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.

I feel like I am missing a piece of myself

We admitted David today.  No emotion from him.  No sad tears, no “please don’t make me stay.” He wanted two things, a bed, and food. We had to sign a bunch of papers.  I mean a bunch of papers.  Went over all the rules, explained that even though he is a resident there, he is still a part of our family. On the one hand, I am happy for the rest of the family to get some peace.  On the other hand, I feel torn that we had to admit him there in the first place. All in all, it looks to be a nice place, but face it, it is an institution. We limited his contact to less than 20 people outside of the facility.  Every last one of them is family. He has less than 10 people he can call.  The rest have to call him. Please, say

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Placement begins tomorrow

Just learned today that David will be entering placement tomorrow afternoon. Please keep him in your thoughts and prayers as we move forward with this next level of care in his life. I pray that we are doing the right thing, and believe in my heart that it is.  At this point, I can’t ask for more.   Tweet #fighting4answrs

visited David today

Stopped at the psych unit to see David tonight.  He was being so good that I didn’t stay long. He and some of the other patients were playing games.  It is rare when David sits still long enough to do anything, so I stayed long enough to give him a hug and let him know that we would see him tomorrow. A part of me wishes that we could bring him right home, he would be good for a day or two.  But then, all of the old behaviors would start up again.  Then, we would be back where we started. For now, I will for sure take the positive.  David deserves it. Related articles david isn’t going to placement today (whynotfathers.com) Full Mood David (whynotfathers.com) stealing from school (whynotfathers.com) i wonder how long (whynotfathers.com) Tweet #fighting4answrs