial is an unconscious defense mechanism used by those faced with a painful reality. It is an automatic reaction in an attempt to reduce anxiety by denying thoughts, feelings, or facts that are consciously intolerable. It is common for those who are diagnosed with a life-long illness to go through periods of denial.&#8221;

In my experience, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Part 1: Diagnosis, Misdiagnosis, and Manifestations</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 05:30:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Someone recently related to me that they had received a diagnosis but weren&#8217;t sure they accepted it. I have seen this scenario played out in the bipolar community many times: &#8220;But I am not psychotic/manic/suicidal&#8221; etc. The &#8220;problem&#8221; with diagnosis, with any kind of labeling or categorization of a person&#8217;s personality or identity or deeply [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Four Part Series: Diagnosis, Denial, Treatment, and Personal Accountability</title>
		<link>http://lunasmom.com/archives/214</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 03:13:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been thinking about mental wellness over the past few days, in response to the idea that a patient might not accept a diagnosis and the role diagnosis plays in mental wellness. I&#8217;ve also been thinking about the concept of &#8220;reframing&#8221; that my therapist has me working on, and the concept of mental illness. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finagle&#8217;s Law of Dynamic Negatives</title>
		<link>http://lunasmom.com/archives/203</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:19:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Finagle&#8217;s Law of Dynamic Negatives (also known as Finagle&#8217;s corollary to Murphy&#8217;s Law) is usually rendered:

Anything that can go wrong, will—at the worst possible moment

One variant (known as O&#8217;Toole&#8217;s Corollary of Finagle&#8217;s Law) favored among hackers is a takeoff on the second law of thermodynamics (also known as entropy):


The perversity of the Universe tends towards [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turning Thought into Practice</title>
		<link>http://lunasmom.com/archives/177</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 03:52:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lunasmom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I see a therapist to help me achieve specific goals in my life. I am past the point in therapy where I want to talk about my daddy issues; I don&#8217;t need insight into my illness, I have it seeping out of my pores. What I need now are results. I know what&#8217;s broken; I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dangerous Advice Regarding Depression</title>
		<link>http://lunasmom.com/archives/165</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Happiness is about making right choices. Depression comes from making the wrong choices. We only need to change our consciousness.&#8221;
via Get rid of depressive tendencies &#124; Tickled By Life.
I came across this link as part of a professional group to which I  belong online. Someone posted it as a &#8220;great article&#8221; but imagine my horror [...]]]></description>
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