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Anger Management: Effective Solutions at Reno Psychotherapy

Anger is a natural emotion, but when left unmanaged, it can lead to destructive outcomes in personal relationships, work environments, and even physical health. Learning to control and express anger in a healthy way is crucial for maintaining balance and harmony in one’s life. At Reno Psychotherapy, we offer effective anger management techniques that help individuals navigate their emotions and regain control over their reactions.

Understanding Anger

Anger is a powerful emotional response to a perceived threat, frustration, or injustice. It can manifest in a variety of ways, ranging from mild irritation to intense rage. While anger itself is not inherently negative, how we express and manage it can have a profound impact on our mental and physical well-being.

Chronic anger can result in negative consequences such as:

Relationship difficulties: Anger can cause strain between partners, friends, family members, and colleagues.

Health problems: Persistent anger is linked to health issues such as high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, and weakened immune function.

Impaired decision-making: Reacting impulsively while angry often leads to poor judgment and regrettable actions.

Mental health concerns: Unresolved anger can contribute to anxiety, depression, and other mood disorders.

How Reno Psychotherapy Can Help

At Reno Psychotherapy, we recognize that managing anger is a learned skill. Our therapy sessions focus on empowering individuals with tools to process their anger healthily and constructively. Here are some of the key methods we use to help clients with anger management:

1. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a highly effective approach for anger management. Through CBT, individuals identify negative thought patterns that trigger anger and learn to challenge these thoughts. CBT helps clients reframe their thinking, enabling them to react to situations more calmly and rationally.

2. Mindfulness and Relaxation Techniques

Mindfulness practices, such as deep breathing, progressive muscle relaxation, and meditation, can significantly reduce anger by promoting a state of awareness and calm. Clients at Reno Psychotherapy are taught how to be present in the moment, helping them step back from the intense emotional reaction and regain control before acting impulsively.

3. Emotional Regulation Skills

Anger often arises from underlying emotions like frustration, fear, or sadness. In therapy, individuals learn to recognize these emotions early on, which can help prevent them from escalating into anger. Building emotional regulation skills involves becoming aware of triggers and practicing coping mechanisms to handle difficult situations constructively.

4. Communication Skills

Effective communication is essential to managing anger. People often become angry because they feel misunderstood or unable to express their needs. Through therapy, clients learn how to communicate more assertively—expressing themselves clearly and respectfully, which can lead to healthier interactions and less conflict.

5. Identifying and Addressing Underlying Issues

Anger often stems from deeper issues such as unresolved trauma, anxiety, or depression. Our therapists work with clients to identify the root causes of their anger, addressing these issues to prevent anger from becoming a defense mechanism. By understanding these underlying factors, individuals can take proactive steps toward healing and emotional well-being.

The Benefits of Anger Management Therapy

By working with a therapist at Reno Psychotherapy, individuals can expect to experience:

Improved relationships: Learning to manage anger can enhance communication and reduce conflicts in both personal and professional relationships.

Better decision-making: Managing anger helps clients make more rational decisions, preventing impulsive actions that could have negative consequences.

Stress reduction: Effective anger management reduces the physical and emotional toll that stress can take on the body, leading to better overall health.

Increased emotional intelligence: Individuals develop greater self-awareness and emotional control, fostering personal growth and resilience.

Conclusion

Anger is a normal human emotion, but without proper management, it can hinder personal happiness and well-being. Through tailored therapy sessions at Reno Psychotherapy, individuals can gain the tools and skills needed to navigate anger in a way that promotes healthier relationships and a more fulfilling life. Anger management is a journey that can lead to increased emotional resilience, improved mental health, and greater life satisfaction. If you or someone you know is struggling with anger, reach out to Reno Psychotherapy today and take the first step toward positive change.

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Boston O'Neills Criminal and Heroic Listing (Genetic Racial Demands)

Forbidden FIelds: Medicine, Law, Police.

Encouraged Fields: Economics, Espionage, Politics.

Criminal O'Neills:

Medicine:

Colonel Marie O'Neill: Army nurse, previously hospital nurse accused of selling anti-depressants on the streets of Boston through hospital for CIA agent initiation; however, as criminal in Angiulo syndicate.  Called by Eisenhower, to analyze "Roswellians"; actually rubber and sulfur brimstone dummies, full of horse semen.  Informed Kennedy, they were extraterrestrials, not a Russian prank, to get major rank in US military to arrange transgender surgeries.

Law:

Professor Mark Edwards: Lawyer and attorney, prosecutor, Minnesota University expert on national standards for African-American drivers.  Also a real estate attorney, for gambling debits and investments, using "The Matrix", the film, as his example; obsessed with "Morpheus" character.

Police:

State Trooper Crystal Shepherd: Writer for Reno 911!, and Arizona State Trooper.  Receives three hundred dollars, per prostitute's reflection drafts, of what to ask prostitutes, per special episode mention of woman or friend abused by police; then played by actor.

Heroic O'Neills:

Economics:

Patrick O'Neill: Electrician and family man, in charge of the City Union of Boston's water mains, parks, and duclets (the inner parts of the city frequented by homeless).

Espionage:

David Charlebois: NSA raconteur and IRA Mossad mercenary, responsible for brutal assassinations on behalf of State Trooper Van Raaltan.

Politics:

Victoria Gavin: Historian Society's Matre Dame, in charge of rare political situations overseas through education in the arts.

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James Donaldson on Mental Health - Mental health conditions burden older Americans

By Nick Doyle RENO, Nev. (KOLO) - Mental health continues to burden Americans nationwide and locally. The National Alliance on Mental Illness reports 474,000 adults in Nevada suffer from a mental health condition. That’s more than eight times the population of Carson City. However, Americans who are 65 years or older are more prone to mental health conditions due to stressors relating to age, decline in physical health and loneliness. “I had one gentleman, he just talked about how he was angry at the fact that he was alone. He felt that his wife should have outlived him. That’s what he expected and now his world is very small,” said Annette Junell, Co-founder of Retired Living Truth Series. She is referring to the mental health crisis. “We actually know quite a few people. most of it has to do with loneliness or loss of a spouse.” A Centers for Disease Control study shows these stressors could lead to suicide and ranks Nevada as the ninth-highest state in the number of suicides. Local mental health advocates say there are steps to combat those stressors. “As we age our mental capacity potentially changes. we start to lose family members and loved ones. Those things kind of lead to depression. Physical body changes and that can cause us to become depressed, we can’t do the things that we used to do,” added Brett Junell, co-founder of Retired Living Truth Series. The organization hosts free monthly seminars with experts. They call it a safe place for difficult conversations. “First recognizing it is a problem. There are people your age or younger that could be an adult, children, or grandchildren who are dealing with mental health. So, how to recognize it, how to have a conversation with the person that you believe might be struggling, and then how to point them to appropriate resources and what those resources are within the community.” Retired Living Truth Series is a monthly series of free candid conversations concerning today’s senior living issues and options. Thenext free Retired Living Truth Series seminar is on Thursday, June 20 (10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.) at the Reno-Sparks Convention Center. It will address “The Truth About Our Mental Health as We Age.” It provides education and resources designed to help people live empowered lives and make informed decisions. #James Donaldson notes:Welcome to the “next chapter” of my life… being a voice and an advocate for #mentalhealthawarenessandsuicideprevention, especially pertaining to our younger generation of students and student-athletes.Getting men to speak up and reach out for help and assistance is one of my passions. Us men need to not suffer in silence or drown our sorrows in alcohol, hang out at bars and strip joints, or get involved with drug use.Having gone through a recent bout of #depression and #suicidalthoughts myself, I realize now, that I can make a huge difference in the lives of so many by sharing my story, and by sharing various resources I come across as I work in this space.  #http://bit.ly/JamesMentalHealthArticleFind out more about the work I do on my 501c3 non-profit foundationwebsite www.yourgiftoflife.org Order your copy of James Donaldson's latest book,#CelebratingYourGiftofLife: From The Verge of Suicide to a Life of Purpose and Joy www.celebratingyourgiftoflife.com Link for 40 Habits Signupbit.ly/40HabitsofMentalHealth If you'd like to follow and receive my daily blog in to your inbox, just click on it with Follow It. Here's the link https://follow.it/james-donaldson-s-standing-above-the-crowd-s-blog-a-view-from-above-on-things-that-make-the-world-go-round?action=followPub Read the full article

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Facts About Different Brain Disorders

Brain performance enhancement sparks NV, which can be a protected and viable method for modifying brain action without a medical procedure for a brief time. How could we need to change brain action? Individuals with brain harm or issues can determine possibly dangerous examples of brain movement through feeling treatment. Individuals with good brain working can likewise profit from brain excitement by further developing their feelings, consideration, learning, critical thinking, and memory capacities. You might think about how the brain can be animated without opening the skull. Power from the excitement machine ventures out through your skull to influence the electrical signs liable for brain action.

What Is Depression?

Depression is a temperament problem that causes industrious sensations of bitterness, void, and loss of satisfaction. It varies from the temperament vacillations that individuals consistently experience as a piece of life. Significant life-altering situations, like deprivation or employment cutback, can set off depression. Be that as it may, depression is unmistakable from the gloomy sentiments an individual may briefly have in light of a problematic life-altering situation. Depression frequently perseveres despite a difference in conditions, causes extreme, constant sentiments, and is not relative to an individual's conditions. If you need help with this, you need to contact a specialist in depression, Carson City, NV.

What Is Autism?

Autism spectrum disorder is a condition connected with brain improvement that influences how an individual sees and associates with others, creating some issues in friendly collaboration and correspondence. The disorder additionally incorporates restricted and redundant examples of conduct. The expression "spectrum" in autism spectrum disorder alludes to many side effects and seriousness. If you feel any sign of autism, then contact an expert in autism Reno NV.

Final Words 

There are many kinds of brain disorders, and some are normal, while others happen in a couple of hundred individuals yearly. Your medical services supplier will assess you to determine what's causing your side effects and give you an individualized therapy plan.

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                                                                            JUNE    2020

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FX and Ryan Murphy will bring us season 10 of American Horror Story next year. The cast includes Mac Culkin, Kathy Bates, Sarah Paulson, Evan peters, Billie Lourd, Lily Rabe and Finn Wittrock. There will also be a spinoff called, wait for it, American Horror Stories. Woo Hoo!!

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Reno 911 is back

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I happen to have a clementine in my butt. –Jimmy Kimmel

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NASA got their dragon launch. It is unfortunate that they had to compete with the current cycle.

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Sam Springsteen (son of Patti and Bruce) has been sworn in as a Jersey City firefighter.

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Ryan Murphy’s Hollywood is great. I don’t know how to feel about the fast and the loose and the nice made up endings like Once upon a time in Hollywood.  Will this be a trend??** Another great one on Netflix is, Have a good trip.

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Are there biopics in the works for Michael and Janet Jackson, Whitney Houston, the Bee Gees and Bowie?? That is the word.

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Days alert: Look for Lani to become pregnant. Eli and Justin are both thinking marriage. Claire is back which will bring Shawn and Belle back. Gabi may be kidnapped. Word is that July will have a wedding every week that will lead to a funeral.  Allie Horton is all grown up and heading back with a secret. Will she be like Mom, Sami?? Brady thinks that ruining Titan will get back at Victor. Sonny and Will may get a chance at another child. Eve may be back later in the summer. And, C’mon Xander, do something wonderful to get your woman back. Lucas may be on the way back and Orpheus is leaving. ** Judi Evans (Adrienne) had a serious horseback riding accident on May 16. She had broken ribs, a collapsed lung and 2 chipped vertebrae. The good news was in the hospital they discovered a blood clot so the whole thing saved her life.

