If you haven’t read this post, start there. So, we’re using brain imaging, now what? I think the most important impact brain imaging has had for us is mindset and expectations. When we were analyzing symptom sets before brain imaging, we were doing our best to conclude why things were happening, but his inconsistent symptoms […]
I’ve always been a skeptic when it comes to mental health diagnoses. Diagnosing by symptom cluster seems so inaccurate. Even more alarming is that those symptom clusters are often self-assessed…by a person with a mental health struggle. <scratching head> Does anyone else see the irony in diagnosing a person based on self-assessment who is a […]
We are walking through the third, in-patient psych hospitalization for our daughter in less than 6 weesk. For the last 2.5 years, we tried every trick we could to keep this from happening, but her repeated childhood traumas have left such an indelible mark on her development and personality and her coping mechanisms are so maladaptive and […]