This is Normal: A podcast about youth mental health
USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
9 episodes
4 months ago
At a live event hosted by Marquette University and USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin, young people shared their perspectives on their own mental health struggles, and what is needed to address the issue.
Panelists were Parker Adams, Amaii Collins, Alexandra Schmidt and Jesse Pennington-Cross. The discussion was moderated by Rory Linnane of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Read more at http://www.jsonline.com/kidsincrisis. You can watch the video of the full Marquette event at facebook.com/postcrescent.
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At a live event hosted by Marquette University and USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin, young people shared their perspectives on their own mental health struggles, and what is needed to address the issue.
Panelists were Parker Adams, Amaii Collins, Alexandra Schmidt and Jesse Pennington-Cross. The discussion was moderated by Rory Linnane of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Read more at http://www.jsonline.com/kidsincrisis. You can watch the video of the full Marquette event at facebook.com/postcrescent.
'Radical acceptance' helps 12-year-old girl with Tourette's syndrome, OCD
This is Normal: A podcast about youth mental health
20 minutes
7 years ago
'Radical acceptance' helps 12-year-old girl with Tourette's syndrome, OCD
Jesse Pennington-Cross has Tourette's syndrome, obsessive-compulsive disorder and depression. She's 12 years old, and her family has struggled to find help for her, at one point trying an intensive behavioral modification program that involved having Jesse wear a timer on her ankle. It made her miserable, and her family too.
"It was heartbreaking," her mother said, "to realize I've been treating my child kind of like a trainable dog."
Today, they're trying a new approach. They call it "radical acceptance."
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This is Normal: A podcast about youth mental health
At a live event hosted by Marquette University and USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin, young people shared their perspectives on their own mental health struggles, and what is needed to address the issue.
Panelists were Parker Adams, Amaii Collins, Alexandra Schmidt and Jesse Pennington-Cross. The discussion was moderated by Rory Linnane of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Read more at http://www.jsonline.com/kidsincrisis. You can watch the video of the full Marquette event at facebook.com/postcrescent.
