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April 2009 A book recommendation from NAMI National

Helping Teens Who Cut: Understanding and Ending Self-Injury by Michael Hollander

Here are excerpts from the Amazon description:
This is an extremely thoughtful, wise, and empathic guide for the parents of teens caught up in the painful and complex web of self-injury. Both down to earth and practical, the book draws on substantial clinical experience and the latest scientific data. Dr. Hollander takes the mystery out of this confusing but all-too-prevalent behavior, debunks the many myths surrounding it, and deftly delineates state-of-the-art treatment principles...Dr. Hollander manages to take a very complex problem and describe it in a language accessible to teens, parents, and those working with them.

April 2009 New Newsletter about Mental Health Issues Worth a look:

The Recovery Reporter from the Illinois Department of Human Services.

Research Report: Brain Disorders and Father's Age

The Father Factor: How Dad's Age Increases Baby's Risk of Mental Illness. Could becoming a father after age 40 raise the risks that your children will have a mental illness?

New book offers immediate help for bipolar sufferers:

Dr. Joyce Burland recently added “You Me and Apollo: Hope Beyond Bipolar Disorder” to the bibliographical listing for the Family to Family Program

New book explores early-onset bipolar disorder:

Connecting the Pieces: The Discovery of Early-Onset Bipolar Disorder by Diane Kratt and her son, Ethan Martinez (age 12)

Book Review:

I am Not Sick I Don't Need Help: How to Help Someone with Mental Illness Accept Treatment by Dr. Xavier Amador.

Reviewed by Hugh Brady, April 2008

Book Review:

Bipolar Disorder for Dummies by Candida Fink and Joe Kraynak

Reviewed by Don K, December 2006

I Want To Be A Better Person By Tom Wooten www.bipolarinorder.org

Release from the Hospital - Getting Home Is Just the Beginning

When your family member returns home from the hospital, it is important to realize that he or she is not “cured” and can not simply resume a normal life. Discharge from the hospital indicates that your family member is improving and is no longer a danger to self or others, but this is just the first step towards recovery.
This article discusses how recovery progresses in many areas of life.