Category Archives: Mental Health – Child

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the greatest treasure

David turned thirteen years old last Tuesday.  On July 28th, will be 11 years since his adoption was finalized.  How quickly the time goes. For David’s birthday, we went out to the facility he lives in to visit him.  Most of the family went.  We arrived late Monday, spent Tuesday, Wednesday and part of Thursday visiting David. He wasn’t with us all of the time, just in 2 or 3 hour spurts.  It was good to see him.  He has grown so tall. The hard part wasn’t just in seeing him, it was the fear.  I could sense it in his siblings, though they all did their best to hide it.  I know Mom, I and Aunt all felt that fear. Before we even arrived at the facility we had a plan in place to lock up all of our technology while David was with us. Nothing like giving him

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a coming birthday

So David has a birthday coming up.  he will be a teen. In my quest to get Medicaid reinstated, he was given something called a recipient liability. He has a recipient liability because he has an income.  (SSI and an adoption subsidy).  it isn’t more than 900 a month, and the subsidy isn’t his.   anyway.  I am not upset about the recipient liability. The reason that he has a recipient liability is because he lives independently. Yeah.  Because he lives independently.  he will be 13. How many 13 year old kids do you know that live independently? He is in a psychiatric residential treatment facility. Tweet #fighting4answrs

finding your true path

i am adopted, and had a number of step dads while I was a kid.  Looking back I can see the hallmark indicators of reactive attachment disorder (RAD) in myself.  Not as bad as our David, but still there.  I am the way I am today because of two reasons. A probation officer gave me two choices.  One was prison, the other was a group home for teens.  (I chose the group home) I attended anger management classes, because I knew I couldn’t live my life the way that I was. To say that I was angry as a teen would be a bit of an understatement.  To say that I was mean to my family would also be an understatement.  I make no excuses for my behavior.  Can’t take it back, so the only way is to move forward. A big part of my growth away from the RAD

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