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.

travelling to see David, a sadness.

We live on the great plains of our country.  Northern Great Plains.  we are about 550 miles from the residential facility where David lives. I wish we had train service between here and there.  The nearest depot to his residence is like 5 hours. the last Amtrak went into Billings, MT in 1979.  With the cost of fuel the way it is, I wonder if they would reestablish it… probably not. for those who recommend bus travel, my body wouldn’t do well sitting in one place for that length of time. ah well, car it is. the kids are putting every coin they can find into the piggy bank for us to go see him.  even offered their birthday money. makes my heart sad that I can’t do better.  But my disability check only goes so far. Tweet #fighting4answrs

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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