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.

frustrated, disbelief, sadness

I alternate between disbelief, anger and sadness. It wasn’t our primary choice to place David in his current residence.  It was the only option available at the time because his previous placement, “didn’t feel they were the best place for him and that he needed a more restricted environment.” So now, someone thinks that we don’t really want David in our lives.  Nothing could be further from the truth.  If I thought that David was stable enough to be home permanently, he would be.  You wouldn’t be reading this, and we wouldn’t be bothered by the fact that he is 500 miles from home. So what can we do?  Today, I called someone within our schools who we have been at odds with in the past regarding David and thanked them for supporting us.  Yes.  Sometimes support comes from the places we least expect it. If driving out to his

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What if I said David might be coming home soon…

So, it has been a while since I last posted. Really not a lot to report about David.  He has changed little.  Except he isn’t yet showing the aggressive behaviors that he has in the past.  But it has only been 4 months, in his current placement, so I think that it is only a matter of time. We have a monthly staffing for David that involves the whole team.  Today I was late getting on the call, had car trouble and while I had my cell phone with me, I didn’t have the contact number for the conference system. After the call was over, I contacted our care coordinator to see what I had missed. 1)  Medicaid is only approving 30 days right now, of care, because they think that he could be served just as well at home. 2)  Psychiatrist asked if “mom and dad want David to

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a setup for failure?

There hasn’t been much to report in regards to David.  He has been doing well, and by all reports is working his program.  Yesterday we had an IEP for him in the morning, and then his monthly treatment plan meeting in the afternoon.  At the second meeting, David indicated that he had reached the next level in his program, Bronze III.  Which means he has been doing really well. Then he said, “I have a feeling I will be dropping a level soon.” Today I got a call.  Not that he has been dropped a level, but that he is on an aggression plan. Evidently he hit his primary. A toy went missing, and David admitted taking it. He had his room stripped of everything except his bed, and his bedding. He wanted to file a grievance, and when he wasn’t able to immediately do so, he got upset.  Staff

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