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.

An update on David’s recent crisis

David is stable.  He is still under the suicide watch and will continue to be for the next couple of days.  Tomorrow he sees the psych team, and Tuesday we meet with the therapist. Because of the number of staff that need to work with David at any one point, they didn’t have enough in the residence hall that he was in, so they moved him to a new lodge for the night and through today. Thank you everyone for your prayers. Carl Related articles A threat of suicide and a prayer (whynotfathers.com) David in crisis mode (whynotfathers.com) David in Crisis Part 2 (whynotfathers.com) Tweet #fighting4answrs

A threat of suicide and a prayer

This morning, I received a phone call from staff.  David is in crisis. It is more than that.  Yesterday two young men got into a fight or something, and David decided to get involved.  As a result he lost all privileges.  Has to spend 20 minutes of every half hour with staff. They usually start their Saturday’s with basketball, which is David’s favorite activity.  As a result of the restriction, that was not available.  In response to finding this out, David got very upset and said he was going to kill himself. In response, he now spends all of his time with staff.  He is under 24 hour observation.  He is prone to being searched at any time so that staff can make sure that he doesn’t have anything that can use to hurt himself.  At night when he sleeps, he sleeps in the same area where the staff work

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Is it censorship or good parenting?

In light of the recent headlines regarding such “stars” as Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus and others, is it considered censorship to not allow my children to watch their videos, or listen to their music? For example.  Recently it has been alleged that the flight crew on Bieber’s plane had to go on oxygen because the air inside of the aircraft was so full of pot smoke that they were afraid they wouldn’t pass a urine analysis. Can you imagine? It has also been reported that Bieber’s dad was on the flight. Would it be different if marijuana was legalized across the country? I don’t know.  What I do know is that I can’t see idolizing some kid because he is famous, especially when he puts the lives of those around him at risk. Miley Cyrus is trying to do what with a wrecking ball?  I think that is the least

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