1176 miles. From home, to the residential facility and back again. 4 days. The thing about driving. It gives a person a lot of time to think. Ruminations about fatherhood, about things that a person might have done differently for David. I keep coming back to one inalienable truth. We did what we had to do. Not…
Category: attachment disorder
Was mental illness Blaec Lammers’ only crime? – CNN.com
Has society gone too far in de-institutionalization? Prison is not the place for our son to get any sort of help with his mental illness. Do I agree with the parents? Yes. They were afraid for their son’s life. Did he deserve prison for this purchase? Do we pro-actively lock away people because they might…
Some times, we just have to look up.
We are trying to get David to see more positive things in himself. Right now, any time someone pays him a compliment he pushes it away. We want to get him to be more accepting of compliments. It also seems that when he starts doing good, he sabotages his own treatment plan. So in theory…