Mental Health Preparedness: My experience with mental illness growing up adopted

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What I Was Really Avoiding: Jay Barbanel on Adoption, Therapy & Healing

Jay Barbanel, author of *Finding Tico*, unpacks what he spent two decades avoiding, and what it took to finally choose healing over silence.

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Mental Health Preparedness: My experience with mental illness growing up adopted

L. Calder 12/7/22 L. Calder 12/7/22

Mental Health Preparedness: My experience with mental illness growing up adopted

I discovered these quotes on a fact sheet I found among my 1978-79 adoption documents after my parents’ deaths.

Adoptees Are Human Beings, Not Talking Points for the Abortion Debate.

Kristen 9/22/22 Kristen 9/22/22

Adoptees Are Human Beings, Not Talking Points for the Abortion Debate.

Since receiving confirmation of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v Wade- Tweets, memes and TikTok videos challenging anti choicers to “adopt all the unwanted babies” are going more viral than ever.

Dinner in Toronto: My First Traditional Korean Meal

J. Park 9/22/22 J. Park 9/22/22

Dinner in Toronto: My First Traditional Korean Meal

Dates, months, or events rarely hold a “special space” in my life, but May 21st changed that.

Most non-adopted people oversimplify and invalidate the grief of adoptees because they assume that our families are just like other families.

Adoptee Land by Kristen, Adoptee Contributor

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It’s such a curious thing how being relinquished is never talked about with sorrow; but instead with applaud for the adoptive parents.

Adoption, Shame & Cocktail Parties by Amy, Adoptee Contributor

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I played the role of being a chameleon; not realizing the toxicity of what I was doing in allowing people to mislabel me.

Latina Mislabeled by Martha, Adoptee Contributor

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