Mad River Behavioral Health

Copyright All rights reserved by  Ken Little - New Hampshire “Good Judgement comes from experience, 90% of which is based on bad judgement.” (source unknown) This wisdom was taped to the kitchen cupboard in my family's kitchen throughout my adolescent years. I’m convinced it was my mother’s survival mantra; her daily reassurance that all would be well in the future, that all of the mistakes I made were guiding me toward developing good judgment. It worked and I did, but to be perfectly honest, my survival was not assured by any stretch of the imagination. Things could very easily have turned out differently, very badly in fact. Things did turn out badly for many young people growing up at the same time.  Too many of my peers during high school and in the years shortly after died, but many more were impacted by lasting and often debilitating injuries, for example: skiing dangerously, jumping off cliffs into quarries, driving dangerously, and using drugs...