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.

what is David like?

In a lot of ways this could be David.  In some ways, I think David is worse.  In other ways, David could be better.  I haven’t been able to find a better example. I would welcome a conversation with the people who do these news stories. The problems we have in this country with Mental Illness aren’t going away any time soon.   here is a link to the school referenced in the video for my friends in New Mexico.  Pathways Academy Related articles A letter to my son. David. Mental Illness and magic Tweet #fighting4answrs

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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