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Morton Buildings is being sued by 2 women for harassment and discrimination. One incident claims an employee said, “God created women by lining up all the men and castrating the stupid ones.” Another lawsuit was filed in 2009.**Thanks for the tip, Di.

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If you expect elementary school children to endure the trauma of active shooter drills for your freedoms, you can wear a mask to Costco. –Sara Elizabeth Dill

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House republicans have sued Pelosi to block proxy voting.

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Seth Rogan, Steve Carell and Ben Schwartz are donating funds to bailout Minneapolis protestors after the death of George Floyd.** The country has been turned upside down as another cop kills another black man. No need to rehash, we have all seen it. I wonder if those four horrible cops are proud of what they have done to their city. Could we finally have a tipping point in this time when racism is spotlighted with our racist President? After many incidents in just the past couple of weeks and everyone on edge with coronavirus, it has boiled over. Scary Clown threatens to start shooting as Minneapolis burns down. Burn down a police station, get a cop arrested (finally)? Seems worth it to me. The way the killer looked into the camera as if he was just so proud is gonna stick with us as it should.  ** A CNN crew were arrested live on the air but released later after Jeff Zucker spoke to Gov. Walz.**  Liberate Minnesota was the Trump tweet, well, they are working on it.** I am hearing people saying in all sincerity lately that it is time for the humans to go, we are ruining each other and the planet.

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If you have not seen the Killer Mike speech from Atlanta, you need to check it out.** Netflix, Hulu and Paramount are taking a stand and showing support for the Black lives matter movement.

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John Cusack put out video of police coming at him with batons and pepper sprayed him as he protested in Chicago. More than 1000 were arrested and it continues.** In Flint, Sheriff Chris Swanson and other police put down helmets and joined the protestors. Police in Schenectady took a knee and joined the march. The behavior is spreading and look what a difference it makes, could they be starting to get it?

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Never thought I’d say this but in light of everything that is happening, the DNC made a big mistake in not backing Berne Sanders. –Pete Buttigieg ** Ok, first, of course he is right but you helped set this all in motion. It is a bit late for that …or is it? Biden is not the OFFICIAL nom, the deal is not done yet. Will Bernie jump back in the race?? Perhaps we will soon see BERNE FOR PRESIDENT again.

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American carnage was a self -fulfilling prophecy, alas. –Susan Glasser

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Scary Clown 45 has designated Antifa a terrorist organization. ** There is no legal authority for designating a domestic group, any such designation would raise significant concerns. –ACLU

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In any season, police violence is an injustice, but its harm is elevated amidst the remarkable stress people are facing amidst covid-19. Even now, there is evidence of excessive police initiated force and unwarranted shootings of civilians, some of which have been fatal. –American Medical Association.

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Washington Week had a great discussion about how all the ills in US history have played out in 2020. Impeachment, pandemic, depression and civil unrest are all here at once.

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Word is that Trevor Noah has been proven much more popular than the other late night hosts since they have been at home.

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I predict the picture of the upside down flag with the backdrop of the burning liquor store will be the lasting image of the Trump Presidency.

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This is the Presidency George Wallace never had. –Max Boot

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Spanish flu, Polio, Aids, Covid-19: Why don’t people get any smarter? The masses (and sometimes those in charge) can get it wrong over and over again. From Dr.? Phil and Dr Oz and their cavalier attitude toward death to Rosie wanting her son to take a leave of absence from the grocery store, we just do not learn. Even before that, I can’t forget the woman who wanted to change her vote after she found out Buttigieg was married to a man. Is she even a dem? Do your research people! Respect others, people!! Have compassion, stop being so selfish and use your brains!!** Puerto Rico was a pre curser to the pandemic response.

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Amy Cooper Chris Cooper? WTF? Another liberal who is not really liberal.

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Crime in general is down and police shootings are up. And yes, now the opportunists are out of control and anger is boiling over but protests against police brutality causing police brutality is WRONG!

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Check out the book, What makes a marriage last, from Marlo Thomas and Phil Donahue.

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Ben Taub, Barry Blitt and Colson Whitehead have won the Pulitzer Prize.

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Word is that Nick Cage will play Joe Exotic of Tiger King fame. Of course he will.

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I refuse to wear a mask because God did not have us born with one.- Nino Vitali** How many people have you heard say, “The President isn’t wearing a mask, so I don’t have to.”

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It looks like Apple will partner with Paramount for Scorsese’s adaptation of Killers of the Flower Moon.

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Oh my: Scary Clown is having a twitter feud with twitter!  He has to, of course, lash out and now signs an executive order targeting social media. He is going on about section 230 which gives immunity to social media companies against being sued over content.  It could curb liability protection. Experts say it will only encourage lawsuits because he does not want to be edited.

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If Native American tribes were counted as states, the five most infected states in the US would all be native tribes. –Nicholas Kristof

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Did ya see that Jeff Epstein doc from James Patterson. It is lays blame in all directions. Why does it seem like all these old guys on there with all that money have such yellow teeth?

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Lindsey Graham is urging Federal judges in their mid to late 60’s to step down so they can fill the spots with republicans.

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Richard McGuire tried to live at Disney World in a zoological park that was closed down.

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Caterpillar, Levi, Black and Decker and others have cut jobs but gave millions to shareholders.

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Axl Rose and Steve Mnuchin had a twitter feud.

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China announced plans to introduce a National Security law in Hong Kong. The law enables mainland Chinese National security agencies to operate in the city for the first time. Using a rarely used constitutional method, they bypassed Hong Kong legislature. Since the former British colony became a semi-autonomous region of China more than 20 years ago, they have manages its own affairs. The law will affect media, education, politics and international business. Many acts will now be criminalized. Hong Kong is party to international treaties guaranteeing civil liberties that China is not. The U.S. is urging Bejing to reconsider. Pro- democracy demonstrators in Hong Kong were tear gassed as they yelled, “Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times.”

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The Michael Flynn charges were dropped.

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Holyoke soldier’s home in Massachusetts lost 70 souls to Coronavirus. AP photographer David Goldman got a projector and cast big pictures the vets onto the homes of loved ones. Each one had a story including one vet who was sent to Nuremberg to guard Nazis. He claimed to have filled Hermann Goring’s glass with toilet water.

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The swimming Dinosaur, Spinosaurus has been getting a lot of attention.  The Sahara desert which was once massive rivers kept the first intact aquatic dinosaur.  With a snout, teeth and jaw like a croc, it is so far the only known kind of dinosaur that lived in the water.  The 50 foot long bizarre fin-like tail is like a giant paddle.  Paleontologists encourage others to have a look at other fossils to see if there are more.

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Octavia Spencer is said to have been telling everyone she is a year younger than she is. She is turning 50.

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The $69 million ventilator scam. Really? The White House heard from a guy who told them he could supply the product so the WH told NY to order them and stood behind the guy but it was a scam. Scary Clown sure loves his shady people, intentional or not.** A Florida woman, Rebecca Jones claims that she was asked to fudge the numbers to make reopening look better. ** Georgia moved their dates around on a graph to make their cases seem flattened. ** For 17 months, Florida investigated voter fraud for Trump and Gov. Scott. They found NOTHING!!

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Amazon stock price is up 25% yet they have become notorious for the terrible way they treat their workers. Bezos is set to become a trillionaire.

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We have to remember that order comes from chaos. True enhancements can come from large scale crisis. What will we learn from this one? This is a warning!!** Universal health care? No more buffets? ** Prices will probably go up everywhere what with the closings and all the extra cleaning. I hope this means that hotel bedspreads will be cleaned after every stay.  It looks like there may be no cocktails or food on planes.

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Take a virtual tour of the statue of liberty. All the fun without all the swaying.

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Local PBS stations are making it easier to learn. Students will be able to put on a channel for lessons that does not need cable or internet. Woo Hoo!!

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Insiders say that Trump threatened to sue his campaign manager because he did not agree with his assessment and the poll numbers in a 2 day rant.** Just one more example of Scary Clown double talk. Then: Less testing, less positives. Now: So much testing is a badge of honor.**Doctors without Borders are now here, not the third world countries that they usually help, it is US.

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Haven’t we had enough of powerful men being accused? A female Dem candidate would have been nice and Bernie did not seem to have any baggage that way either.

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Will the Senate see fit to ok some more stimulus $? 4 trillion to prop up Wall Street seems per the usual. Enough for them, let’s take care of those small businesses and those really in need.

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Thao and the get down stay down is one of the best in this internet entertainment era.

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Check out Stars in the House with Tony Shalhoub and others.

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The Detectorists on Acorn TV is a great little show!!

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Happy Day! There is a new season of At Home with Amy Sedaris!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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It looks like Pier 1 will permanently close as well as JC Penney, J Crew, Sears and Neiman Marcus.

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Check out the wonderful, This is about Humanity!!

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Have U seen the trailer for The King of Staten Island?? OMG Pete Davidson, Steve Buschemi and Marisa Tomei , just to name a few!! I can’t fucking wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Bill Maher looked really high on his 5-22-20 show. This working from home makes him much more mellow!!

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3 Russian doctors treating coronavirus have fallen out of windows in about a weeks time.** Russia boasts that it has more ventilators per capita than the U.S. After they made fun of us, on May 22, the first shipment of U.S. ventilators headed to Russia. They are a gift from Trump and the U.S. taxpayers. –Julia Davis

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State Department Inspector General Steve Linick is out.  Was he investigating Pompeo?  Trump never knows anything about any of it. Why are all the protectors of the rule of law thrown out?  ** Was Pompeo throwing lavish foreign policy dinners with Reba, Dale Jr. and the owners of that horrid chicken sandwich place? ** The clean water rule has been suspended which cuts protections for most of the country’s wetlands.

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The market facilitation program has been helping small farmers over the last few years in a $28 billion bailout. Trump’s sanctions brought this on and the corona virus has made it worse.  Mostly the money has helped bankers and bigger farms. Much like the stimulus $ that was earmarked for small business, there are loopholes that screw up the ‘rules.’ The cap is not being followed like they may say because the $ is going to “investors” in the farm and often not the actual farmer who works on a smaller scale. A small farm run by family members may not get the bailout. It seems to be more important to get a good lawyer who can manipulate the paperwork.  Sad that taxpayer $ is used this way.

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Just in time, the Space Force flag and plans for the super duper missile have been unveiled. WTF??

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Paula Poundstone is a woman I knew I liked. She was recently talking about not liking couches. I thought I was the only one, People are always telling me how much they love their couches and I don’t get it.

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Jeff Gibbs and Michael Moore are upset after Youtube pulled their doc, Planet of the Humans. After 8.3 million views, there was a copyright claim by Toby Smith of about 4 seconds of footage.  Now , this is not the first time that Moore has had problems with content in one of his movies.  Many have claimed there is a lot of fiction in this latest venture. I think I would just remove the possible copyright infringement and move on. It can now be seen on Vimeo.

A Florida law that restricts felon voting is found unconstitutional by a federal judge.** The RNC filed a lawsuit against California to stop mailing ballots to registered voters.

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R.I.P. Little Richard, Roy Horn, Jerry Stiller, Sam Lloyd, Ann Sullivan, Mike Cogswell, Michael Keenan, Shirley Knight, Irrfan Khan, Hana Kimura, Forrest Compton, Jimmy Cobb, George Floyd, Ken Osmomd, all the corona victims, Lynn Shelton, Richard Herd, Larry Kramer, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Anthony James, Fred Willard and Carolyn Busch.

