Procrastination!

TED Talk - The Mind of a Master Procrastinator

What If My Child Is Suicidal?

Posted by Brad Reedy, Owner & Clinical Director at Evoke Therapy Programs on September 05, 2016

Someone told me not to write on this subject unless I was prepared to write another book. They suggested, “Nothing you write, no matter how much, will be enough to answer the questions a grieving parent can ask.” Many reports suggest the greatest tragedy that a person can experience—which becomes compounded if the death is the result of a suicide—is the death of a child. As a father of four, I cannot imagine losing one of my children, and I cannot imagine how I would manage to go on with that kind of grief. I assume this is a wound from which I would never fully recover. When I am asked the question about how far a parent should go to essentially ensure their child’s survival, I cannot answer it. No therapist or expert can ever answer that question. Even if we did, and the parents followed our advice exactly, yet their child still took his or her own life, then the parents would likely blame both us and themselves for not doing more.

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How changes in today's marijuana make it more addictive...

Listen to this, from CBC Radio show The Current:

How changes in today's marijuana make it more addictive

http://www.cbc.ca/listen/shows/the-current/segment/10924557

Legalized marijuana is on its way next year. And one of the big questions looming is what it will mean for Canadian teens. A CBC investigation looks into the potency of today's pot.

Thank you Rand Teed for this gem...

“Starting over is not a sign of failure. I look at it this way: A person enrolled at the wrong life college, underwent some hellish classes, passed a lot of difficult tests, majored in perspective, and a minored in minor things. However, they graduated at the top of their class and are now qualified to teach a course titled, How Not To Do That Ever Again.”  Shanon L. Alder

CCSA - Clearing the Smoke on Cannabis, Sept 2016

Highlights – An Update

This document highlights findings from a series of reports that reviews the effects

of cannabis use on various aspects of human functioning and development. Specifically, the reports address: Chronic Use and Cognitive Functioning and

Mental Health; Maternal Cannabis Use during Pregnancy; Cannabis Use and Driving; Respiratory Effects of Cannabis Smoking; and Medical Use of Cannabis

and Cannabinoids. This series is intended for a broad audience, including health professionals, policy makers and researchers.

What is it?

• Cannabis is a greenish or brownish material consisting of the dried flowering, fruiting tops and leaves of the cannabis plant Cannabis Sativa.
  
• Hashish or cannabis resin is the dried brown or black resinous secretion coating the flowering tops of the cannabis plant.
  
• Cannabis is known by many names including marijuana, weed, hash—and others.
  
• Cannabis is most often smoked in a “joint.” It is also smoked in a water pipe or “bong,” where the smoke is drawn through water to cool it and lter out small particles before inhaling. It can also be vaporized in an e-cigarette or consumed in edible products.
  
• Currently in Canada, licensed producers and registered individuals can supply cannabis for medical purposes in fresh, dried and oil forms (Health Canada, 2016).
  Who’s using it?
  After alcohol, cannabis is the most widely used psychoactive substance in Canada.
  

• About 11% of all Canadians aged 15 and older have used cannabis at least once in the past year according to the 2013 Canadian Tobacco, Alcohol and Drugs Survey (CTADS) (Statistics Canada, 2015).
  
• In the CTADS report for 2013, about 28% of those who used cannabis in the past three months reported that they used it every day or almost every day (Statistics Canada, 2015). 
  
  
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