38 min
05: What to Say The Mental Health Mom
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- Mental Health
It can be hard to know how much to share about your kid’s mental illness, and what to say when you receive comments or advice. In this episode, Paul and I talk about some approaches that worked for us when talking to family, friends, neighbours, and work colleagues.
1:35 - Update on Malika
3:26 - Introducing the topic - how to talk about it when you have a kid with mental illness. Balancing openness with considerations such as privacy and respect and why we feel we can be more open now than in the past.
9:35 - Some general suggestions about what to say when you receive comments or advice.
14:25 - Talking to family.
21:20 - Talking to friends
25:25 - Talking to the neighbours.
29:50 - A conversation about work and some general wrap-up comments.
Email: mhmompodcast@gmail.com
Twitter: @MHMomPodcast
Artwork by Alex Costanzo
It can be hard to know how much to share about your kid’s mental illness, and what to say when you receive comments or advice. In this episode, Paul and I talk about some approaches that worked for us when talking to family, friends, neighbours, and work colleagues.
1:35 - Update on Malika
3:26 - Introducing the topic - how to talk about it when you have a kid with mental illness. Balancing openness with considerations such as privacy and respect and why we feel we can be more open now than in the past.
9:35 - Some general suggestions about what to say when you receive comments or advice.
14:25 - Talking to family.
21:20 - Talking to friends
25:25 - Talking to the neighbours.
29:50 - A conversation about work and some general wrap-up comments.
Email: mhmompodcast@gmail.com
Twitter: @MHMomPodcast
Artwork by Alex Costanzo
38 min