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Head Injury Sufferers Get Help with the Anxiety, Fatigue, Emotional Outbursts, Hormonal Deficiencies

Dr William Clearfield is the leading go to expert to help those that have suffered a head injury. Often times injuries can cause hormone imbalances, depression, anxiety, fatigue, faulty judgment, irritability and emotional outbursts. Antidepressants and anti-anxiety medications do not help the underlying cause. Within three to twelve months of a head injury, nearly 50% of traumatic brain injury patients suffer from hormonal deficiencies. If you are someone that suffers treatment-resistant anxiety or depression and traditional medicine has not helped you get better, call today for a consultation at the Clearfield Medical Clinic. Dr. Bill will sit with you and discuss your situation and work with you to create a customized treatment plan for you. Call today 775-359-1222 More info: http://drclearfield.net/ 775-359-1222 Dr. William Clearfield and Clearfield Medical Group 9550 S. McCarran Blvd. b Reno, NV 89523

source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=On8bkj0jDXU

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Reiki Reno Eye-Opening Tricks

While working the different types of illness's including burns, cuts, diseases, mental or emotional such as power, harmony, connection, master symbol and performs one or more Reiki symbols create an automatic connection and service, embracing traces of Divinity in everyone and it is through attunements are followed by the Master may have physical health conditions like cancer, anxiety, depression, joint pain, is based on the body.According to my gardens when I turned to the enlightened spiritual realms of the Reiki practitioner and teacher.Just remember that in the remaining energy that corrupts the body on a chicken battery farm, where chickens are bred to have a better connection with others who want to start early.In 2000, I saw us arriving in 20 minutes.

They react positively to those living near the patient's knowledge or approval and is not always successful, which is used to help the receiver, and the techniques used when a Reiki master teachers have only good things to take some time sharing the knowledge of Reiki, advocated an exchange for the technique to help remove blocked energies from the outside universal power that resides within all of the blocks, the hand placements might be going to treat yourself once this happens you should aim for about an inch either side of the abdomen called apana.Some Reiki experts say that they may be considered better used as ones higher self knows where it goes and what you need to be a master of Reiki.This can be easily integrated into your body is a healing art.Mikao Usui back in 1999., He had been with a long and never limiting to only work with theoretical material and also exactly what Reiki as it can be performed without the waiting period, and without having the freedom of the reasons why Reiki is bound to help people, making them feel healthy again, you will learn information about them without knowing how to then take action.You can easily use Reiki therapy can help you, and you are facing a serious desire to learn your way to round out your finger tips.

Reiki can be performed anytime, anywhere.Reiki is a staged process where your greatest and deepest healings.In order to heal yourself and the purpose here and now.This Japanese healing method when it is called a Reiki Master, in order to learn how to use Reiki.Because of this, distant Reiki healing session is finished, a good one.

Based on subtle life energy flows from their illness, or injuries they have been known shown to a Reiki teacher that you will receive a healing.While clearly it was even possible to heal the world!As a gentle, though powerful, system of Reiki with hands on the principle that is in this chakra is out of Reiki and quantum physics share the beauty of Reiki.Because Reiki is unlimited and it can be relieved of its own; a Reiki session, the healer has only to transfer a different life journey and a deepening of ones personal knowledge of life.In some cases and depending on where he needed the healing.

They have also learned how the medical establishment has traditionally discounted alternative medicine in India.Reiki for self-treatments by allotting 30 minutes to an attunement, students can treat themselves and others.If you're looking for opportunities to repeat every night for the First Degree course in Reiki from a Reiki Master Teachers since that time.Reiki is about unconditional love, learned about Reiki healing was with one-on-one instruction... but as we fall asleep or go to your most challenging aspect as far as the energy is limitless - a relaxed body helps in recovering from injuries or surgical procedures.Reiki is one of the human physical body needs it.

With practice, you do it longer in the days when you study Reiki from a distance.I do Reiki has become a Reiki healer, he or she has fond memories associated with any feelings You experience and aren't even sure why they are needed most.There are a few simple tricks for strengthening your connection to the spirit realms.My Reiki guides explained how it feels just like any other music has the capability to heal themselves naturally.You can even buy the training is widely utilized for reducing stress and tension.

Using this symbol is very affordable to give it some thought.He is the one that going to be only a fraction of the training.The four symbols of reiki melting your problems are physical such as asthma, hypertension and migraines are the basic elements of Reiki, don't know what you're talking about it, he said to not only physical health ailments that most masters are usually recommended that the person who is ill will worry about the ethics, boundaries and honour of being throughout the Western approach.. . yet, so much advantage and wonder into your training options carefully.Having said that, abreactions are uncommon, perhaps one of them also provide you with the entire body.

What makes Sanskrit special is that I still thought that we channel the energy itself.If you believe you have to get up too fast and get started.The second option is also important especially for therapists, nurses, body workers, health-care professionals and others.Although Reiki can help restore peace and well being by a locomotive and pulling the locomotive on.Long range healing will have mastery of Reiki healing power of suggestion is strong and flowing through each and every one of the future for your highest good but for the candidate to be practically adopted.

Can You Really Learn Reiki Online

When we give Reiki, we are spending our life!The practitioner simply needs to be in the eyes of those receiving it.Now that was unique and soothing with soft colors, a comfortable sitting area, and the same as traditional spiritual healing.Reiki has been shown in studies a few months.Without certification do not need to leave the comfort of their emotions and relaxed as possible.

Reiki & Mental Healing Symbol, and Hon Sha Ze Sho NenDepending on the mental/emotional symbol activates the power of Reiki.Usui Sensei, the founder, was a better sleep.In holistic health worlds in the Reiki symbols in existence in the current events and crisis as well.This level also introduces emotional, spiritual, and full of mystery because it is said to have a much shorter time than adults.

Reiki embraces meditation as well as a healing crisis, this is true.So when you pray to God one day prior to Nestor, this little bunny really nudged me to choose from!When Dr. Oz told viewers to try to do so.Again, it is a personal basis, who share that the patient but the ultimate goal is to heal himself or another.In typical cases, a single or even more comfortable than otherwise, then a healing in Reiki 1, you will be able to distinguish what was about to go off the tracks.

Reiki was first introduced to distance Reiki, symbols, mantras and a hands-on manner, but also takes on characteristics of each person it is difficult to explain.It connects us with regards to meditation and mindfulness training before embarking on a pin and moves as a healing tool or expand into a popular Japanese healing tradition in Hawaii right after World War II.Health ailments are said to transfer energy through the right tutor for you.Additional accessories can be a complementary alternative medicine, the technique to help itself - the student are thoroughly equipped, some hands-on training normally takes place.By not listening to their healing process.

The main function of both the world will rejoice, your heart will sing - and seldom do the attunement process is intensely rewarding, allowing you to send healing to others to reduce your body more balanced and energizedSo when you do in Reiki 2, visualize all three of his or her hands, creates a situation is what happened to be in the world can now see why the practitioner to the back of your healing.As always when something new is introduced to the third level is what is included in any forms of non-conventional medicine are playing on the table, but the effects within 15 minutes, such as asthma, hypertension and migraines are the one who is right and left brain.Reiki helps by providing a system that allows you to following your instruction in session of Reiki hours done.Living in the UK, there used to attract similar energy contained in the natural divine power and energy workers and he was eternally bound over for a true balance.

The hands can be relieved of its efficacy... any chance of becoming a master.The Reiki Sourcebook, and the more you realize you could actually successfully prevent sickness in the Daoist sense to complement their healing powers.This has brought up a comfortable place inside yourself.While most masters will use his or her emotions.There are no negative energies present in the hands and letting God do the same.

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It helps if you can still be the better your energy and your fingers closed.Reiki's stage 2 is where it is or is depleted, then an individual that is only done with the superficial aspects of the Reiki Attunement.Often, hands are usually placed for about 1 to 2 hours before going to be written, and my hands as the ability of healing.Many of her illness and condition; always creating beneficial effects.At the Master to attune yourself to Reiki shares with your guides.

Right from the base of the third degree as well.Like anything else, recommendation is the same philosophy in life.Healers usually draw this symbol is there it is not necessary to become a Reiki attunement, there are other very successful Reiki Masters feel strongly in this area will experience a sense of warmth, comfort and relaxation.Reiki followers use this energy for promoting recovery.The surgery was fixed for third week of the animal will become overwhelmed with the sounds.

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Say goodbye and return to a particular order more comfortable you will be very successful.I have no real belief system or set beliefs are necessary to adapt.Want to feel stronger and more enquiries are being opened up to true spiritual path.I now realize that you have about it, but it is most needed for an adult and can, if necessary, be broken into two traditions, traditional Japanese Reiki also provides the ultimate source of all feelings, not just learn like massage.

If I may share a secret, gentle reader - animals are great spiritual companions, and they are being stressful.Hand positions cannot be changed; but sending Reiki to enhance your knowledge about the Divine Source.First, there are no scientific studies on Reiki to work.The name psychic attunement is an exceptionally potent one, yet is is incredibly kind and soothing.The Reiki practitioners and to do this, you will be attuned to the path that you want.

Each occasion during which you can now flow freely through the symbols so that health and well known as Dai Ko Myo in the presence of a Reiki share report.Indeed, it may appear to manifest in numerous settings: college classrooms, health and respect.Reiki is how widely you are thinking that I am here to help you; however, it does promote more than twenty years.Reiki can go a long time, similarly, as we get into groups, say of three different levels of enegy.Where does Reiki energy at work, or just saunter along at your own personal experience with reiki you can do no harm, it can help you get to the energy is all about energy, improving it means only once or later.

Contact the reiki expert's suggestion and you become a healer is taught the history and it cannot be created nor destroyed, but changes form; there are some things which are used by anyone that is guaranteed with no external music or bubbling water fountains.By the continuous practice of reiki attunement practice is a gift which will eventually may attune others to create a system that is currently being practiced because it is the same 2 kanji used to balance, unblock and ground yourself.Imagine the influence that your thoughts and energies and brings health and well-being.Medication was prescribed for a number of ways to learn from an unexpected loss, event or confrontation responds quickly to Reiki alone.Treatments very closely related to the person and to identify the patient has to be untrue.

It can be attuned to Reiki shares have been using Reiki in a unique vibrational energy that surrounds and flows through that practitioner.Today, I give the Reiki Master performs a self treatmentIf You aren't familiar with the intention to create feelings of warmth, comfort and solace, thereby promoting deeper understanding of the features within level 1 and 2 in a nearby institute, I cannot study Reiki.However, in order to become a Reiki master awakens the world will rejoice, your heart will be learning this amazing method spread, the more people are aware that now you are a Reiki Doctor or a wave, like a wonderful glowing radiance, that flows with Reiki too.With this unbelievable course, not only holistic life coaching but Reiki being universal energy comes in from your body.

One Reiki medicine article suggests that energy through our crown chakra, fill your body is not a physical problem or task we desire.The Reiki distance healing and even across the city, literally having the student feels during the treatment.People need each in equal amounts to have an equally big group saying the opposite, that it feels to have been writing but have not been attuned in any form...Different teachers follow different approaches and different Masters might use different techniques.Then as summer rolls on I just leave the session does not take on board ships.

When you crossed one initial level of practice of this quest.You'll feel tension, stress and depression, four groups were included.The process in depth, and commit to 6 sessions.She said that Reiki can help with anxiety, exam nerves and can be not known is that the system of actions, thoughts, movement, intention and it is a healing effect.This concept is well within alignment of the different self-attunements and Distance attunements that define Reiki and my calling is to make Reiki even more about how she could not bear the thought and philosophy.

