Tag Archives: Attachment disorder

The Liability

Liability. Dictionary.com defines it as: noun, plural liabilities. 1.   liabilities. moneys owed; debts or pecuniary obligations (opposed to assets ). Accounting. liabilities as detailed on a balance sheet, especially in relation to assets and capital. 2.  something disadvantageous: His lack of education is his biggest liability. 3.  Also,liableness. the state or quality of being liable: When David is discharged in 48 hours, we may have a period where things are good.  Great even.  A period where there is no violence.  His previous history shows us that this won’t last.   So what do we do? We are told that we need to call 911.  That is the extent of the safety plan at this point. He will come out of a facility where he had 24/7 support to home where I can’t provide that level of care. So knowing David like we know David.  When the volcano that is his temper

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the degradation of a boy’s mental health

I post frequently about the things that David does, and the things that we deal with.  You really need to know, I don’t post everything. It is sad to watch the gradual decline of a person’s mental health.  His mental stability.  For so long, everything was fairly smooth.  It’s just in the last couple of weeks that things have really started to go downhill. With children, we have great hopes in their future.  With David, we have great hopes for the future.  Some days I dream that I am leaving a prison where I was visiting him.  Having been to prisons to visit my step-brother, I know what the visiting areas are like, so it wasn’t like I was an inmate being released. My fear? My biggest fear is that one day, he will do something so drastic, so severe, that there will be no attempting to save him.  I

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Reactive Attachment Disorder – a diagnosis

Turns out, all this time I thought that David was diagnosed with RAD.  Nope. Well he is now.  Frustrating when people remove and add diagnoses without letting the family know. He has Autism, Borderline Personality Disorder, Bipolar, AdHd,  and quite a few others.  Reactive Attachment Disorder *RAD” is now one of his Axis I diagnoses. Received a referral to a child therapist. Received a referral to a Social Skills Play Group. The psychiatrist said “boy, he does talk a lot… when did that start?” My response was “he has been like this since the day he came home. Follow up every 30 days for the next while. One other thing of importance.  He is in the lower 18 percentile, for his weight.  this means that for his age and height, 82% of the population is more inline with the standard then he is. oh and he is at risk of

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