Caring for the Mentally Ill, Selenium Supplements, Fears and Phobias, and More

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In Tonic, Dr. Norman Swan leads a team of reporters who cover all aspects of health, from lifestyle to complementary medicines to the most recent medical discoveries. Topics covered in this episode include: *The Impact on Children of Growing Up with a Parent Who Suffers from Mental Illness: A staggering one in two of us will have a mental illness at some point in our lives. For most people that means anxiety or depression, but a significant proportion will have severe mental illness. Many of those people have children, so how does their condition affect the mental health of their offspring? We meet an incredible man who grew up with a schizophrenic parent; we find out how it affected him and learn about the amazing program he's created to help kids in the same position. Then, we meet the mother of a 29-year-old woman with mental illness. Caring for someone with psychosis is particularly tough and can push the limits of a mother's love to the very edge. We hear about her experiences.