{"id":2088,"date":"2011-08-17T16:43:22","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T16:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newhavenrtc786.e.wpstage.net\/blog\/?p=676"},"modified":"2024-03-06T16:03:09","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T23:03:09","slug":"family-crisis-opportunity-to-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newhavenrtc.com\/parenting-teens\/family-crisis-opportunity-to-grow\/","title":{"rendered":"Turning Crisis Into Opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
When a family faces a true mental health crisis it often feels sudden regardless of the warning signs. That\u2019s denial at work! In the panic that ensues, the focus is naturally on triage, which typically takes the form of intervention, treatment, therapy and medication. Unfortunately, once the immediacy of the crisis has passed and the situation is stabilized many families fail to engage the real opportunity for healing, which presents itself in the wake of crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you\u2019ve experienced a mental health emergency in your family and the crisis<\/a> has effectively been triaged, you\u2019re likely a bit raw, a bit confused, a bit exhausted, maybe a little scared. In word\u2026you\u2019re open! This openness won\u2019t necessarily last. Soon enough the emotional wound will scab and then scar and you\u2019ll have the dangerous luxury of returning to life as usual. Like physical scar tissue, emotional scars can freeze you up and lock you into an awkward position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now \u2013while your open, flexible and a little messy inside\u2014is the best time to break the old habits that festered into dysfunction in the first place and create some new ones. The good news is that a lot of personal growth work can be awfully nice! Following are several areas to explore that can complement the intervention, treatment, therapy and medication your family has just experienced, leading to longer-term healing instead of just emotional triage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Think of these activities as physical therapy, but for the soul!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Following a family crisis\u2013while your still open, flexible and a little messy inside\u2014is the best time to break the old habits that festered into dysfunction in the first place and create some new ones. The good news is that a lot of personal growth work can be awfully nice! Following are several areas to explore that can complement the intervention, treatment, therapy and medication your family has just experienced, leading to longer-term healing instead of just emotional triage. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":10683,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[34,36,54,41,42,55,47,33,56,50,85],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newhavenrtc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newhavenrtc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newhavenrtc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newhavenrtc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newhavenrtc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2088"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.newhavenrtc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18666,"href":"https:\/\/www.newhavenrtc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088\/revisions\/18666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newhavenrtc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newhavenrtc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newhavenrtc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newhavenrtc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n