By Caroline Miller
The fear and avoidance they inspire can be seriously impairing.
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Often the worst part of living with a mental illness is not the illness itself, but the societal shunning that results from it.
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Dr. Hallowell shares how mental illness affected his family and why stigma is the biggest obstacle to people getting the help they need.
Each brain finds its own special way—that’s the message in this delightful, colorful story by America’s foremost expert on learning and childhood development. Edward Hallowell, M.D., is a noted psychiatrist and teacher and a leading authority on attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder.
With decades of experience working with ADD children, Dr. Edward Hallowell has long argued that ADD is too often misunderstood, mistreated, and mislabeled as a “disability.” Now he teams up with top academic ADD researcher Peter S. Jensen, M.D.
Here, at last, is a book brimming with the good news of raising children—the basic reassuring news about happiness and unconditional love, about enduring family connections and kids who grow up right. Edward M. Hallowell, M.D.