Category Archives: Mental Health – Child

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You are like night staff

David told me last night that I was like “night staff”. He told me this after I explained why I stay up all night with him. You see, David tried to convince me that he would sleep through the night and not cause trouble. Yeah, pardon me buddy, I don’t believe that for a second. As much as he frustrates me some days, I have to admire his intelligence.  He is pretty creative in how he puts things together. His perception of reality, at times, seems skewed though.  He thinks that everything that happens is a personal attack on him. He also claims that other people are out to frame him when he is accused of stealing an item from another family member. At safe bed he blamed the boy across the hall from him.  At home he blames his next oldest brother. Today is the first day in two

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We Brought David Home

We brought David home for a couple of days before he goes to residential care. I can see now that outcome wasn’t what we had hoped.  He has done nothing but steal, lie, yell and generally be combative since we brought him home.  The only time we haven’t had to be hyper-vigilant is when he is sleeping, but even then we can’t turn our backs on him, as it is like he has a sixth sense about it and will wake up and get into things that he isn’t allowed to be touching. David goes to safe bed on Thursday.  I hope that we can get through the next couple of days without any harm coming to the rest of the family.  Either emotional or mental.  At 11, David can say and do some pretty hurtful things. For example, his sister spent most of the day playing with him, doing

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One Hour

One Hour. Sixty Minutes. That is how long it took after David got home from safe bed before he stole something. “I found it…” “I don’t know how that got in my pocket” At safe bed, he was evidently upset with staff.  He had to eat in his bedroom, as he didn’t have privileges to eat with everyone else.  So, he put all of his food down a heat register.  Tomato soup.  Indian Taco. Yum. When asked why?  He responded… “I was feeding the pet rats.” Tweet #fighting4answrs