MORE 'MENTAL-HEALTH' POSTS
Yesterday TLT celebrated 4 years as a blog but the truth is, I haven’t been very celebratory this week. In fact, this week has been one of the hardest of my life. Not the hardest, just one of them. And this week I had to have one of the most difficult conversations with my almost […]
Generally speaking, I save my rants for Twitter and not blogging. I try to be more measured and professional in blogging (or writing reviews in other places). That said, yesterday while reading Gayle Forman’s I Was Here, I had some thoughts of the ranting variety that I shared. You can see them in the Storify […]
Last night I came home from working at my library with a DVD in hand to watch with my family. It was 10 o’clock, but it’s one of our last few nights where we can stay up late so I went to slip it in. As the DVD player opened, a movie sat inside of […]
List of Lists: Teens and Mental Health Resources
Anxiety, depression, Eating Disorders, Mental Health, Mental Illness, OCD, PTSD
|May is Mental Health Awareness Month According to the NCCP, approximately 20% of adolescents have a diagnosed mental health issue. Most mental health disorders begin to present in the adolescent years. Suicide is the 3rd leading cause of death among adolescents. According to NAMI, 50% of children who present with a mental illness will drop […]
Bibliotherapy: What if we read more? (guest post by Amianne Bailey)
Aliteracy, Bibliotherapy, Compassion, Mental Health, Newtown, Out of My Mind, R. J. Palacio, Sean Beaudoin, Sharon Draper, Wonder
|Because this is one of the best posts ever about aliteracy, and by an amazing friend of mine, we are re-running it today for Reluctant Readers week This post originally appeared on TLT on December 20, 2012 “If every person in this room made it a rule that wherever you are, whenever you can, you […]
The Murder of a Shopping Bag Lady: mental illness in three acts
Brian Kates, Mental Health, Mental Illness, Professional Development, Robison Wells, Sandy Hook Connecticut, Teen Issues, The Murder of a Shopping Bag Lady
|Like many of you, the events of Friday, December 12th has me thinking and reflecting on the world that we live in. It also has me thinking about my kids, not just the kids that I have given birth to – but to every kid I have loved along the way as a librarian, because […]
How Mental Illness Tried and Failed to Ruin My Life by Robison Wells
Feedback, Mental Health, Robison Wells, Teen Issues, Variant
|Variant by Robison Wells was one of my favorite books of 2011 and I became an instant fan of Robison Wells. It’s a book that has one of those “What the Heck” just happened moments. If you read my previous post, If You Give a Geek a Computer, you know that at some point I […]
My early years growing up in Sacramento were filled with lots of confusion and fear. At the time, I knew something wasn’t quite right with my father but the one time I did confine in a friend? I was labeled ‘bad’ and a bad example. Only later did I found out that most of the […]
Book Review: The Butterfly Clues by Kate Ellison
Book Reviews, Kate Ellison, Mental Health, Mental Illness, OCD, The Butterfly Clues
|The Butterfly Clues is a deceptive book, but in really good ways. I first stumbled across this title while looking for new mysteries to add to my collection for this year’s summer reading theme. And make no mistake, there is a mystery underlying this tale, but at its core it is really a complex, gut […]
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