Category Archives: Mental Health

Articles relating to mental health are in this category. Typically they will fall into one of two categories. Yours, or your child’s. Yes, your mental health is important.

news of the day. June 11, 2015

David is being really good today.  Following me like my shadow. I appreciate that he is trying.  As I survey my garage, I am discovering just what all has been lost because of David’s actions. Weedeater. Networking tools for installing data networks. Gasoline Screws by the box. It isn’t much, and I am sure that I will find more things missing.  Some of it isn’t missing, but David in his disregard for the property of others, dumped things out on the floor.  Then we had a big rain that flooded the floor of the garage and ruined things.  All because he managed to get a key made to unlock the garage door. In other news, I am working on a list of facilities for the Upper Great Plains and Rocky Mountain Region.  There are quite a few out there surprisingly.  Some except kids David’s age, others don’t.  Some except Medicaid,

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Visited David tonight

Visited David today.  He changed his story about my weed eater 3 times. So now we have a possible location for it. He got mom so frustrated that she moved away from the table.  Everything is blamed on some one else. His forging of the check happened because we don’t give him an allowance.  Never mind that he doesn’t do anything to earn an allowance. His theft of some items is because we don’t give him any money. Some neighbor game him 50 dollars to purchase a spark plug, and a spark plug tool.   I asked about the remaining funds, and he said that the spark plug cost all of the money to buy. We also learned of some of the places that are easy to steal from.  So I will be stopping at those stores tomorrow and talking with the owners. I told David that it is his destiny

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What do you want to hear?

Well. Just got off the phone with a social worker from the hospital where David is. I had to explain what “the boys hide in their rooms to feel safe from David” means. David told staff that he tells me things like “if you like, I can stab you with a knife” because he thinks that is what I want to hear. Why would I “want” to hear something like that? If he tells me things that he thinks I want to hear, wouldn’t it stand to reason that he would do the same thing in the mental health unit? Don’t get me wrong, we have and have had some pretty incredible social workers helping with David’s care.  But once in a while… you have to wonder. The social worker repeatedly informed me that they are an acute care facility and that we should make more use of the safe

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