My son Elijah died one month before his 22nd birthday. This is a sample of what I shared on Facebook right after he died. I wanted 100 people to share it and I hoped it would help one person.
Have you ever said to yourself, “Where did all my money go?” Most people underestimate their spending by about twenty percent. The average millennial spends about $3,500 a year on coffee.
People who are aware of Chestnut’s services know that we offer help for those who suffer from mental illness and substance use disorder; however, many still don’t realize that Chestnut has a Family Health Center that offers primary medical care for all ages and genders.
According to the historian Jill Lepore, the term “burnout” did not exist until 1973. That was when Herbert J. Freudenberger used the term to describe the peculiar kind of exhaustion among healthcare workers at the San Francisco free clinic he managed.
Too often, I sit in meetings and discuss how we can decrease or ideally eliminate stigma. I can’t even begin to tell you the number of hours I have spent in these discussions over the past four decades.