Mood disorders are not a disease of the mind but are in fact maladaptive coping mechanisms no longer appropriate to current conditons.  They served a purpose but need to evolve.

ACE Questionnaire: Adverse Childhood Experience Questionnaire.  Ten questions, but could have easily have been hundreds of questions.

Grab a notebook and pen and start taking notes.  Particularly take note of things that "click off" in your head.  Writing promotes introspection.

Grand total of yes answers: Beth - Seven, Daniel - Six.

The implications of a high score on the ACE Questionnaire have profound implications.  A high score can in some sense provide validation for understanding the challenges encountered in adult life.  Keep in mind that adverse childhood experiences can also be the source of unique talents and capacities.

The hosts of MoCo are responsible for what they say and how they say, not for how it is heard and how it makes the listener feel.

"Eat the meat and spit out the bones."

The management of care during an emergency room mental health admit (call it "the acute phase") should be significantly different than the management of long term mental health care (or the "chronic phase").

Inner child work: addressing the childhood experiences that carry on through adulthood.  Daniel proposes that inner child work is more like inner adult work.

"Blaming and shaming" is dis-empowering...and annoying.

A child cannot cognitively choose their coping skills.  An adult can and must!

Inner child work is becoming the parent to yourself.