RAD Reflections

There's no straight-forward reactive attachment disorder treatment to heal the wounds of early trauma. Learn from other families' trials.

Just like parents can't love away cancer, they can't erase the impacts of early trauma with a "good home". Yet, that is the expectation.

Reactive attachment disorder notoriously strains relationships due to its confusing nature. This RAD mom struggled with her own mom.

We can't solve a problem until we recognize it. And reactive attachment disorder is a big problem, whether or not we choose to believe it.

Children with reactive attachment disorder have special needs. But others don't see it. So parents are left alone to create their "village".

At some point in our journey, most of us parenting a child with reactive attachment disorder find unsupported. How did the system fail us?

Move to keep us in front of those working with traumatized families. So those charged with doing good can do better. To give parents voice.

A mom-perspective of Navigating RAD 21, a first-ever conference especially for parents of kids with reactive attachment disorder.

In two-parent homes, where one parent stays at home and is the more primary caregiver, the other parent often sees a very different picture.

While all kids with reactive attachment disorder need effective therapy, some find relief much faster with the help of the right medication.

Healthy kids often become a byproduct of their sibling’s reactive attachment disorder; they also become traumatized.

What people assume from the outside is often very different from the reality of living with reactive attachment disorder.

Despite what some people think, children don't simply outgrow the impact of trauma. It's not a phase, it's reactive attachment disorder.

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