Mad River Behavioral Health

Getting to the “Hurt of the Matter ❤️” When you get angry with your partner, spouse, close friend, etc., the most likely reason is because your feeling were hurt by something the said or did.   Anger is such a powerful and rapid emotional response that it sweeps the hurt feelings away and presents a strong bulwark of self defense.  If you can pause for a moment, take a step back and consider, you might be able to find the hurt again and discuss the real problem.  This approach is preferable to and more constructive than mutilating your loved one under a barrage of rage.  ******** Surely this tidbit is worth a $1. Send #Bitcoin.  Bitcoin address: 3PiHR1XsRqrpX4vKuKBbXKqM9fVLRpvoTa

  I use to work inside this horribly depressed, angry, agitated company.  Ironically, it was a mental health facility.  *** I’ve never seen so many employees return from meetings with a particularly abusive senior manager crying. This is super duper HR fail. It is a super senior management team fail. It is a super leadership fail. And, it is a super big board of directors fail. But it was not just this one toxic senior manager.  It was the organization as a whole. I’ve never seen so much inter-personnel animosity. I’ve never seen so much wide-spread demoralization anywhere, at any company I’ve ever worked at over my decades of work experience.  This was quite simply the worst place I have ever worked.  The senior manager, although super abusive and toxic, wasn’t responsible for the wide-spread demoralization and hostility throughout the company. He certainly was injecting a ton more yuck into the company, but he didn’t touch all of its moving parts. There w...

When you arrive home from work ... your family should be happy to see you. Contemplate this. Part of my professional perspective has been informed by my personal parenting adventures, or more accurately - misadventures.  (Ask me about the popcorn incident some day.)  It's truly amazing what one can learn by living fully immersed within the situation one teaches about. Just briefly, my wife died when our two sons, Jake and Braden, were 4 and 5 years old.  She had been struggling with cancer for quite a while and as she became more and more debilitated, I took over more and more of what had been a beautiful shared parenting partnership. I won't go into the gruesome details, but ... my transition into single parenthood was not a fluid, seamless process.  There were some very real struggles for me as I adapted to the solo role.  Sometimes, these struggles spilled out onto the boys.  It wasn't pretty.  The first lesson I learned was how to regr...

Anger management If you want your children to be able to take space in order to calm down, you will need to be very good at taking space to calm down.  Parenting is leadership by example. More on this soon.