Jill Emmelhainz
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first heard Jul 2016
last heard Jul 2016
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at home with medication with the therapist, she usually has two to three, maybe four significant meltdowns a week because of anxiety.
When we got out there in the woods.
In that six weeks she had one partial meltdown and that was all.
Oh, I'm glad to talk.
Yep, that's correct.
Yeah, as you said, we've got a big family.
We've got seven kids and at this point Anna is the only one still left at home.
The rest are grown and on their own.
And Anna has had mental health issues that she struggled with first diagnosed when she was five.
And it's a whole alphabet soup of different diagnoses, but the most significant issue we struggle with is her overwhelming anxiety that causes her at times to shut down.
Other times she melts down with, you know, screaming or crying or rages.
Uh, when she's just overwhelmed with all of the sensory chaos that's around her.
We've discovered that from when she was very young that when she can be outdoors.
that seems to help calm her down.
There's there's less anxiety when she's not around man made chaos.
So that's very often, you know, for her younger years, that just meant she spent a lot of time outdoors in the backyard playing.
We tried to spend a lot of time going to playgrounds.
But even there, there's a lot of other kids running around, a lot more chaos.
And so we figured out, well, let's try
Parks, city parks.
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