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 new school year – for David too

well, after being largely awake the last two and a half days, the kids start school today.  Even David.  Yesterday we got a call from the Superintendent indicating that if we got all of the paperwork in, David could start the day school program at the residential facility that we applied to for long term placement. So the school district hired a driver.  It is almost 60 miles one way to the school. The Superintendent is even riding along this first day. I told my wife that after I catch up on my sleep, I will get busy on my projects.  First is a website for Family Voices of North Dakota. I have to get that done.  Plus I have some stuff to do around the house.  But first, a little rest. Cheers!   Tweet #fighting4answrs

I want to believe

I want to believe him. I want to have faith that his meds are in his body. I want to not overdose him on melatonin and clonidine.  Is it even possible to overdose on melatonin? Experience tells me differently.   twice tonight he has spit up his meds.  10 mg of melatonin each time plus .2mg of clonidine each time, should have him sleeping for 8 hours minimum.  yet he is awake.  with a litany of excuses as to why. He had such a good day too.  plus he has some electronic device that I can periodically see the glow to, but I haven’t been able to actually catch him with it yet. Tweet #fighting4answrs

Danger, Danger

I am utterly exhausted. I am tired of being hyper-vigilant. I am tired of the constant lies about keeping meds in the body and not on the floor, or in the garbage. I am scared. Someone threatened to stab his sister yesterday with a pair of scissors.  Our experience has been that we can put him in the hospital, and they will send him home when he gets stabilized.  So I will spend today on the phone trying to find some place for him to go.  I can’t force my family to live like this. Why did he do this? She asked him to turn down his cd player.  and then when he moved it, she was going to give him the cord for it, but didn’t move or respond fast enough for him.  He evidently said, that he would get it from her “one way or another.”    

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