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.

the degradation of a boy’s mental health

I post frequently about the things that David does, and the things that we deal with.  You really need to know, I don’t post everything. It is sad to watch the gradual decline of a person’s mental health.  His mental stability.  For so long, everything was fairly smooth.  It’s just in the last couple of weeks that things have really started to go downhill. With children, we have great hopes in their future.  With David, we have great hopes for the future.  Some days I dream that I am leaving a prison where I was visiting him.  Having been to prisons to visit my step-brother, I know what the visiting areas are like, so it wasn’t like I was an inmate being released. My fear? My biggest fear is that one day, he will do something so drastic, so severe, that there will be no attempting to save him.  I

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I am confused…

Today, David and I had been having a great day.  Laughing. The phone rang, since I had my hands in dishwater I asked him to answer it.  He put it on speakerphone. I asked him to hold it close, instead he accused me of not wanting him around. How does, hold the phone equal “you don’t want me around.”? I asked him to explain it, and he doesn’t know how to. He went from nice to mean in the space of a couple of minutes.  and continued to be ornery mean for 20 minutes. I wish I understood, as then I could avoid whatever set him off.  Sadly, with mental illness, we may never know. Tweet #fighting4answrs

a brand new day

Today is a brand new day for David. This morning, he was complaining of being stiff and sore.  So I talked about the work that his muscles did to support his body yesterday while he was manic.   He said he doesn’t like it. In talking with David today, I learned that he was upset that he was going to be in trouble for riding in a vehicle, being in a place he wasn’t supposed to be and for borrowing garden tools.    He rode in a friends truck, he was outside the boundary established for him to be in, so that we know where to look for him, and he took a cultivator and garden rake without permission. For the record, until this morning, I knew about the boundary issue, but not where he ended up telling me about.  I knew the garden tools were a possibility. So much behavior for

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