supermaja

How do you recommend we store passwords? I don't trust password-savers online bc I don't know enough about online security to have an opinion, and my default is to not trust.

Also, what online computer security sources provide safe, reliable recommendations? I'm literate in using a computer, but I don't code, but security is very important to me. Thanks!

Ty!

You know, I object to your tone. This man and his family know more about the child's mental illness than any clinician or frickin' reddit shrink wannabe. Living with mental illness is hard enough without having to deal with this kind of attitude.

The fact is, the public needs to know about childhood mental illness and its EVERYDAY LIFE impact before Washington will ever appropriate more research funding. It is precisely because of this "don't tell anyone" crap that it is stigmatized. Unfortunately, when no one speaks up and makes it an issue, funding is not available. The only way to make it available is to raise awareness so these kids can get the treatment they need.

If you look at any childhood illness, you will see sick children brought into the public eye so they're not invisible. Kids with cancer, cystic fibrosis, muscular dystrophy, etc. are all over the media for a reason: to keep medical progress going for these kids who suffer from the disease. To suggest that this parent is somehow damaging his child's future prospects by reaching out for understanding and support only reinforces the significant obstacle of shame for these families. Shame on you.

Are you kidding me? You suffer from mental illness as well so you somehow think you know better how to treat this child? I don't care if you're mentally ill. So am I. Is either one of us an expert in mental health research and treatment because we are? No.

This family has gone to heroic efforts to keep their child home with their family and not in an institution. Just because you have had difficult experiences with mental illness (and I'm sorry about that) doesn't give you the right to project your supposed authority on everyone else in the world. You are not this child.

I am not a medical expert, but I am the mother of children who have mental health issues. The last thing on Earth parents need is to be told they somehow don't face stigma from their child's illness. That's horseshit. And that's precisely why this is a family matter, not just a patient matter, because entire families are the ones who have to deal with the fallout from poorly treated mental illness, not just patients. Get off your high horse.

Why does the donor have to do this legwork? Do we have such an oversupply of organs and tissues that the system can afford to risk people not donating because they didn't want to research this?

This makes no sense to me. I have always intended to donate my organs, but I am troubled by the possibility that my body would be cut up into pieces that people will sell for profit. I find this disturbing. So disturbing that I am now considering just a green burial with a tree planted on the spot. I haven't decided yet, but I'm considering. I just don't have the time to do the legwork, and I sure as heck don't know which info is reliable.