True North Counseling and Development wants to help you celebrate Mental Health Awareness Month.
Why celebrate?
Because good mental health provides a foundation for living lives with the following characteristics:
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Medication, Adjustment to the Diagnosis, Psychotherapy, Skills, Community
These are the areas that need to be addressed when you receive a diagnosis of ADHD:
MEDICATION
When doctors give us a diagnosis, they usually prescribe a treatment as well - usually medications. Seldom do they educate us about the diagnosis.
While the condition may be the same, the experience may be different for women and call for different responses in treatment.
Girls and women meet the same criteria for an ADHD diagnosis; however, women may have different experiences than boys or men.
Women are more likely to have ADHD, inattentive type, while boys and men often have ADHD, with hyperactivity.
You can find a lot of information about ADHD, and it can be confusing.
Is it a fad? Is it real?
Do adults have ADHD or just kids?
How do I know if I have it?
They say you have to have had it in childhood, but what if you weren’t diagnosed with it then?
Why are so many adults, especially women, getting diagnosed later in life?
This brief summary will address these questions and concerns.
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Holidays and other special days evoke memories, and memories for those who are grieving may bring pain. As we enter into this time of the year, with the friends and family gatherings that are so much a part of life, we at True North wanted to share some ideas about how to get through the rough times that may be ahead for you.
THERE ARE NO RULES TO GRIEF. EVERYONE GRIEVES THEIR OWN WAY….
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A brief look at loss and grief
Grief is a normal response to significant, meaningful disruptions and changes:
Loss through death of a loved one.
Loss through changes in relationships—divorce, separation, end of friendship, changes in work situations.
Loss through physical and other changes that come from illnesses, accidents, and aging.
Life transitions such as retirement, aging, empty nest, relocations.
Loss through change in spiritual/existential values.
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Grief is the sorrow or sadness we feel when we experience a loss. Mourning is the process by which we adapt to the loss. While grief is usually a normal reaction and response, our mourning process is influenced by our family and cultural beliefs and traditions.
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I grew up in Kansas where the people who tamed the prairie knew all kinds of hardships. They faced an often-brutal climate of hot summer days, dust-filled winds, and winter nights that chilled them to the bone. The long distances between family farms or between small towns led to lives of isolation and self-reliance.
They shared a sense of community and purpose and supported each other when trouble came. Much of their strength came from belief in the sanctity of the individual. And much of the support came as a bolstering of the spirit to stand up, stand for, stand against, stand alone, and just keep ‘standing it.’
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