by Pete Quily on August 3, 2009
by Pete Quily on July 10, 2009
Eileen Bailey has a good post on how to talk to your children about ADHD at Healthcentral
Young children view the world in terms of them. They may blame themselves for the ADHD, thinking they have done something wrong. Make sure you let your child know ADHD is not their fault. If you, your spouse, or another family member has also been diagnosed, let your child know.
It’s also good to mention the positives of having ADHD as well so they don’t think it’s only pathology, and they’re more motivated to deal with the negatives so they can spend more time focusing on developing the strengths of ADHD. How you frame ADHD is very important because that’s how they will likely internalize that frame. Read more...
by Pete Quily on May 16, 2009
The next CHADD Vancouver meeting is, Tuesday May 19th.
Topic: Feeding Your Child who has ADHD
Speaker: Joy Kiddie, Registered Dietician. She’s done research on ADHD and nutrition with Dr. Margaret Weiss, head of the BC ADHD Clinic at Children’s Hospital. Here’s her website
Date: May 20th
Time: 6.30-8.30pm
Location: 2450 Ontario St. Raven Song Community Health Centre (between Broadway & West 8th Ave)
Joy has ADHD and has ADHD children. She’s spoken before at 2 CHADD Vancouver meetings before. She know’s her topic, is an engaging speaker, and we’ve had good audience feedback.
The next Vancouver Adult ADD support group meeting will be Tues June 2nd topic TBA.
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by Pete Quily on May 12, 2009
Update3 The Vancouver Sun today Wed may 13th 09 has linked to this post and covered the story on page A11. Also The Victoria Times Colonist is also linking to this post on their story in todays paper on page B7.
The penalty for breaking the law could include up to a $10,000 fine and a year in jail. “The penalties are up to the chief electoral officer’s discretion,” said Ken Faris ( Elections B.C. spokesman). “Since the B.C. Liberals responded to our request (to take the offending tweets down), we’re not going to pursue the issue any further.”
Liberal spokesman Chad Pederson said the party removed the items after being contacted by Elections B.C. Read more...
by Pete Quily on May 2, 2009
I’m restarting the Vancouver Adult ADD Support Group, the local Adult ADHD support group that I started and ran for 3 years until we became homeless and the group stopped. It’s the adult group of CHADD Vancouver, which I’m on the board of.
We have found a new home for the group, the old home has become available, Thanks for the search & persistence Ed! Thanks also to those that were willing to help out with the group.
The first meeting will be Tuesday May 5th from 6.30 to 8.30pm
Location: Our old home Ravensong Community Healthcare Center, 2450 Ontario st, near main and Broadway, map on the group’s webpage.
Discussion Leader: Pete Quily
Topic: Direction of the group. Read more...
by Pete Quily on April 25, 2009
THere are the notes and the links for my presentation Adhd – Busting The Myths, Breaking The Stigma, Showing Reality, One Post And Tweet At A Time for Mental Health Camp Vancouver April 25, 2009. I won’t be able to cover all this material during the session so I have some extra info here. Tell me what you think of it in the comments.
Here are the topics I’ll cover.
1. Defining ADHD
2. ADHD Impairments
3. Co-existing or Co-morbid conditions that go along with ADHD
4. Costs of ADHD
5. Positives of ADHD
6. Famous people with ADHD
7. Myths about ADHD
8. Social media
9. Some ADHD links
1. Defining ADHD
Diagnosis of ADHD as a child
Adult ADHD 5 minute screening test from Harvard & W.H.O. Read more...
by Pete Quily on April 25, 2009
This is for a presentation I’m doing at Mental Health Camp Vancouver (a conference combining social media with mental health) called ADHD – Busting the myths, breaking the stigma, showing reality, one post and tweet at a time. While ADHD is especially stigmatized as the orphan of mental health conditions, especially Adult ADHD, it’s not the only one that suffers stigma.
12 Ways to Fight Mental Health Stigma With Social Media
Arranged from more anonymous to more personal, and less effort to more effort. There’s a choice for everyone.
1. Click on a factually correct, non stigmatizing mental health article, or personal story via a blog post, tweet, podcast, YouTube video, Facebook update, Friendfeed, web forum etc. Result will traffic to the site/account, encouragement for the creator to continue to create, possible revenue and good for SEO just from that one simple easy click. Read more...