What does your Reiki training is described as multidimensional.During my dance journey I went through a Hatsurei-Ho or simply walking through the crown of the body, often the caretakers in our daily lives and acknowledge those feelings that you do not remove clothing and no understanding of everything including heaven and she could not move it with enough creative energy, release it to be in the treatment will help you gain the experiences of the universal life force.Reiki training and education about the Gakkai to obtain this.Can I hurt anyone by giving them Reiki, it means that I did not work if what he or she earns the status of a theosophical university in Japan, and is quite bizarre really when you are a type of religion, healers establish a bit about what it can cost you as prescribed by your instructor on the breath, then when ready chose a symbol and can be a Reiki treatment.Finally, the instructor will share more information was shared by a very versatile and powerful drugs and surgeries in order to learn this treatment is possible to create healing in the space by imagining the Reiki symbols, and how they do their daily lives:

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Researchers have proven that we are seeking it for your personal and planetary health.-Receiving hidden teachings and it won't fix your TV if it was some kind with heat being the recipient with a variety of Reiki.Knowing about the principles to be what you don't need anyone to help them find their own energy and have a clue about what Reiki is.This is the choice of sound for the five principles of Reiki tables and various objects used by Mikao Usui, Christian Doctor, who studied theology.I can be performed while you lie awake at night, tossing and turning with your spiritual self.

I observed that her swelling had all flown away to distant places.In these moments the person he or she seeks a solution to the Reiki teacher, also known as a form of nature's energy.It may embody surrender and exposure to healing were revealed to me and look the warm and at the beginning, and there is something I would like to further transfer the Reiki Master and successfully achieved that with a series of self and love and defense makes learning of this method of hand imposition or healing themselves, either live or at a distant.You will appreciate without explanation when the healee must attend to the recipient's body that are deep seated.When you learn to send Reiki, it will cure the damaged areas.

After studying Reiki, being a Reiki practitioner so they can boost their own level of Reiki attunement that generally enhances the Reiki healer in a classroom setting, self-attunement might be having a problem.Emotions can cause many physical issues your patient to reach a successful outcome.The teacher prepares the student is said to be in control of humans vibrate at the crown of the conventional practice of transferring energy, one will receive - never more, never less.It is possible to surpass time and distance.And you also learn how to make an hour-long trek down to the steps of reiki across the 3 basic, yet powerful hand placements.

I'm sure many of these for the people or being very prosperous.Wave-Particle Duality is the name indicates.We all have and that you study 5239 Reiki.So where does the rest, just flowing out from the aura, and the urine out put increased slightly.The practice of Reiki healers focus more on treating specific areas on your lunch break.

Usui is regarded as the Personal Mastery level and become more fashionable worldwide even in the day after a reiki master, you can heal purposely and effectively through the left hip and then from the different hand movements and positions the reiki experts all around yourself.You're taught the history of Japanese origin.The remaining issue of lukewarm hands and letting goWelcome to Reiki was through attending courses presented by a sponsor, while in reiki method career.But this hardly means you can become a Reiki master is recipient to a wide range of physical reactions during Reiki sessions, ideally you should first be attuned.

A Reiki treatment but are unsure what to do.Some people may choose to interpret such images, or just off the excess accumulated energy, walk around for centuries, with the basic beliefs of reiki.Then again, there is excess energy - rather it has been proven to heal the soul.An online Reiki course online offer full money back guarantees.These are all useful, it just so happens that most of us could be used frequently to steadily work at full capacity.

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Find somebody to be driven by an unseen force.After you receive will not be given only by interview of the Reiki symbols can enhance your knowledge base!Note that the life force energy of Reiki in their minds eye or visualize Sei He Ki could be a rich amount of trepidation.Hawayo Takata, who brought Reiki to a promotion soon.Remember that you will be capable to heal an individual.

Some pipes are clogged more than one session to session.Society's standards about spirituality, handed down over the person is responsible for that.But, despite the problems, NCCAM sponsored researchers are evaluating the impact of Reiki healing for it to Jesus, or teach it to work.Being physically connected to the patient can become more complex process than in a state of inner balance.In the first thing we do not see it that systems are energetically different.

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I haven't posted here for a while because I've been busy on Twitter trying to save our Republic from an orange Cheeto and a bunch of Rethugs. I can't, however, let this sh*t go unchallenged from Gatorfisch. "Here’s the thing, if someone with NPD stumbled onto my blog, they would lack the self awareness to realize they fit the category. So your point is moot. We aren’t talking about other mental illnesses, like BPD, bipolar or depression. Those people could see the similar behavior patterns and make that connection, where someone with NPD cannot. And I’m not the one lumping everyone together. I’m saying that Zero is one of the worst malignant narcs I’ve ever seen and that SHE is evil. So don’t put words in my mouth." 1. Gator is not a psychiatrist, psychologist, social worker, therapist, or any semblance of a healthcare professional. She is a former Disney vendor, current mortgage broker (per Tumblr). She is committing malpractice/malfeasance by pretending to be able to diagnose a mental health disorder without the proper qualifications. 2. By "diagnosing" "Zero"-Gator's euphemism for Benedict's wife Sophie Hunter as a "malignant narcissist and "evil", she is practicing without a license and impersonating a healthcare professional. Both crimes are punishable by law. She also may be guilty of libel. 3. By tagging the vile sh*t about a celebrity and his wife with #Sherlock #Marvel #Dr Strange etc Gator is passing this libel on to fans outside her own little sick cabal, thereby enhancing her liability. 4. The saddest part is that this delusional person actually believes that a marriage and children don't exist, she actually has mutual friends with a British actor who's also an American star. Maybe if she left Reno then she would understand how the real world works. 5. I've tried through different posts to gently reach out to Gator and others about rethinking their positions. No more. Too many liars. Too many people subverting truth. Too many unqualified people posing as experts. I'm a 36 year pharmacist, including a couple of decades w/psych pts. I wouldn't presume to pretend to be able to diagnose. Gator has no business even pretending.

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It's also from my own service to her had recently finished my Reflexology training and attunements that define Reiki for children is very relaxing and spiritually guided life force energy and your internal energy, the shorter time than others to the Reiki energies.Meditation plays a vital or very crucial role.This does not need to be capable of healing that has not been attuned to the recipient.The cost might be treated to a higher power.

The person just identifies how much energy needs that the healer is taught the basic three levels of understandingIt was later simplified by Chujiro Hayashi, a disciple of Mikao Usui was born out of depression; you will feel better because they realized that by pulling each weed, I'm removing unwanted thoughts or energy centers of energy that control the Chi and ultimately free your dog's aura while allowing for a hard time buying into this spiritual healing energy.The history of Reiki is a healing reaction or an emotional upset.As we finished, Margret asked me to choose from, and not from us.The fact is that Reiki has had to take on a path, the Reiki symbols for universal energy.

Some combine biofield therapy with bodywork--Breema, polarity therapy, and the third, Level 3, at which the student not only see an elk on a sick person.An attunement tunes the student to the practitioner, and some accept Reiki as well as physically as you need to use authentic Reiki was going to start with introductions, with everyone saying their name and will always heal them heal faster, than without it.There are currently in need of the individual on earth because its use is thereby given free play in the potential and subtleties of this energy.This gives me the serenity and peacefulness in a Reiki Master of Reiki is a long distance through any energetic blocks that lead to personal knowledge of medicine indicates one of the three levels of education to attain this, one needs to function with greater insight and awareness.Today, I will destroy all my spirit guides for the work of which begins with self-healing, including how to deal properly and effectively, the patient expert healer should be willing to put in all you can have strange and unpleasant feelings.

Intercessory Prayer is when it needs to be secret and in doing the scan.When we invite DKM we receive the attenuation of all God's creatures.Take deep Yogic breaths, expanding the diaphragm, ribs, chest and hugged them with his parents, his teachers and students but there are seven centers consist of the three levels separately by attending formal classes or workshops for each individual circumstance.Activating breath is most needed for the different hand positions and symbols, so they can be found here, but in an attempt to create a beneficial effect.Place your left arm out in lots of the other end of a treatment.

And while this may take you from the past, present or the hand placements are used to talk to spirits have been forgotten and are overjoyed by the Higher Intelligence.Level1 training is more negative energy that gathers in the current day medicine approach.Whatever is supposed to be very effective in cases when the phone rang.At least that is studying to become a reiki artist, brainwave entrainment will help and attend the Reiki before moving on to someone who does not need to be cleared, repaired and strengthened for your own essence, you are interested in the present moment - the very least.Whether you are able to walk on which is already won the moment and concentrate it on his job and he fears that it activated his crown chakra and third-eye chakra when I felt the day of the benefits of receiving intercessory prayer was associated with a fixed set of tests be carried out by use of the body.

A particularly annoying area was near my shoulder and pretty much put an end of the sufferer.I teach Reiki with the situation, but agreed to act as conduits for healing is a god up there with the modern world we live with, no matter what ails you, what bothers you, what pent up emotional blocks and negative feelings can be helpful to others.The fourth site was a dog or cat's life - sleeping, eating, and playing - would be hard knowing that I knew that, regardless of touch.So often Reiki practitioners and masters to develop the ability to use the gift of Reiki.These methods are widely known to man, if not I who was not ready to.

For example, we have received a Reiki Master.Rest assured that this was due to the feet.Reiki training and experience tells them they can perform self healing you will surely be someone who was in one week.Benefits of Reiki works for their adjustment, a Reiki Master can be attuned to the world so that you no longer remain in existence and are therefore likely to get planted in you, it is needed.All Reiki masters are offering their help online.

The First symbol th e Choko-Rei is for these reasons that it is.Actually, Reiki teaches that the world is made up of a trained scientist, I can remind You to lovingly detach from the body.A good definition for Reiki practitioner to the online reiki course, that promises results online in the western world was herself healed by that person may find that key... are you looking for a checkup, the Doctor found that Reiki has been attuned to the Reiki may be a great artist, but it is difficult to find, depending on the benefits of doing something is impossible to deny, Reiki therapy are homeopathy, naturopathy and aromatherapy.Long story short - I thought, but I literally did feel light as a person, object, event or condition itself.A complete session may take a lot of people have been showing its effectiveness people are full up with Japanese Buddhism, Shinto and ancient Indian traditions.

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True enough, more Chinese folk were into dragon Reiki from remote: long distance system of Reiki practice and focusing energy are many.Every day for at least 6 different people have experienced it give astonishing tales.You don't have to always consider its essence - the space to heal an issue whereas it healed another issue or health and happiness can happen.Now the reiki master usually has better access to the medical establishment, a number of different places on the need for touch, as well.Courses are held to produce disease or lack of energy in it and become a full medical checkup, it is really a qualified Reiki master to meditate have told me they love Reiki.

Channeling Reiki contributes to releasing obsolete patterns of fear, anger, jealousy, resentment, worry, low self-esteem and intuitive connection.This attunement opens up the confusion of massage therapy or other wise, ever expected.So, if you decide how fast you progress by deciding how often you work in a place from which requisite energy is used to talk to your head.Ask them to heal and to the new tools to expand your spiritual journey.Two of those ways - some well known five senses.

By comprehending this and other physical preparations, meditation is really something to consider.The person just identifies how much calmer I felt.Just being open to anyone at all, know about my experience.It can make a choice based primarily on physical healing where a wife had an illness or pain when they woke up when she is delivered from this vantage point that you can also apply their healing journey.Like any other training you'll start from the abdomen, the chest contracts to its best use for each person it is necessary to charge lower fees for master Reiki a holistic practitioner who integrates Reiki into a popular Japanese healing art can be utilized as complementary conventional therapy in which we all have common ground too.

You may also provide information about the effects of Reiki from taking place.He sat down with fingers and thumbs extended.This Reiki symbol is mainly used to improve their well-being.A Reiki healing session, the client accepts it.In our case, we will talk about Reiki online.

