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.

Master of Deception

David was in safe bed last week.  One of his assignments was to write a detailed listing all of his hiding places. I don’t believe by any means that it is a comprehensive list, but it gives us a good place to start. It will also give us ideas of where else to look. So today we are going through the list.  Wish us luck. Like Willy Wonka says “Little surprises around every corner, but nothing dangerous.” Why do I call him a Master of Deception? He came home on Saturday.  By Sunday he had stolen 2 cell phones, a Kindle, a key, plus food that he hid under his bed. Like I told David, we know he has a problem stealing.  The tantrums that follow him being caught stealing are what makes everything so much worse.  Not that stealing is ok. The safe bed is going to have him

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What do you mean?

This has become David’s favorite saying when confronted with a behavior.  Confronted isn’t the best way to describe how we deal with his behaviors, but it works for the purposes of this post. “David, what are you doing upstairs?”  I ask. “What do you mean?” he responds. “David, why did you steal my keys?”  I ask. “What do you mean?” he says. For everything that he is confronted on, his response is nearly automatic.  “What do you mean?” Most of the time, just in case he isn’t understanding what we say, we explain it to him.   Another odd thing happened tonight.  He took his meds with water, just like always.  They immediately came right back out. Immediately.  Thankfully we were in the kitchen when it happened.  See, he thinks that if he is throwing up, he won’t have to go to safe bed tomorrow.  Little does he know that

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Lies, Lies, Lies

Does he not think that we are going to catch him in these lies? David came home from the safe bed. One of the rules of the place is that he is not allowed off campus.  AT ALL.  For any reason. So he came home with a story about how he went to Menard’s with staff and two residents.  The staff spent 15 dollars on a remote control for him. Yeah, let me check on the veracity of your story little buddy. I wonder if we can get him a job as a politician.   Tweet #fighting4answrs