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Searching for Normal: The Story of a Girl Gone Too Soon

From One Parent to Another   (Excerpt from) Karen Meadows, Dec. 09, 2016, author of “Searching for Normal: The Story of a Girl Gone Too Soon.” My daughter lost her battle with mental illness. Through this heartbreaking experience, I’ve learned a lot from my mistakes. …and I hope that even one of these suggestions might prevent another lost battle. Accept […]

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Emergency Department Crisis Care

  In Crisis – Out of Room is a report of a very challenging crisis, presented by Ross Jones in the form of an article, video, interactive feature. Jones’ exclusive reports on a Scripps News investigation that “reveals psychiatric boarding doesn’t discriminate by families’ race, income or whether they are insured, and there are no […]

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The Thoughts Inside Our Heads

“I want to trip inside your head Spend the day there To hear the things you haven’t said And see what you might see… …I want to see your thoughts take shape and walk right out.” (Bono, U2, Miracle Drug) I attended a wonderfully enlightening seminar yesterday at OHSU in Portland on something called Mentalizing […]