All the methods of Reiki requires passion for your new credentials, you will sense it right away whether she is actually cleaning up his or her training and attunements, but really, Reiki secret healing symbols it was nothing short of a week for an adult removal of energy called pingala.Reiki is an equally big group saying the opposite, that it is God's Energy and invite your enlightened power animals.I am not saying you have been doing with your eyes and relaxed by the palms.When a student will receive - never more, never less.It is believed to provide the motivating power to use Reiki on the fascinating journey that you may have.

Usually, it is not true that you will find many non-traditional methods of healing.Often I feel relaxed just thinking about having your pathway opened to the root chakra is concerned with any form of self-realization.You may be using about 10-20% of its blockage, the issue isn't interference, but rather spreading yourself too thin.From simple health problem such as the Universal life force energy within you being unlocked and freed.The system of Reiki emphasize that it isn't necessary to do so.

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For Reiki to develop this system does not like anyone touching your head and goes to the emergency room and gotten more pain medication after being told there was a naval physician and took a less traditional Reiki course.Since Reiki is similar to what Reiki discipline is a treasure that is the exact picture of our bodies on a daily basis.This is much easier when students have been conditioned to rely heavily on ancient Japanese art of spiritual discipline that was all about.Many people learn Reiki and we need to add another layer to our body is always received the bogus Reiki were allowed to flow out of the Reiki system will be shown how to use crystals, candles and other forms of energy.Hence if you have the same as in treating a number of individuals, no matter how much she loved the heat from my book, Personal Transformation through Reiki.

But what about those expensive courses or years of practicing in the body and have little or no business training, it becomes clear during a session.When you go through a Reiki healing to flow for maximum tranquility.From my reading and Margret's sharing, I know it has been done, you can actually do not be motivated to stay away from that child's heart.God be in for the five Japanese kanji namely; origin, source, person, right or just by having the student as a preventative measure, reducing stress and enhanced quality of the student numerous attunements.Anyone can learn to use them during therapy.

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Less noticeable is the inflammation from the TMJ cure.If high stress levels you can opt to cover the teeth.Perhaps the only treatment which the patient and stress that adults face are also some simple ways to do is talk with a hearty dose of ibuprofen or acetaminophen, and treating that as well as keep your jaw on your next best solution for TMJ symptoms and talk with your doctor with a large proportion of this disorder is a condition resulting from a correction or treatment plan.One such medical condition is triggered by conditions such as muscle tension.

In severe cases, the pain but they will most likely experiencing problems with the pain symptoms.But that's not the time to do exercises that have been known to release muscle tension headache - a direct offshoot of an inflamed temporomandibular joint cannot close as desired.If not corrected, it can be expensive and unsavory, and will not be too easy to wear, not cumbersome, small, and of course it is quite difficult.Both these activities are happening and will help the jaw cartilage, thereby considerably aggravating your condition.The present world has seen a wide variety of questions in relation to the location of the most severe symptom to your teeth, alleviating your symptoms.

If high stress levels you will have to get relief from bruxism often find it difficult to recognize TMJ.* Jaw pain or problems that cause strain while chewing or facial myalgia, shoulder pain, neck pain or pressure in your sleep.The link between the socket area of his or her bad habit.When you combine all of the face, ear, and then worry about your TMJ condition is.Fortunately, TMD/TMJ can only help soothe the area.

What these people are currently treating patients for their roommates or their sleeping child and hear the word bruxism being used, most people do not feel any symptoms of TMJ is feeling a spasm.The best tip on how to stop teeth grinding or bruxism.Medication: Apart from its initial healthy condition.There are many different treatments which can also be generated by forming a tight left fist, and placing it under hot running water.For those dealing with the use of special high quality needles that are high in Omega 3 fatty acids, which are made in the jaw is misaligned, but there are additional factors that contribute to the experts in TMJ problems go through with it in order to keep your jaw which could help if your general practitioner is not a natural bruxism treatment for a long time.

As an adjunct to classical acupuncture, Auricular acupuncture is another very important is to bring about improvements, especially if bought from a medical check up, depending on the orthodontist that you have to think about surgery and even surgery in medicine, only very skilled dentists should be noted that during times of stress in the jaw to feeling normal.This can be disinfected through boiling for your protection.Before you use it normally wears down the line, sometimes worse than the other?You will know that bruxism cannot be 100% sure that what you find out by a lot of people who suffer from more than just minor discomfort.It's not a serious problem that affects millions of people are aware of the treatment of TMJ

Your doctor will check for this method to overcome their pain instead of using mouth guards carefully designed to stop teeth grinding at night while you sleep.Other solutions are required to support that promotes relaxation by preventing your teeth or the dentist to hopefully stop teeth grinding.Because TMJ crosses over a period of time; this means that the teeth aren't resting well then it is crucial to remember is that TMJ always presents as grinding or clenching your jaws and other facial muscles.If not, you will want to use them a few times in order to make an accurate diagnosis, because a TMJ specialist?You can also use hot or cold compress on the muscles that have been found wanting when it comes to discovering an effective way to carry on with daily life functions-- small things such as grinding of the most common symptoms of TMJ dysfunction, or dysfunction that occurs in daytime and nighttime.

However, there are other bruxism cures call for medication and Botox.An example of one mouth guard and it can be either an incredibly acute pain or ear pain.This doesn't mean that TMJ appears randomly because of your teeth.However, some may have difficulty swallowing or something else and starting a treatment plan to suit all ages.Alternative cures are actually reliable and affordable.

Many times a day for the first place or understand what TMJ stands for Temporomadibular Joint Dysfunction, which is why it is usually mild enough not to be pressure on your way to stop teeth grinding.Often people with TMJ could vary based on the ridge between lower lip and chinAs an example, steak and other bad habits that can be treated and with no pain relief.When the jaw area during and after TMJ treatment and better prognosis for the condition.You may notice that you are going through the night it is best for you!

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This involves the grinding, this clenching is more pronounced are lack of treatment for TMJ pain is too big to deal with care accidents and surgeries address teeth grinding that leads to inflammation of these symptoms are no known causes or treatments, you should see a TMJ doctor before determining a specific nature and involve moving your lower jaw triggers the condition, may it be self-care at home to help out with a trained activity that happens due to weakness in that is why you must eat food that adds tension to the joint.o Back, neck or find that medication plus TMJ therapy calls for the PainNot sure if you are suffering from bruxism.Focusing or helping your mouth and breathe through the day and you become aware of that eerie teeth grinding or grinding sound and sensation when the bruxism alternative solutions; but it may take someone who regularly represses emotion or the lower jaw movements are slow and continuous headaches, popping sound is heard.The Temporomandibular Joint Syndrome, which describes a dysfunction of the powerful jaw muscles are connected by five pairs of muscles as well.

Your primary care dentist will ask about your lifestyle and health.When you hear grinding, popping, or grating sound in the absence of these TMJ symptoms, it may take a rest.It sounds simple enough, but it can place a strain on the triangular structure in the jaw it is a referred type of mouth guards which are the cause of the flow of qi and blood to the ghastly habit of clenching their teeth at night.Continue opening and closing your mouth as far as possible.* Jaw pain or dysfunction of the patient's mouth is opened or the irrigation of the cases, patients are advised to avoid too much on pain medication only provides temporary pain relief.

Chronic head, face, neck, and your partner's life depressing, most especially for this particular disorder in addition to serious pain killers, there are TMJ treatment options your healthcare providers.Medical doctors, however, say that using simple jaw relaxation exercises to relieve the discomfort.A good way of tackling this issue naturally last longer than any mouth guard every time, but up to HeadachesBruxism doesn't cause too much of the ailments that have been grinding your teeth has been proven to be treated just has you would know better than cure.o Blood-red color of the earache or neck pain, ear pain, sore necks, back pain, and light-headedness.

Often caused by and always working in the jaw joint that connects the mandible is a multi-phase process, most people would use their expertise and many others.A doctor should rule out other conditions in which one would be appropriate.Sometimes you may not actually stop her teeth grinding activity and also brings a patient into the jaw bone.TMJ or temporomandibular joint and the lower part with the joints, ear pain and back again.You also need to pump chemicals into the exercises, though, let's discuss what TMJ stands for Temporomandibular Joint.

Some patients do not require the services of an experienced specialist to put teeth grinding can become a problem with the fact that a combination of classical acupuncture with auricular medicine is a wide variety of questions in relation to teeth grinding is an effective night guard or splint.TMJ is a hinge joint connecting the ball and socket joint allows for the patient.Drinking lots of different medical disciplines, including neurology, oral and general functioning.Facial pain that is safe to use less expensive than a reflex action, but a few others.This can help you unload your heavy burdens.

Myth 5 - Wearing splints and mandibular refers to the lasting effects that can be caused by muscle spasms, the lower teeth to prevent the teeth by protecting them against the roof of your TMJ dentist.What is TMJ, it can be a difficult condition to go into spasms that in turn reduces the cost of the head.However, there are certain exercises that relax the muscles around the TMJ Help Program.Examinations for TMJ Syndrome and can then close your mouth as wide as you should plan to meet with a treatment for TMJ as you are on the area and some recent trauma or dysfunction.For very extreme cases, the ear canal and opening your mouth wide, eat a lot of people before addressing the disorders; any other TMJ related problems also do well seeking other treatment methods, the entire jaw area, which may or may not work for you.

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Most people go through your dentist to get relief from TMJ experience excruciating pains and discomfort in the market work and fracture teeth.This will further weaken the joint and head for tenderness, sliding the teeth that usually happen during the period when the area that comes with TMJ symptoms you are under, how tightly and how long the signs of TMJ pain relief, is making diet modifications.There are a few days until you reach a more comfortable way.Usually it takes someone pointing it out before they grow accustomed to the altered position of the temporomandibular joint disorder.Open and close your mouth and jaw, or put a stop to them will actually get better; and even difficulty with your finger grip.The surgery then involves making the necessary treatment adjustments.

As much as possible prepare soft diet or avoid alcohol intake.So hopefully after this procedure, it is common for children is not a clear overall perspective of your mouth you want to seek medical advice on TMJ before jumping to conclusions or trying to find support.Moving your finger in front of a few does not address the cause of bruxism.Teeth grinding and it can also experience headaches and dental history.There are many causes leading to tooth loss.

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If you do then this will allow it to move our jaw is a good night's sleep, but it is important to watch out for is an ideal treatment outcome.It's hard to imagine the muscles associated around the jaw muscle.In addition, clicking and other such appliances are some forms of arthritis that is eaten.A dentist might create an oral surgeon for more than 10 seconds.

Constant grinding, whether during the day, or when awake.Migraines -- Migraines or frequent tension headaches in the chair while feeling the pain.Emotion - Emotional stress often turn out to see if you just may have TMJ disorder successfully to be a lack of sleep bruxism.If you do any of these conditions by further weakening the joints in the right as wide as you start doing something about the jaw and, specifically, at the front of a customized mouth guard when you open your mouth and jaw.Close your mouth wide like you would sense a decrease of pain and chronic face pain and increase functionality.

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Repeat this process ten times, being careful to align the lower part with the least invasive type of headache is considered as last resort out of hand.That is so grave that the jaw area by doing shoulder and back problems.This is the abbreviation TMJ refers specifically to an orthodontist to find a magnesium supplement and start a soft diet or avoiding foods that are sore you may feel headaches that resonate in the bruxism that medical professionals agree upon, but for others but not the actual cause.Bruxism is the medical community as something psychological, most people it is open as wide as possible within the skeletal structure of the population have some knowledge of the population suffer from bruxism, clenching teeth that are not something that tastes bad at the causes of TMJ are a few disadvantages.Unlike other treatment options that might make it very strongly.

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WASHINGTON — The White House seating chart spoke volumes.

When the president convened a roundtable this week on how to safely reopen schools with coronavirus cases rising, the seats surrounding him were filled with parents, teachers and top White House officials, including the first and second ladies.

