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.

It was all a lie

David wants desperately to be trusted.  He wants us to believe him. On Friday, he came home from school all excited because he was voted onto the student council at his school. Today, he informs us that it was all a lie.  Nothing was true. So i have confirmation emails going out to his school. I want to believe him, but if he will lie about something as innocuous as student council, what else will he lie about? Since the therapist left, he has been slowly degrading in his mental state.  Behaviors are increasing.  Not sure what that is about.  The therapist did take him for a walk, and according to him, was asking if he had any concerns about living at home. I want to believe what he says, but it is difficult. Soon, he will be in bed, asleep and we can start a new day tomorrow. Wish

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Mr School Van Driver

Good morning my friends.  Hope this note finds you well. Yesterday was an excellent day. This morning, David was in full on mode.  Jumping from topic to topic so quickly that we couldn’t keep up.  In the course of 30 minutes, I bet he talked about 50 different things.  When he is like this there isn’t a lot that we can do except give him his ADHD meds and pray that they take hold before he gets to school. I imagine that the kids in the van had to tell him many times to stop talking.  Mr School Van Driver, my apologies.  Be happy that you only had to listen to it for 57 miles. That is all for this morning.  Tonight, if my legs cooperate, David and I are going for a bike ride.  More on that later. Carl   Tweet #fighting4answrs

wishes and dreams

I dream of a time when we don’t have to worry about him as much as we do.  Granted as a parent, part of us will always worry about our kids, but when you have a child like David, it is increased ten fold, a hundred fold. Today he came home from the mental health unit.  We didn’t even get out of the hospital before he was starting with behavior.  Playing with the elevator, not listening, moving things around that were on a shelf.  You know, child like behavior, and in some cases behavior of typical teen.  I get it, I do.  But considering where we had just come from, one would think that he would be on his very best behavior. I made a quick stop to pick up a part, and instructed him to not touch anything while I was in the store.  Came out to find he

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