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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.

Did you really just ask me that???

Interesting conversation with the social worker where David is in care. The solution that the social worker at the hospital gave me was to call the cops if he becomes aggressive. I explained that the community depends on the Sheriff department for our police department and that they might have to come from their main office or further away. So their response time could be delayed up to half an hour depending on the number of deputies on shift. She asked if there was any way I could get them to respond faster. So I mentioned the miles involved. 35 miles to the main office, 50 miles to the south border of the county, that kind of thing.. “Can you get them to respond faster???”  she asked. I actually pulled the phone away from my ear and looked at incredulously… like maybe she could see the look on my face

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Tags: in-care, mental health, prtf ·

Seeing David

Each night that David is in care at the mental health unit, we go see him. We are not greeted with any emotion. He never cries when we leave. He is content to live there and visit home. When he comes home, knives will be locked up. Chemicals will be locked up. We are perusing closed circuit cameras for the main areas of our house. When behaviors start, we will record them as much as we can. We are literally turning parts of our home into a jail. How sad is that? But.. he is our son.  He will always be our son.  No amount of mental illness will take that part of him away from us, his family. David, you will likely never read this… please know that we love you very much.   Tweet #fighting4answrs

Tags: acute care, hospital, mental health ·

Friday discharge

I noticed some tenderness Monday and Tuesday on my right side rib cage.  So today I went to the clinic. I have bruised muscles/ribs on that side.  Happened Sunday evening during the fracas with David. Lovely.  Plus, my blood pressure is elevated.  (I have experienced heart events in the past). On the other side of the coin.  Talked with the social worker from the hospital. David is scheduled to be released on Friday and I am supposed to let her know what time I will be picking him up. I asked “what about the safety of my family?” “You should lock up your knives.” she stated matter-of-factly. She also stated that “you should contact the cops if you feel that you can’t handle him.” So… What do I do with that? Have a call into our care team.  Mom and I are expanding our alternating coverage of him while he

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Tags: assault, crisis, mental health ·

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