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Category Archives: Mental Health – Child

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Placement begins

Today, David was placed in a psychiatric residential treatment facility.  He was a bit nervous, but hid it well.

Seems like a rather nice facility.

Hopefully, he won’t be discharged against doctor’s orders again.

For treatment to be successful, the decision to keep a patient in care shouldn’t be up to an insurance company.

It is going to take time for our family to return to pre-chaos life.  As much as we love having David in our home, we really don’t like the behaviors.  In time, his siblings will feel like they don’t need to hide in their rooms.

The current placement is an hour from our home so we can have frequent visits to him.  The nice thing too is that we have family in the city, so we can couple the visit to David with a visit to other family.

Wish David luck.

a timeline tip

300px-Light_shining2One added benefit to blogging about our son and his mental health illnesses, is that it also gives me a timeline of some of his behaviors.  Of course, I don’t document everything here.  But this is a good baseline for everything that he has been through.

So, for example, when a facility asks me for two weeks of behaviors coupled with the dates that they occurred, I don’t have to look far.  I  can come here and review two weeks worth of posts and have pretty much everything.  Is it everything?  Like I said previously, not by a long shot.

What some entries do is trigger memories of other lesser events.

I guess the point I am making here, is document.  Document.  Document!

Write down every behavior that is not right for your home.  Write down that the child argued about his coat, in fact threw a fit because he couldn’t wear a heavy winter coat outside when it was 50 degrees outside.  Write down that the child refused to eat meals.  Write down that when asked to be quiet they persisted in making every noise or activity possible to generate ire in the entire family.  Write down that no matter how horrible they are plugged up with allergies they won’t listen to you when you tell them to put the cat down.

When it comes to insurance companies and facilities, one can never have “too much” documentation.

Don’t spend every second writing things down, because then you forget to live and enjoy life with your family.  Because believe me, nothing is more important than the family you are trying to help.

It was all a lie

10-inconvenienceDavid wants desperately to be trusted.  He wants us to believe him.

On Friday, he came home from school all excited because he was voted onto the student council at his school.

Today, he informs us that it was all a lie.  Nothing was true.

So i have confirmation emails going out to his school.

I want to believe him, but if he will lie about something as innocuous as student council, what else will he lie about?

Since the therapist left, he has been slowly degrading in his mental state.  Behaviors are increasing.  Not sure what that is about.  The therapist did take him for a walk, and according to him, was asking if he had any concerns about living at home.

I want to believe what he says, but it is difficult.

Soon, he will be in bed, asleep and we can start a new day tomorrow.

Wish him luck.