We is just me, Frank Albrecht.
I have a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins and am certified nationally as a Clinical Mental Health Counselor and in Maryland as a Certified Professional Counselor. I have been a school teacher and a college professor, as well as a counselor. I now work with psychiatric emergencies with children and adolescents, with major mental illness and chronic depression among adults at a county mental health clinic, at the same clinic with teenagers who have a variety of problems, and in private practice with behavioral management of pain and other somatic problems.
My daughter, Sarah, 15, has Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, neurally mediated hypotension and chronic fatigue syndrome. She has also had several kidney stones. When she began to have these problems in September of 1995, her mother, Michelle, and I became interested in finding information and support for parents. But we couldn't find very much, and that little was very scattered in many sites There was a lot for adult victims of the DD, and some aimed at the children themselves, but not much just for parents. I used to write a newspaper family column, and I'm online a lot, so it was natural for me to think about starting an online support center.
Now, in the last days of 1997, there are a number of resources available, many of them listed on my main page.
I do have support and help from The Chesapeake Free-Net, serving the Eastern Shore of Maryland, for which I wish to express my appreciation.
To message me, hit this link: Frank Albrecht.
For your information, my address is franka@skipjack.bluecrab.org