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You'll never escape your parents, fish. You carry them with you.  |
I may well do, but that doesn't mean I want them deciding the level of dangerous and untested drugs I'm forced to take.
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Actually I think of interpersonal aspects of mental illness as going way beyond parents. I would extend it out to the family, community, society, country - theoretically, the whole world. All kinds of social and economic and cultural things can impact on mental health and increase or decrease the amount of mental illness.
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That could very well be true, though I think the negative impact (for me) of being treated was far, far greater than anything I was going through.
Hopefully the court will agree with me and give me money.
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I'll warn you - there's lots to hate there.  Beyond Consequences was kind of a response to some of the attachment therapies that are out there for adoptive children with RAD. It's also more than a little a way for its promoters to make a lot of money with social work degrees.
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Yeah, once I dug around in it, it looked alarming. There are some interesting ideas though, like you say. I don't know much about children - never mind adopting them - so I'm not sure how else to evaluate it.
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