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.

a smile, and a wakeup

My sleep schedule is messed up because of illness.  I might sleep 14 hours today and none tomorrow.  I sleep when my body lets me. Today, I was in the middle of a rem cycle, and the phone rang.  How awesome that David called two days in a row.  He asked if I was sleeping, and I told him, “I am never too asleep to talk to you.” I don’t know how long he will continue these calls, but any interruption in my day is welcome when it comes to him.  Yesterday he called twice. Loving it. During each conversation, he never stayed on one topic for more than a minute or two.   Tweet #fighting4answrs

the phone call

… sounds ominous doesn’t it? I just had the phone call to end all phone calls. Out of the blue, I get a call from the facility where David lives. I am thinking… uh-oh, David got put in a hold or something. Nope. Not even close. It was David calling, “do you have time to talk?” Anytime buddy was my response. We proceeded to talk for 20 minutes.  My heart is flowing with happiness.  He never calls at random like this.  It was so unexpected. Related articles Visited David tonight in Psych Unit. (whynotfathers.com) Tweet #fighting4answrs

a visit with David, in the end a success

Mom and I went to visit David tonight.  We gave ourselves an hour.  It takes an hour to get to the residence, and an hour to get home.  On a school night, we left the other kids at home. We were excited to see him.  He is out of the psych ward and back at the residential facility.  Since David doesn’t call, and things have been hectic with the other kids, it has been a good month since Mom has seen him.  We do call there, but he is usually doing activity when we call.   And then he forgets to return the call. Within 5 minutes of arrival David decided he was done. He wanted to go outside and play.  Tried to compromise and when that didn’t work, he got mean.  He pushed every button he could until he got mom so upset she was in tears.  I tried to

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