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		<title>If I&#8217;d Only Known</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 14:36:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like most Americans, I&#8217;m saddened by the tragedy in Arizona this past weekend. I&#8217;m praying for families who have lost a loved one, and for those who are injured and healing. Also, I&#8217;m specifically praying for the parents of the shooter, Jared Loughner. My husband and I heard the news about the shooting later than [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=family-4-family.com&amp;blog=4336281&amp;post=216&amp;subd=family4family&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 12:22:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Stewart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The World Health Organization reports indicates that depression can be brought on by the change of season. It has been postulated that decrease sunlight may be one cause for seasonal depression, sometimes called Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). These seasonal patterns are also present in those with bi-polar disorder. More manic episodes occur in the summer [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=family-4-family.com&amp;blog=4336281&amp;post=175&amp;subd=family4family&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Phone Call Away</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 15:45:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Stewart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My son had been without medication for about a year. Despite that worrisome situation, he at least appeared to be stable.  Then the decline started. This time it&#8217;s a slow setback, like lava moving down the side of a volcano. I know that at any moment it can burst into flames. So far, it hasn&#8217;t. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=family-4-family.com&amp;blog=4336281&amp;post=162&amp;subd=family4family&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Recovery &#8211; New Research</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:47:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Stewart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I read the National Institute of Mental Health&#8217;s (NIMH) recent research, I sighed, “It&#8217;s about time.” It&#8217;s about time to look at mental illness from a recovery standpoint. It&#8217;s about time to recognize that treatment needs to begin with the first symptom episodes. It&#8217;s about time . . . family members seemed to intuitively [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=family-4-family.com&amp;blog=4336281&amp;post=148&amp;subd=family4family&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Start Fresh</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Stewart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[January is over, so it doesn&#8217;t seem like the beginning of the year any longer. Why would I even be talking about a fresh start? It&#8217;s never too late; you can start fresh, make new resolutions any time. For many of us our resolutions have come, and gone. Each year on January 1, many of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=family-4-family.com&amp;blog=4336281&amp;post=141&amp;subd=family4family&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s About You</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:03:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Stewart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the hardest steps for a family is accepting that a loved one has a mental illness. The next hardest is accepting that you are also a “victim” of the illness. I don’t like using the word “victim;” it is such an overused word. Mental illness, like so many other biological illnesses, affects family [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=family-4-family.com&amp;blog=4336281&amp;post=137&amp;subd=family4family&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Anosognosia &#8211; Not Home for the Holidays</title>
		<link>http://family-4-family.com/2009/12/01/anosognosia-not-home-for-the-holidays/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:36:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Stewart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My son attended our family Thanksgiving gathering. It was good to see him; but that’s about all that happened. He didn’t interact much, only responding when asked questions. Kept away from the crowd of people. Ate little. He was here, but he wasn’t. It’s not uncommon for our ill loved ones to be mentally and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=family-4-family.com&amp;blog=4336281&amp;post=122&amp;subd=family4family&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Holiday Resources</title>
		<link>http://family-4-family.com/2009/11/18/holiday-resources/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:07:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Stewart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How often do you enter November with vision of an old-fashioned, family holiday? &#8220;This year will be different,&#8221; you say to yourself and any family members who will listen. I&#8217;ve given up this fantasy, and choose instead to be content with a Griswold Christmas. (If you haven&#8217;t seen National Lampoon&#8217;s Christmas Vacation, rent it now [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=family-4-family.com&amp;blog=4336281&amp;post=120&amp;subd=family4family&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s The Holidays, Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Stewart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(This is the beginning of a series about helping our loved ones and ourselves through the stresses of the holidays.) It’s that time of year again: The Holidays. The time from Thanksgiving until New Year’s Day is probably the most stressful period in America. Expectations are high; reality is low. The pressure to perform has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=family-4-family.com&amp;blog=4336281&amp;post=100&amp;subd=family4family&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Coping: Self-Care</title>
		<link>http://family-4-family.com/2009/08/06/coping-self-care/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:35:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Stewart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ One of my first questions when our son was returning home after a suicide attempt was, “How do we ‘watch’’ him?” I didn’t get the answer I wanted: “You don’t.”

 I was prepared to have a 24-hour watch, and do it all myself if I had to. That was neither possible nor practical. In the emotion of the moment, I wasn’t thinking; I was reacting. I didn’t, couldn’t, think about myself.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=family-4-family.com&amp;blog=4336281&amp;post=94&amp;subd=family4family&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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