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.

Full Mood David

David is in full form this morning. I feel bad for his teacher having to deal with him all day today. It is really too bad, the morning started out great, but then I asked him to stop playing with his clean clothes, they are in a suitcase that we have packed in case he goes to the care facility today. He got all upset with me and started throwing around papers, calling the dog names, and generally being obstinate.  Not a good way to start the day.  Now our house looks like a hurricane hit it. He didn’t have his binder with him when he came home from school yesterday, so I imagine that I will get a call from the teacher asking where it is. Related articles stealing from school (whynotfathers.com) Tweet #fighting4answrs

sleep talking

David talks in his sleep. We carry on regular conversations every night.  Mostly because I have learned that if I don’t respond when he is talking, he will wake up and it takes forever to get him to go back to sleep. Tonight, he wanted to know how to describe the apple products.  Since I don’t know if he was talking about fruit or a computer, I told him to just describe it the best way he could.  So he started describing a red Apple Macbook.  Talking about how pretty it was. Times like this just overwhelm me with love for him. He is so cute. And then he wakes up and another person comes out to play. Tweet #fighting4answrs

Basic Service Levels – Universal Application

Our state has something called a “Universal Application.”  This is the application that anyone who requires care in the state system would use to access that care.  We filled one out last year for residential care for David, and another one again this year for his upcoming placement. Now.  That application collects a lot of information. How difficult would it be to include basic information like hospital admission dates in the data that is collected? For that matter, how difficult would it be to make it an electronic form that I could fill out and save on my computer? The reason that I am, for lack of a better word, grumpy about service levels is that the care facility David is going into could have asked me for all of the extra information that they needed a week ago when they called to let me know that he had a

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