The answer should be yes. Not "how can I get my loved one help?"

Author Archives: carl

>Sad

>Tomorrow, m will be placed in psych. I have been there myself, I don’t want to do this, but if I don’t how long before he hurts someone or himself?

Today he is suspended from school for stealing, threatening a couple of classmates, and his teacher. I brought him home, and he stole a pen from me. Then lied about stealing it. Said it was a pencil that his teacher gave him. So frustrated right now. Had to tell the doc that one way or another, M was going to be hospitalized. We need to get him more help than I can give him.

>Suspended

>M has been suspended from school. Got caught stealing from his teacher. Then threatened a classmate. So he got suspended. We are looking, at immediate placement in a medical care facility. Not sure what else to do. Yesterday he threatened his teacher again, and last night he threatened me, and threw a box fan at me. I am more afraid of him hurting himself than I am of him hurting me. Wish us luck.

>Self Esteem

>We are hugely worried about M and his self-esteem.

In a conversation this morning, he seemed resigned to being in naughty.

To be fair, he is naughty an awful lot, and he knows that isn’t right. The standard medical solution is to give him more meds. I don’t like that. so we are working on alternative methods. I hate the idea of him being on restriction all of the time. Yesterday we lifted all restrictions and let him start over with a clean slate. For the most part it went pretty good. there were times, but a quick 10 or 20 minute restriction is better than an all day one.