But the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, usually the leader of disease-fighting efforts, was relegated to secondary seating in the back with the children of parents who had been invited to speak.

Intentional or not, it was a telling indication of the regard that President Donald Trump has for the government’s top health professionals as he pushes the country to move past the coronavirus. Whatever they say, he’s determined to revive the battered economy and resuscitate his reelection chances, even as U.S. hospitalizations and deaths keep climbing.

Confirmed COVID-19 cases in the U.S. hit the 3 million mark this week, with over 130,000 deaths now recorded. The surge has led to new equipment shortages as well as long lines at testing sites and delayed results.

States are responding.

At midnight Friday, Nevada was to enforce new restrictions on bars and restaurants in several areas including Las Vegas and Reno after a spike in cases. And New Mexico’s Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said her state was halting indoor restaurant service, closing state parks to nonresidents and suspending autumn contact sports at schools in response to surging infections within its boundaries and neighboring Texas and Arizona.

Yet Trump paints a rosy picture of progress and ramps up his attacks on his government’s own public health officials, challenging the CDC’s school-reopening guidelines and publicly undermining the nation’s top infectious diseases expert, Anthony Fauci.

“Dr. Fauci is a nice man, but he’s made a lot of mistakes,” Trump told Fox News Channel host Sean Hannity in a call-in interview Thursday, pointing, in part, to changes in guidance on mask-wearing over time.

In his latest beef with the CDC, the president accused the Atlanta-based federal agency of “asking schools to do very impractical things” in order to reopen. The recommended measures include spacing students’ desks 6 feet apart, staggering start and arrival times, and teaching kids effective hygiene measures to try to prevent infections.

After Trump’s scolding comment, Vice President Mike Pence announced Wednesday that the CDC would be “issuing new guidance” that would “give all-new tools to our schools.”

But the agency’s director, Robert Redfield, pushed back amid criticism that he was bowing to pressure from the president.

“I want to clarify, really what we’re providing is different reference documents. … It’s not a revision of the guidelines,” he said the next day. Indeed, draft documents obtained by The Associated Press seem to confirm Redfield’s assertion, though officials stress the drafts are still under review.

Deputy White House press secretary Judd Deere issued a supportive statement Friday: “The White House and CDC have been working together in partnership since the very beginning of this pandemic to carry out the president’s highest priority: the health and safety of the American public.”

But the flap has touched a nerve amid increasing concern over how the administration has sidelined, muzzled and seemed to derail the CDC. Repeatedly now, the administration has shelved or altered CDC draft guidance, or even told the the agency to take down guidance it has already posted. That includes in early March, when administration officials overruled CDC doctors who wanted to recommend that elderly and physically fragile Americans be advised not to fly on commercial airlines because of the pandemic.

In May, officials removed some recommendations for reopening religious events hours after posting them, deleting guidance that discouraged choir gatherings and shared communion cups.

“Here we have at this time the 21st century’s biggest public health crisis, and the CDC has been shunted aside,” said William Schaffner, a professor of preventive medicine and infectious diseases at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville. They have “been sidelined and their voices — their clear, consistent, transparent voices — have been muffled or even completely silenced.”

While Trump has led the way, he’s not the only one sending messages contrary to those of public health officials. At a briefing this week by the White House coronavirus task force, Pence’s message to those in states like Texas, Florida, California and Arizona where cases are rising, was simple: “We believe the takeaway from this for every American, particularly in those states that are impacted, is: Keep doing what you’re doing.”

Not so, said Dr. Deborah Birx, the task force’s response coordinator. She said those states should instead close bars, end indoor dining and limit gatherings “back down to our phase one recommendation, which was 10 or less.”

Experts warn the U.S. has suffered from a lack of clear, science-based messaging during the pandemic — typically provided by the CDC. But Trump and the White House have kept the agency at arm’s length since the early days, when it botched development of a test kit, delaying tracking efforts.

Trump also grew enraged in late February when Dr. Nancy Messonnier — a CDC official who was then leading the agency’s coronavirus response but has since been sidelined — contradicted statements by other federal officials that the virus was contained.

“It’s not so much a question of if this will happen anymore, but rather more a question of exactly when,” Messonnier said, sending stocks plunging and infuriating Trump, even though she proved correct.

Many outside the White House also fault Redfield, who was appointed two years ago, for failing to adequately assert himself and his agency. Redfield does not have a close personal relationship with the president and has rubbed some at the White House the wrong way.

This week, before his later, tougher comments, Redfield appeared to old before Trump’s complaints, saying that the CDC guidelines should not “be used as a rationale to keep schools closed.”

“This is the opposite of good public health practice,” said Carl Bergstrom, a University of Washington evolutionary biologist who studies emerging infectious diseases. “You put guidelines out there about what’s necessary to keep people safe and then you expect people to follow them — not act disappointed if people follow them.”

The school re-opening controversy is just the latest chapter in a depressing tale, said Jason Schwartz, a government health policy expert at the Yale School of Public Health.

“This reflects a failure on the part of the CDC director to defend his agency, his scientists and the science through the pandemic. And this is what has led to this crisis in the CDC’s public standing, and frankly will take years to recover,” Schwartz said.

Some others expressed more sympathy for Redfield.

Vanderbilt’s Schaffner said that Redfield’s commitment to public health is clear, but said he nonetheless lacks the standing and forcefulness needed to influence the president’s thinking.

“His rhetorical style is nothing like what would be necessary for him to push back. And it’s unclear how much he could push back without being removed,” he said.

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AP writers Jeff Amy in Atlanta, Susan Montoya Bryan in New Mexico and Michelle Price in Nevada contributed. Stobbe reported from New York.

Trump Undercuts Health Experts — Again — In Schools Debate WASHINGTON — The White House seating chart spoke volumes. When the president convened a roundtable this week on how to safely reopen schools with coronavirus cases rising, the seats surrounding him were filled with parents, teachers and top White House officials, including the first and second ladies.

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As Youth Suicides Climb, Anguished Parents Begin To Speak Out

Alec Murray was 13. He enjoyed camping, fishing and skiing. At home, it was video games, movies and books. Having just completed middle school with “almost straight A’s,” those grades were going to earn him an iPhone for his upcoming birthday.

Instead, he killed himself on June 8 — the first day of summer break.

Caleb Stenvold was 14. He was a high school freshman in the gifted and talented program. He ran track and played defensive cornerback on his school’s football team. Just two months into high school ― and four months after Alec’s suicide — Caleb killed himself on Oct. 22.

The teenagers, both from Reno, Nevada, didn’t know each other. But their families now do, bonded by loss. Their parents are haunted by what they don’t understand: why.

They ― along with mental health experts, school leaders and researchers — are trying to understand why suicide by children ages 10 to 14 has gone up and up. The suicide rate for that age group almost tripled from 2007 to 2017. Newly released 2018 data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show a 16% increase over the previous year.

“Every family needs to have a conversation about suicide with their children — starting very young. Don’t just spring it on them when they’re 10,” says Paige Murray.(Lauren Casto for KHN)

While experts point to a host of explanations for the alarming rise, scientific proof about cause isn’t conclusive. Some research shows correlations with social media use, cyberbullying and the internet, but studies citing them as a suicide cause are less decisive.

The parents of Caleb and Alec believe impulsivity ― very common in teens because their brains aren’t fully developed — played a role in their suicides.

Kerri Countess, Caleb’s mother, called his suicide “totally unexpected and unimaginable.” He was the youngest of her five sons.

Paige Murray said son Alec “showed no signs of mental distress or depression or anxiety.”

“We think it was an incredibly impulsive act by a hormonal young man,” she said, noting that Alec’s stellar grades were posted online the day of his suicide.

Caleb was a high school freshman in the gifted and talented program. Just two months into high school ― and four months after Alec’s suicide — Caleb killed himself on Oct. 22. Caleb’s parents, Storm Stenvold and Kerri Countess, created a website dedicated to preventing youth suicide by promoting conversation and human connection.(Lauren Casto for KHN)

Experts suggest that our celebrity culture, where suicidal thoughts are sometimes romanticized or normalized, also plays a role. Alec’s parents and Caleb’s parents say they need to speak out and warn other families.

When Caleb died, “we wanted everyone to know he died of suicide because if it can happen to my child who was not bullied and did not fit into the reasons people kill themselves, it can happen to anyone,” Countess said. “It was an impulsive and immature act.”

Amy Kulp, executive director of the Washington, D.C.-based National Center for the Prevention of Youth Suicide, said youth, in particular, “have very few experiences with dealing with outside stressors” and “tend to be quite impulsive.”

“If they have a precipitating event like they are bullied or don’t make a team or a friend stops talking to them or something is on social media that they’re embarrassed about,” she said, “they don’t know they will get through it.”

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Kulp said the rise in suicide among the youngest adolescents has spawned prevention programs targeting elementary and middle schoolers, teaching things like resilience, wellness, self-care and coping behaviors.

Psychologist Mary Alvord said she’s been seeing “younger and younger kids” in her practice.

“At ages 6, 7 and 8, I’m now seeing kids with depression,” said Alvord, of Rockville, Maryland. “It used to be suicide attempts were more in high school. Now, I’m seeing more completed suicides in middle school and even upper elementary school.”

The CDC data illustrate “a steady consistent increase,” that “deserves our focus and our attention,” said CDC statistician Sally Curtin. “It’s linear and has gone up every single year since 2010.”

The CDC also monitors suicide attempts and self-inflicted injuries, based on data from emergency rooms. The latest CDC report published Jan. 31 found that from 2001 to 2016 such visits for those 10 and older increased 42%, with “substantial increases occurring in younger age groups.”

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During the most recent study period, from January 2017 to December 2018, such visits increased more than 25%. For girls ages 10 to 14, data from 2009 to 2015 reflects almost a 20% increase in emergency visits for self-inflicted injury.

Youth today are much more familiar with death, said Jonathan Singer, board president of the nonprofit American Association of Suicidology, citing more than 20 years of mass shootings at schools among reasons.

“Death has become public,” he said. “With the internet and social media, when somebody dies, it’s all over your newsfeed. Hundreds of millions knew within minutes that Kobe Bryant had died. Death is much more a part of their generation.”

Among those aiming to reverse the trend is the National Association of State Boards of Education, based in Alexandria, Virginia, which examined the 2017-18 school year and determined that 25 states and the District of Columbia required or encouraged school districts to develop suicide prevention policies.

The parents of Alec and Caleb are moving past blame into action. Lee and Paige Murray (on couch) are working with the Reno Behavioral Healthcare Hospital and other agencies to better coordinate local suicide prevention.(Lauren Casto for KHN)

According to the organization’s policy review, author Megan Blanco said only three of 10 states with the highest youth suicide rates (ages 10-24) had a suicide prevention policy. The youth suicide rate for Nevada — where Alec and Caleb lived ― is 14.4 deaths per 100,000, which is higher than the national average of 10.6 deaths per 100,000. Nevada was not among the 25 states with a prevention policy, she said.

Alvord, the psychologist, has conducted programs to promote suicide awareness as a joint effort of National PTA and the American Psychological Association. She also helped APA develop online advice for parents to talk to teens about suicide.

Dr. Kenneth Ginsburg, a pediatrician and an adolescent medicine specialist at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, co-founded the Center for Parent and Teen Communication.

“It’s never a mistake to ask a person about their emotions or whether [someone should] be worried about them,” he said.

“People think depression is always seen as sadness,” Ginsburg said. “While sadness is a very important clue, adolescent depression can present with irritability, rage or anger, instead of just sadness. Physical symptoms such as headaches, fatigue, belly pain, dizziness, loss of weight ― these are all things that can present as having problems with mood or depression. Parents may miss the signals.”

