Adoption | Depression, Anxiety, and Addiction

The Surprising Correllation Between Adoption and Mood Disorders/Addiction

By Tom Rees, on November 15th, 2011%

When I look at the adopted kids I know or knew and look at the number of them that have died or had severe problems it is so out of balance with non-adopted people I know there has got to be another explanation. Well, if you were adopted and are having problems, maybe the following paper contains some answers. If you were adopted, this is meant to soothe your questions, not stir up more of … Read More

Adoption Follow-up: Message to Parents of Adoptees

By Tom Rees, on November 15th, 2011%

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I needed my counselor to help convince my mother that a relationship with my birth mother could be a very healthy thing for me. My mother’s initial response after I met her (my birth mother) and indicated I wanted to stay in touch was “why would you want to know a woman who carried you around like a baby in a test-tube for 9 months?” I was shocked at such a response, … Read More

Adoption and My First Anxiety Attack

By Tom Rees, on October 13th, 2011%

My response to a group invitation; Nov., 2009

My name is Tom Rees and I have been invited to introduce myself to the group. All of life’s other “stuff” you can find on my Linked page; I joined you all because I was adopted at birth and thought it would be interesting to share with other adoptees or people in the field.

I was 6 years old when I understood what adoption meant. My … Read More

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Adoption — At 50 years old I still have residual feelings

By Tom Rees, on September 16th, 2011%

I wrote the following in response to someone’s comments in an adoption group I am a member of on Linked In, commenting on how adoption affects people throughout their lives in some cases:

I, too am adopted and have reunited with my birth mother — who ended up marrying my birth father and having two more kids –so I have a full brother and a full sister. My birth father died before I found them. … Read More

The unseen link between depression, anxiety and addiction.

By Tom Rees, on July 15th, 2011%

Just as a “normal person” — if there is such a person — might have come home after work that day and said “Honey, I just had a rough day”, or told a buddy that Friday “Man, I had a rough week”, there was a day I was saying to whomever I could find who would listen, albeit tongue in cheek, “Man, I’ve had a rough eight years”. But I meant it. Still hospitalized, I … Read More

Depression creeps up on you. If you are not having fun – don’t let time fly by!

By Tom Rees, on July 12th, 2011%

BACKGROUND

Depression affects over 20 million people per year, or over 8% of the U.S. (defined as having at least 1 major depressive episode in the past year.) That is an unbelievable statistic in terms of it being almost 1 in 10 people. Out of the 44 million people a year affected by some mental illness, according to the National Institute of Mental Health, almost half the events involved depression.

I could cite further facts, … Read More