Deconstructing Stigma: My Story by Tracey Maxfield

Peter Rosenberger, author and syndicated radio host of Caregivers with Hope

Escaping the Rabbit Hole is a frank and often piercing journey of a painful journey with debilitating depression. Although caring for countless patients throughout her nursing career, Tracey Maxfield came face to face with the one patient who needed her most: herself! Her story and brutal honesty helps blaze a

May 23, 2018 No Comments

Mental Health

Dissociative Identity Disorder in Children and Teenagers

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPqhUs4mtPs[/embedyt] What do The Three Faces of Eve, Split, the Fight Club, Glass and Psycho have in common? They are all famous movies where one of the main characters had multiple personalities; but is it real? For years, many psychiatrists argued that multiple personality disorder was not real, in

September 16, 2019 16 Comments

Turning the world on its axis – only the perspective of the person living with dementia can illuminate our viewpoint byLeah Bisiani MHlthSc., DipBus., RN.1., Dementia Consultant

Reprinted with kind permission Togetherness and altruism: Dementia may challenge us as care partners because of the fundamental complexity of the condition, however it is time we regain our focus, first and foremost, and look towards the person living with dementia, instead of our habitually, self-indulgent tendency to create situations

June 30, 2018 No Comments

Bullying

How to help a child/teenager who is being bullied. How to deal with a bully

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gm-l_9yEIU[/embedyt] In blogs #16, #17 and #18, we discussed the different types of bullying behaviour, who is a bully, the circle of bullying and signs a child/teenager is being bullied. Today, we will explain how to deal with a bully, and how to help the child/teenager who is being

October 21, 2019 26 Comments

Financial, legal & health care planning

‘Dementia Aware…what you need to know’ about financial, legal & health care planning In B.C., approximately 70,000 people have dementia, and sadly, this number will only continue to grow as the proportion of seniors in B.C. population increases over the next 10 to 15 years. Here in the Okanagan, we

January 26, 2017 No Comments

Non-Suicidal Self Injury (NSSI) in Children and Teenagers

Mental Health

Blog #4: Non-Suicidal Self Injury (NSSI) in Children and Teenagers

Self-harm or Non-Suicidal Self Injury (NSSI) is a deliberate, self-inflicted injury to body tissue resulting in damage, but without any suicidal intent. The injury can be superficial e.g. skin tear, bruising or can be disfiguring with subsequent scarring to skin. There is some debate amongst healthcare professionals about whether

July 8, 2019 17 Comments

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