The day after his death, Caleb’s parents sought answers on his phone and computer, asking their son Matthew, then 16, to search Caleb’s history back to middle school for possible clues. They found one thing: a search for “suicide” the day before Caleb hanged himself.

Nadine Kaslow, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, said parents need to realize that kids communicate differently today and any thought of banning social media or phones isn’t realistic or wise.

“Parents often get mad at kids because they’re texting or Instagramming or Snapchatting,” she said. “I worry when kids are not doing those things. If they stop doing that, they’re not having fun.”

Jean Twenge, a psychology professor at San Diego State University and author of the book “iGen,” has a darker view of the effects of media consumption and technology, based upon her research. Studies published in several journals in recent years — including the Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Psychiatric Quarterly and Sleep Medicine — found detrimental connections between the omnipresent smartphone, social media, sleep disruption and depression.

A memorial to Caleb Stenvold, who took his life at age 14, holds a place of honor in his home.(Lauren Casto for KHN)

The mother of three (including a 13-year-old) believes technology should not be in a child’s room overnight, and she doesn’t believe anyone 10 to 14 “absolutely needs a smartphone.”

Twenge said it’s difficult to determine a reason other than technology for the suicide spike in recent years.

“Phones and smartphones check all the boxes of possible causes,” she said. “It’s something that’s affected a very large number of people and affected their everyday lives. It’s hard to think of anything else that fits that criteria.”

Perhaps the most significant analysis supporting Twenge’s worries appeared this month in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. The evidence from cross-sectional, longitudinal and empirical studies “implicates smartphone and social media use in the increase in mental distress, self-injurious behaviour and suicidality among youth.” The review also found that social media “can affect adolescents’ self-view and interpersonal relationships through social comparison and negative interactions, including cyberbullying; moreover, social media content often involves normalization and even promotion of self-harm and suicidality among youth.”

A Pew Research Center report on cyberbullying released in 2018 found 56% of 13- to 14-year-olds had experienced cyberbullying; more than one-third said they had been the victim of offensive name-calling or false rumors.

Their parents said neither Alec nor Caleb were bullied. But many others are.

“We don’t know if bullying is the cause, or if kids who are depressed make better targets for a bully,” said Justin Patchin, co-director of the Cyberbullying Research Center.

Henry Kautz, a professor of computer science at the University of Rochester in New York, sees a similar dynamic with technology.

“People have been quick to point to studies that show increases in screen time and increases in depression. But it’s really unclear which way the causation goes,” he said. “Are people who are bullied and isolated seeking refuge in more screen time or is it the other way around?”

Caleb’s parents created Forever14.org, a website dedicated to preventing youth suicide by promoting conversation and human connection. They have filed paperwork to create a nonprofit with the same mission.(Lauren Casto for KHN)

The parents of Alec and Caleb are moving past blame into action. The Murrays are working with the Reno Behavioral Healthcare Hospital and other agencies to better coordinate local suicide prevention. Caleb’s parents created Forever14.org, a website dedicated to promoting conversation and human connection in order to prevent teen suicide. They have filed paperwork to create a nonprofit with the same mission.

“Don’t think it’s too young to talk to your kids about if they might feel like hurting themselves. You might think you have time to tell them, but you can’t go back,” Caleb’s father, Storm Stenvold, said. “I don’t know what pain he was in for that time that he felt he needed to do this. He decided on this very quickly. He was rarely alone. He was home less than three hours by himself.”

Paige Murray agrees, which is why she and her husband, Lee, said they weren’t going to be silent about Alec’s suicide.

“Every family needs to have a conversation about suicide with their children —starting very young. Don’t just spring it on them when they’re 10,” she said. “It should be part of everyday conversation about loving yourself and making sure tomorrow is another day. Make sure it becomes a part of everyday knowledge.”

“This wasn’t a conversation that ever entered our house until June 8, but knowing what we know now, it should be. We were blindsided by it,” Lee Murray said. “It’s hindsight. We could have done better, but how would you know?”

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As Youth Suicides Climb, Anguished Parents Begin To Speak Out

Alec Murray was 13. He enjoyed camping, fishing and skiing. At home, it was video games, movies and books. Having just completed middle school with “almost straight A’s,” those grades were going to earn him an iPhone for his upcoming birthday.

Instead, he killed himself on June 8 — the first day of summer break.

Caleb Stenvold was 14. He was a high school freshman in the gifted and talented program. He ran track and played defensive cornerback on his school’s football team. Just two months into high school ― and four months after Alec’s suicide — Caleb killed himself on Oct. 22.

The teenagers, both from Reno, Nevada, didn’t know each other. But their families now do, bonded by loss. Their parents are haunted by what they don’t understand: why.

They ― along with mental health experts, school leaders and researchers — are trying to understand why suicide by children ages 10 to 14 has gone up and up. The suicide rate for that age group almost tripled from 2007 to 2017. Newly released 2018 data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show a 16% increase over the previous year.

“Every family needs to have a conversation about suicide with their children — starting very young. Don’t just spring it on them when they’re 10,” says Paige Murray.(Lauren Casto for KHN)

While experts point to a host of explanations for the alarming rise, scientific proof about cause isn’t conclusive. Some research shows correlations with social media use, cyberbullying and the internet, but studies citing them as a suicide cause are less decisive.

The parents of Caleb and Alec believe impulsivity ― very common in teens because their brains aren’t fully developed — played a role in their suicides.

Kerri Countess, Caleb’s mother, called his suicide “totally unexpected and unimaginable.” He was the youngest of her five sons.

Paige Murray said son Alec “showed no signs of mental distress or depression or anxiety.”

“We think it was an incredibly impulsive act by a hormonal young man,” she said, noting that Alec’s stellar grades were posted online the day of his suicide.

Caleb was a high school freshman in the gifted and talented program. Just two months into high school ― and four months after Alec’s suicide — Caleb killed himself on Oct. 22. Caleb’s parents, Storm Stenvold and Kerri Countess, created a website dedicated to preventing youth suicide by promoting conversation and human connection.(Lauren Casto for KHN)

Experts suggest that our celebrity culture, where suicidal thoughts are sometimes romanticized or normalized, also plays a role. Alec’s parents and Caleb’s parents say they need to speak out and warn other families.

When Caleb died, “we wanted everyone to know he died of suicide because if it can happen to my child who was not bullied and did not fit into the reasons people kill themselves, it can happen to anyone,” Countess said. “It was an impulsive and immature act.”

Amy Kulp, executive director of the Washington, D.C.-based National Center for the Prevention of Youth Suicide, said youth, in particular, “have very few experiences with dealing with outside stressors” and “tend to be quite impulsive.”

“If they have a precipitating event like they are bullied or don’t make a team or a friend stops talking to them or something is on social media that they’re embarrassed about,” she said, “they don’t know they will get through it.”

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Kulp said the rise in suicide among the youngest adolescents has spawned prevention programs targeting elementary and middle schoolers, teaching things like resilience, wellness, self-care and coping behaviors.

Psychologist Mary Alvord said she’s been seeing “younger and younger kids” in her practice.

“At ages 6, 7 and 8, I’m now seeing kids with depression,” said Alvord, of Rockville, Maryland. “It used to be suicide attempts were more in high school. Now, I’m seeing more completed suicides in middle school and even upper elementary school.”

The CDC data illustrate “a steady consistent increase,” that “deserves our focus and our attention,” said CDC statistician Sally Curtin. “It’s linear and has gone up every single year since 2010.”

The CDC also monitors suicide attempts and self-inflicted injuries, based on data from emergency rooms. The latest CDC report published Jan. 31 found that from 2001 to 2016 such visits for those 10 and older increased 42%, with “substantial increases occurring in younger age groups.”

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During the most recent study period, from January 2017 to December 2018, such visits increased more than 25%. For girls ages 10 to 14, data from 2009 to 2015 reflects almost a 20% increase in emergency visits for self-inflicted injury.

Youth today are much more familiar with death, said Jonathan Singer, board president of the nonprofit American Association of Suicidology, citing more than 20 years of mass shootings at schools among reasons.

“Death has become public,” he said. “With the internet and social media, when somebody dies, it’s all over your newsfeed. Hundreds of millions knew within minutes that Kobe Bryant had died. Death is much more a part of their generation.”

Among those aiming to reverse the trend is the National Association of State Boards of Education, based in Alexandria, Virginia, which examined the 2017-18 school year and determined that 25 states and the District of Columbia required or encouraged school districts to develop suicide prevention policies.

The parents of Alec and Caleb are moving past blame into action. Lee and Paige Murray (on couch) are working with the Reno Behavioral Healthcare Hospital and other agencies to better coordinate local suicide prevention.(Lauren Casto for KHN)

According to the organization’s policy review, author Megan Blanco said only three of 10 states with the highest youth suicide rates (ages 10-24) had a suicide prevention policy. The youth suicide rate for Nevada — where Alec and Caleb lived ― is 14.4 deaths per 100,000, which is higher than the national average of 10.6 deaths per 100,000. Nevada was not among the 25 states with a prevention policy, she said.

Alvord, the psychologist, has conducted programs to promote suicide awareness as a joint effort of National PTA and the American Psychological Association. She also helped APA develop online advice for parents to talk to teens about suicide.

Dr. Kenneth Ginsburg, a pediatrician and an adolescent medicine specialist at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, co-founded the Center for Parent and Teen Communication.

“It’s never a mistake to ask a person about their emotions or whether [someone should] be worried about them,” he said.

“People think depression is always seen as sadness,” Ginsburg said. “While sadness is a very important clue, adolescent depression can present with irritability, rage or anger, instead of just sadness. Physical symptoms such as headaches, fatigue, belly pain, dizziness, loss of weight ― these are all things that can present as having problems with mood or depression. Parents may miss the signals.”

The day after his death, Caleb’s parents sought answers on his phone and computer, asking their son Matthew, then 16, to search Caleb’s history back to middle school for possible clues. They found one thing: a search for “suicide” the day before Caleb hanged himself.

Nadine Kaslow, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, said parents need to realize that kids communicate differently today and any thought of banning social media or phones isn’t realistic or wise.

“Parents often get mad at kids because they’re texting or Instagramming or Snapchatting,” she said. “I worry when kids are not doing those things. If they stop doing that, they’re not having fun.”

Jean Twenge, a psychology professor at San Diego State University and author of the book “iGen,” has a darker view of the effects of media consumption and technology, based upon her research. Studies published in several journals in recent years — including the Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Psychiatric Quarterly and Sleep Medicine — found detrimental connections between the omnipresent smartphone, social media, sleep disruption and depression.

A memorial to Caleb Stenvold, who took his life at age 14, holds a place of honor in his home.(Lauren Casto for KHN)

The mother of three (including a 13-year-old) believes technology should not be in a child’s room overnight, and she doesn’t believe anyone 10 to 14 “absolutely needs a smartphone.”

Twenge said it’s difficult to determine a reason other than technology for the suicide spike in recent years.

“Phones and smartphones check all the boxes of possible causes,” she said. “It’s something that’s affected a very large number of people and affected their everyday lives. It’s hard to think of anything else that fits that criteria.”

Perhaps the most significant analysis supporting Twenge’s worries appeared this month in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. The evidence from cross-sectional, longitudinal and empirical studies “implicates smartphone and social media use in the increase in mental distress, self-injurious behaviour and suicidality among youth.” The review also found that social media “can affect adolescents’ self-view and interpersonal relationships through social comparison and negative interactions, including cyberbullying; moreover, social media content often involves normalization and even promotion of self-harm and suicidality among youth.”

A Pew Research Center report on cyberbullying released in 2018 found 56% of 13- to 14-year-olds had experienced cyberbullying; more than one-third said they had been the victim of offensive name-calling or false rumors.

