While I very much appreciate many of the points captured in Dr. Young’s Detroit Free Press oped, “Making it easier to identify and treat the next Adam Lanza,” I struggle with the title and it’s somewhat sensationalistic slant. We all know that an infinitesimal number of children go on to commit such violently tragic acts […]
In response to the video “We Are Better Than This“: We can be better than this. We must be better than this. Gun control will not solve crime but it will create a safer environment and drive a necessary national conversation on making it easier to obtain psychiatric services than an a gun.
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When a child has a heart attack a hospital bed, doctors and treatment are a given. When a child is in a psychiatric crisis and in need of in-patient psychiatric services, better luck next-time, “you are not suicidal enough.” We will not evolve as a nation until we research and treat psychiatric illnesses like any
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While I sincerely appreciate Part 2 of Susan’s Resko’s blog about Adam Lanza, it does not go nearly far enough, and does not even touch upon the failure of our public education system to educate children with the early onset of psychiatric illness. She is correct that we need to stop blaming parents and medications. What
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On August 28, 2012 I ignited the conversation about children with Asperger’s Syndrome, PDD-NOS, Non-Verbal Learning Disability, Central Auditory Processing Disorder, Bipolar Disorder, and how these children are egregiously underserved in MI and across the U.S. I spoke to how the IDEA does not recognize them and neither do a majority of states. How too many
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