As the holidays come upon us officially now, I just wanted to pause for a few minutes and wish you a Happy Thanksgiving.
I also wanted to take this opportunity to thank you personally, our readers, for your continued support in helping us become one of the largest independent mental health websites online today. We’re proud that we’re independent and not a part of some corporate machine that spits out recycled mental health information syndicated from others. And we’re happy that you recognize the value in such information, too!
On behalf of the volunteers, the staff, writers, editors, moderators, and administrators here at Psych Central, I want to wish you a very warm and peaceful Thanksgiving holiday this season. I hope yours is filled with family and friends, and, if nothing else, peace. Thank you and take care.
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“Happy Thanksgiving!”
Being Thankful is what this holiday is all about. Many
issues with family and the social environment that we live in skirt over what it means to be thankful because we have so much! How do we teach our children, and the next generation to be thankful, when we don’t provide them with a focus to understand the conepts. There are issues to be addressed here. Coments?
I don’t think people can truly understand the meaning of appreciating something until they’ve experienced a similar loss. We have nothing to compare what we have to what we don’t have unless we don’t have it any more.
That doesn’t mean you have to become homeless to appreciate having shelter for yourself or your family. It just means it’s harder to feel those feelings unless you know someone first-hand who’s had to deal with this stuff, or you yourself have.
So I’m not sure “thankfulness” can be taught until someone’s lived a little bit of life, and explored life outside of one’s own limited social or economic-class circle. One can do that directly, or though other means such as volunteering to help those in need.
Just some thoughts….
Hello, I just took your test for ADHD for myself as friends of mine have kids who are diagnosed with ADHD and I was finding so many similarities in my own behavior and my kids. I scored 28 on the short one and 93 on the long one. I actually value this unique quality in myself as I am able to see something and create it quickly and accurately. My kids are both this way too. I don’t like the frustration that goes with ADHD or the anger and I constantly work on ways to be calm and patient and help my kids learn to behave better too. We all really enjoy learning and the ability to learn easily and quickly. I think that people should be kinder to people with ADHD instead of labeling us as defective. I see us as being unique and amazing. And if kids with this uniqueness were treated with high regard to their ability to grasp information it would change the outcome of their frustration. Instead of feeling like they were stuffing things up all the time they would feel loved and valued. I would also like to thank you for this site. At first I was laughing hysterically because everything in my life suddenly clicked, then I began to cry as I realized that I was understood. So I am thankful today for being understood. Thanks
Just out of curiosity, I wonder how you can thank somany of us ‘personally’ in a message posted on a website. Better do a study on this one!
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