Their parents said neither Alec nor Caleb were bullied. But many others are.

“We don’t know if bullying is the cause, or if kids who are depressed make better targets for a bully,” said Justin Patchin, co-director of the Cyberbullying Research Center.

Henry Kautz, a professor of computer science at the University of Rochester in New York, sees a similar dynamic with technology.

“People have been quick to point to studies that show increases in screen time and increases in depression. But it’s really unclear which way the causation goes,” he said. “Are people who are bullied and isolated seeking refuge in more screen time or is it the other way around?”

Caleb’s parents created Forever14.org, a website dedicated to preventing youth suicide by promoting conversation and human connection. They have filed paperwork to create a nonprofit with the same mission.(Lauren Casto for KHN)

The parents of Alec and Caleb are moving past blame into action. The Murrays are working with the Reno Behavioral Healthcare Hospital and other agencies to better coordinate local suicide prevention. Caleb’s parents created Forever14.org, a website dedicated to promoting conversation and human connection in order to prevent teen suicide. They have filed paperwork to create a nonprofit with the same mission.

��Don’t think it’s too young to talk to your kids about if they might feel like hurting themselves. You might think you have time to tell them, but you can’t go back,” Caleb’s father, Storm Stenvold, said. “I don’t know what pain he was in for that time that he felt he needed to do this. He decided on this very quickly. He was rarely alone. He was home less than three hours by himself.”

Paige Murray agrees, which is why she and her husband, Lee, said they weren’t going to be silent about Alec’s suicide.

“Every family needs to have a conversation about suicide with their children —starting very young. Don’t just spring it on them when they’re 10,” she said. “It should be part of everyday conversation about loving yourself and making sure tomorrow is another day. Make sure it becomes a part of everyday knowledge.”

“This wasn’t a conversation that ever entered our house until June 8, but knowing what we know now, it should be. We were blindsided by it,” Lee Murray said. “It’s hindsight. We could have done better, but how would you know?”

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As Youth Suicides Climb, Anguished Parents Begin To Speak Out

Alec Murray was 13. He enjoyed camping, fishing and skiing. At home, it was video games, movies and books. Having just completed middle school with “almost straight A’s,” those grades were going to earn him an iPhone for his upcoming birthday.

Instead, he killed himself on June 8 — the first day of summer break.

Caleb Stenvold was 14. He was a high school freshman in the gifted and talented program. He ran track and played defensive cornerback on his school’s football team. Just two months into high school ― and four months after Alec’s suicide — Caleb killed himself on Oct. 22.

The teenagers, both from Reno, Nevada, didn’t know each other. But their families now do, bonded by loss. Their parents are haunted by what they don’t understand: why.

They ― along with mental health experts, school leaders and researchers — are trying to understand why suicide by children ages 10 to 14 has gone up and up. The suicide rate for that age group almost tripled from 2007 to 2017. Newly released 2018 data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show a 16% increase over the previous year.

“Every family needs to have a conversation about suicide with their children — starting very young. Don’t just spring it on them when they’re 10,” says Paige Murray.(Lauren Casto for KHN)

While experts point to a host of explanations for the alarming rise, scientific proof about cause isn’t conclusive. Some research shows correlations with social media use, cyberbullying and the internet, but studies citing them as a suicide cause are less decisive.

The parents of Caleb and Alec believe impulsivity ― very common in teens because their brains aren’t fully developed — played a role in their suicides.

Kerri Countess, Caleb’s mother, called his suicide “totally unexpected and unimaginable.” He was the youngest of her five sons.

Paige Murray said son Alec “showed no signs of mental distress or depression or anxiety.”

“We think it was an incredibly impulsive act by a hormonal young man,” she said, noting that Alec’s stellar grades were posted online the day of his suicide.

Caleb was a high school freshman in the gifted and talented program. Just two months into high school ― and four months after Alec’s suicide — Caleb killed himself on Oct. 22. Caleb’s parents, Storm Stenvold and Kerri Countess, created a website dedicated to preventing youth suicide by promoting conversation and human connection.(Lauren Casto for KHN)

Experts suggest that our celebrity culture, where suicidal thoughts are sometimes romanticized or normalized, also plays a role. Alec’s parents and Caleb’s parents say they need to speak out and warn other families.

When Caleb died, “we wanted everyone to know he died of suicide because if it can happen to my child who was not bullied and did not fit into the reasons people kill themselves, it can happen to anyone,” Countess said. “It was an impulsive and immature act.”

Amy Kulp, executive director of the Washington, D.C.-based National Center for the Prevention of Youth Suicide, said youth, in particular, “have very few experiences with dealing with outside stressors” and “tend to be quite impulsive.”

“If they have a precipitating event like they are bullied or don’t make a team or a friend stops talking to them or something is on social media that they’re embarrassed about,” she said, “they don’t know they will get through it.”

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Kulp said the rise in suicide among the youngest adolescents has spawned prevention programs targeting elementary and middle schoolers, teaching things like resilience, wellness, self-care and coping behaviors.

Psychologist Mary Alvord said she’s been seeing “younger and younger kids” in her practice.

“At ages 6, 7 and 8, I’m now seeing kids with depression,” said Alvord, of Rockville, Maryland. “It used to be suicide attempts were more in high school. Now, I’m seeing more completed suicides in middle school and even upper elementary school.”

The CDC data illustrate “a steady consistent increase,” that “deserves our focus and our attention,” said CDC statistician Sally Curtin. “It’s linear and has gone up every single year since 2010.”

The CDC also monitors suicide attempts and self-inflicted injuries, based on data from emergency rooms. The latest CDC report published Jan. 31 found that from 2001 to 2016 such visits for those 10 and older increased 42%, with “substantial increases occurring in younger age groups.”

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During the most recent study period, from January 2017 to December 2018, such visits increased more than 25%. For girls ages 10 to 14, data from 2009 to 2015 reflects almost a 20% increase in emergency visits for self-inflicted injury.

Youth today are much more familiar with death, said Jonathan Singer, board president of the nonprofit American Association of Suicidology, citing more than 20 years of mass shootings at schools among reasons.

“Death has become public,” he said. “With the internet and social media, when somebody dies, it’s all over your newsfeed. Hundreds of millions knew within minutes that Kobe Bryant had died. Death is much more a part of their generation.”

Among those aiming to reverse the trend is the National Association of State Boards of Education, based in Alexandria, Virginia, which examined the 2017-18 school year and determined that 25 states and the District of Columbia required or encouraged school districts to develop suicide prevention policies.

The parents of Alec and Caleb are moving past blame into action. Lee and Paige Murray (on couch) are working with the Reno Behavioral Healthcare Hospital and other agencies to better coordinate local suicide prevention.(Lauren Casto for KHN)

According to the organization’s policy review, author Megan Blanco said only three of 10 states with the highest youth suicide rates (ages 10-24) had a suicide prevention policy. The youth suicide rate for Nevada — where Alec and Caleb lived ― is 14.4 deaths per 100,000, which is higher than the national average of 10.6 deaths per 100,000. Nevada was not among the 25 states with a prevention policy, she said.

Alvord, the psychologist, has conducted programs to promote suicide awareness as a joint effort of National PTA and the American Psychological Association. She also helped APA develop online advice for parents to talk to teens about suicide.

Dr. Kenneth Ginsburg, a pediatrician and an adolescent medicine specialist at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, co-founded the Center for Parent and Teen Communication.

“It’s never a mistake to ask a person about their emotions or whether [someone should] be worried about them,” he said.

“People think depression is always seen as sadness,” Ginsburg said. “While sadness is a very important clue, adolescent depression can present with irritability, rage or anger, instead of just sadness. Physical symptoms such as headaches, fatigue, belly pain, dizziness, loss of weight ― these are all things that can present as having problems with mood or depression. Parents may miss the signals.”

The day after his death, Caleb’s parents sought answers on his phone and computer, asking their son Matthew, then 16, to search Caleb’s history back to middle school for possible clues. They found one thing: a search for “suicide” the day before Caleb hanged himself.

Nadine Kaslow, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, said parents need to realize that kids communicate differently today and any thought of banning social media or phones isn’t realistic or wise.

“Parents often get mad at kids because they’re texting or Instagramming or Snapchatting,” she said. “I worry when kids are not doing those things. If they stop doing that, they’re not having fun.”

Jean Twenge, a psychology professor at San Diego State University and author of the book “iGen,” has a darker view of the effects of media consumption and technology, based upon her research. Studies published in several journals in recent years — including the Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Psychiatric Quarterly and Sleep Medicine — found detrimental connections between the omnipresent smartphone, social media, sleep disruption and depression.

A memorial to Caleb Stenvold, who took his life at age 14, holds a place of honor in his home.(Lauren Casto for KHN)

The mother of three (including a 13-year-old) believes technology should not be in a child’s room overnight, and she doesn’t believe anyone 10 to 14 “absolutely needs a smartphone.”

Twenge said it’s difficult to determine a reason other than technology for the suicide spike in recent years.

“Phones and smartphones check all the boxes of possible causes,” she said. “It’s something that’s affected a very large number of people and affected their everyday lives. It’s hard to think of anything else that fits that criteria.”

Perhaps the most significant analysis supporting Twenge’s worries appeared this month in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. The evidence from cross-sectional, longitudinal and empirical studies “implicates smartphone and social media use in the increase in mental distress, self-injurious behaviour and suicidality among youth.” The review also found that social media “can affect adolescents’ self-view and interpersonal relationships through social comparison and negative interactions, including cyberbullying; moreover, social media content often involves normalization and even promotion of self-harm and suicidality among youth.”

A Pew Research Center report on cyberbullying released in 2018 found 56% of 13- to 14-year-olds had experienced cyberbullying; more than one-third said they had been the victim of offensive name-calling or false rumors.

Their parents said neither Alec nor Caleb were bullied. But many others are.

“We don’t know if bullying is the cause, or if kids who are depressed make better targets for a bully,” said Justin Patchin, co-director of the Cyberbullying Research Center.

Henry Kautz, a professor of computer science at the University of Rochester in New York, sees a similar dynamic with technology.

“People have been quick to point to studies that show increases in screen time and increases in depression. But it’s really unclear which way the causation goes,” he said. “Are people who are bullied and isolated seeking refuge in more screen time or is it the other way around?”

Caleb’s parents created Forever14.org, a website dedicated to preventing youth suicide by promoting conversation and human connection. They have filed paperwork to create a nonprofit with the same mission.(Lauren Casto for KHN)

The parents of Alec and Caleb are moving past blame into action. The Murrays are working with the Reno Behavioral Healthcare Hospital and other agencies to better coordinate local suicide prevention. Caleb’s parents created Forever14.org, a website dedicated to promoting conversation and human connection in order to prevent teen suicide. They have filed paperwork to create a nonprofit with the same mission.

“Don’t think it’s too young to talk to your kids about if they might feel like hurting themselves. You might think you have time to tell them, but you can’t go back,” Caleb’s father, Storm Stenvold, said. “I don’t know what pain he was in for that time that he felt he needed to do this. He decided on this very quickly. He was rarely alone. He was home less than three hours by himself.”

Paige Murray agrees, which is why she and her husband, Lee, said they weren’t going to be silent about Alec’s suicide.

“Every family needs to have a conversation about suicide with their children —starting very young. Don’t just spring it on them when they’re 10,” she said. “It should be part of everyday conversation about loving yourself and making sure tomorrow is another day. Make sure it becomes a part of everyday knowledge.”

“This wasn’t a conversation that ever entered our house until June 8, but knowing what we know now, it should be. We were blindsided by it,” Lee Murray said. “It’s hindsight. We could have done better, but how would you know?”

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