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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.

2014 New Resolutions

I don’t normally make resolutions, but thought I would document some of my thoughts on what the new year might bring. Explore all possibilities for returning our son to his home state. Explore ways to limit the pain my family is going through while dealing with mental illness of our son. Advocate for the other “Meth Babies” and kids like David who need services in our state, and to not be shipped off to other locations. I won’t hold grudges against those who won’t help kids like David.  I will educate them on the error of their ways. I will be a stronger parent to my kids.  They have a say in our family as well, what affects David, also affects them. I will work on completing my book about parenting a child with reactive attachment disorder so that others may benefit from reading about our experiences. I will remember

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Tags: ADHD, adoption, autism, autism support, behavior, bipolar, Conditions and Diseases, Dadchat, DadRT, family, father, frustration, Mental disorder, mental health, obsessive compulsive disorder, OCD, ODD, parenting, RAD, reactive attachment disorder, Special_Happens ·

Move date confirmed

On January 16th, mom and I will be moving our son to a facility 500 miles from home. During this process we have more questions than we have answers. What happens next year if this new facility decides they are no longer appropriate for David? It took a long time to get David comfortable with the teaching staff, shouldn’t we have an IEP meeting with the new school prior to placement so that the new school can be made aware of what works and doesn’t work with him? Will he miss us, as much as we miss him? When can he move back to his home state?  Who decides that he is stable enough for that to happen? What a way to ring in the new year! Related articles A win, no matter how you look at it (whynotfathers.com) Bed Available! (whynotfathers.com) tentative move date scheduled for David (whynotfathers.com) A

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Tags: ADHD, adoption, autism, bipolar, Dadchat, DadRT, Mental disorder, mental health, obsessive compulsive disorder, OCD, ODD, reactive attachment disorder, Special_Happens ·

tentative move date scheduled for David

We received notice today that we can move David on the 9th.  That doesn’t work for our family, as we have other obligations for our children.  So we asked for the 16th of January.  We will know New Year’s Eve if that will work or not. Sad to think about moving him 500 miles. Pray that we are doing the correct thing.  The right thing.  And that David will benefit from this. Tweet #fighting4answrs

Tags: ADHD, adoption, autism, behavior, bipolar, Dadchat, DadRT, life, Mental disorder, mental health, obsessive compulsive disorder, OCD, reactive attachment disorder, Special_Happens ·

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